[IRIS] HICSS-57: Minitrack Proposal Smart and Sustainable Mobility Ecosystems and Services

[Rossi Matti]

    Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 57: Minitrack Smart and Sustainable Mobility Ecosystems and Services
    (in Decision Analytics, Mobile Technologies and Service Science track)

    Minitrack chairs:
    Juho Lindman, Matti Rossi, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen


    HICSS-57: January 3-6, 2024| Waikiki, Hawaii

    Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2023

https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-57/decision-analytics-and-service-science/#smart-and-sustainable-mobility-services-and-ecosystems-minitrack

  Theme

Transportation is changing, and this change is driven by technology-driven trends: autonomy, connectivity, electrification, and diverse mobility business models of shared vehicles. At the same time, there is a drive towards more sustainable transportation. Digital platforms and services are essential for orchestrating smart and sustainable mobility ecosystems and related services: data that accurately represents, for instance, the location of passengers and service providers, weather, usage, and maintenance is a cornerstone for service design. Identification and communication systems that link specific physical things to specific digital addresses offer possibilities to communicate, transact, pay, build trust, sense and activate “things” from the internet – and design novel services based on this generated data. Autonomous vehicles, electric cars, and mobility-related sharing economy services build on platform thinking, as do many services reducing the need for travel. Furthermore, for these services to work, there is a need to analyze the ecosystems emerging around these services, as the benefits and platforms form complex webs.

Autonomous vehicles have been hailed as harbingers of new kinds of mobility and travel services. Autonomous cars seem to be further away from wider prevalence than expected a couple of years ago, but the data gathered for them and made available from, e.g. smart city initiatives and mobile devices provide great opportunities for different kinds of smart mobility services related to both private and public transportation. Also, shipping industry, especially in cargo shipping, has already many ongoing advanced projects and pilots, and in aviation, autonomous aircraft are being developed by several companies. In closed and hazardous environments, such as mines, autonomous vehicles are already working. Autonomous vehicles on land, in see, and air (including drones) are expected to decrease costs and increase efficiency and safety, but a host of regulatory, safety, legal, and security challenges are yet to be resolved.

More acutely, electric cars are increasingly embraced by car owners, and they require their own set of infrastructure and services. Full-scale charging infrastructure needs building, and it involves a lot of mobile services to support it. Some are simple, like applications that show the location and availability of charging stations, and some more complex, like payment systems for charging and - in the near future - for trading electricity stored in car batteries, which can be used in smart grids to balance peaks of consumption. Societal benefits of moving from fossil fuels to electricity in terms of reduction of pollution are pretty evident, but in addition to insufficient charging infrastructure, limited driving range, high costs and battery issues still act as barriers to wider acceptance.

At the same time, there is growing concerns about the sustainability of current practices of mobility and travel. Mobility-related sharing economy services as well as different types of fleet services, are seen as viable options for privately owned cars. Still, they have their own challenges, such as added congestion in cities, reconfiguring existing modes of (especially public) transportation, disrupting incumbent industries, and widening the power imbalance between the platform owners and “independent contractors.” These services require the ability to connect to these specific platforms and seem to be prone to solid location and availability-based network effects. Examples of these services are on one hand, Uber and Lyft type of services and, on the other hand, in the near future, autonomous transportation of people and cargo through fleets of autonomous vehicles on land, water and air.

At the same time concerns about business travel have become acute in many countries, and there are movements to limit work and leisure travel when possible. Could smart digital services and apps offer alternatives for travel, or could some services propose the best ways to limit the carbon footprint of travel?

In addition to using mobility value services, we are also interested in their development, design and service innovation. Furthermore, social, societal, and potential customer segmentation issues are of great interest. In this proposed minitrack, we take stock of what is the state of the art in current mobility services and service ecosystems and what is coming shortly.

As HICSS is addressing leading edge developments, we especially encourage submissions on new subareas, such as sustainable travel services, autonomous transportation services, and privacy and security concepts.

Relevant topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to):

·         Transportation ecosystems and services
·         Smart traffic services
·         Autonomous and connected vehicle development
·         Autonomous vehicle (land, sea, air) business models
·         User issues in different smart traffic services
·         Location-based services and business models related to mobility

·         The business value of transportation and mobility services

·         Data privacy and quality in mobility services

·         Data sharing and ownership issues hampering data utilization in mobility services

·         Sustainable travel services

·         Value added services for travelers (usage, location, maintenance data)

·         Business and societal issues related to autonomous vehicles (land, sea, air)

·         Technological challenges of adaptivity of services


    Mini-Track Chairs

        Juho Lindman (Primary Contact)
        University of Gothenburg
        juho lindman at ait.gu.se

        Matti Rossi
        Aalto University School of Business
        matti.rossi at aalto.fi

        Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen
        Aalto University School of Business
        virpi.tuunainen at aalto.fi


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        Matti Rossi
        Professor of Information Systems Science
        Aalto University School of Business
        Department of Information and Service Management
        P.O. Box 21220, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland

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