[IRIS] CfP HICSS-58: Smart and Sustainable Mobility Services and Ecosystems

Tue Mar 5 05:24:36 EST 2024

Call for Papers:
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 58 (HICSS-58): January 7-10, 2025, Big Island, Hawaii
Minitrack: Smart and Sustainable Mobility Services and Ecosystems (in Decision Analytics and Service Science track)

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2024
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Minitrack description:

Transportation is changing, and this change is driven by technology-enabled possibilities such as autonomy, connectivity, electrification, and diverse mobility business models of shared vehicles. At the same time, there is a growing push towards more sustainable transportation. Digital platforms are essential for orchestrating smart and sustainable mobility ecosystems and related services. The cornerstone of designing services on these platforms is data that accurately represents, for instance, the location of passengers and service providers, weather, usage, and maintenance. Identification and communication systems that link specific physical things to specific digital addresses offer possibilities to communicate, transact, build trust, sense, and activate “things” from the internet – paving the way for novel service designs based on the generated data. For instance, autonomous vehicles, electric cars, and ride-sharing services build on platform thinking, as do many services that reduce the need for travel altogether. 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 mobility and travel services. Autonomous cars seem to be further away from wide prevalence than expected a couple of years ago. Still, the data gathered for them and made available from, e.g., smart city initiatives and mobile devices provide excellent opportunities for different kinds of smart solutions for private and public transportation. Further, the shipping industry has many ongoing advanced projects and pilots (especially in cargo shipping), and several aviation companies are developing autonomous aircraft. Finally, autonomous vehicles already carry out most operations in closed and hazardous environments, such as mines. While autonomous vehicles on land, in sea, and air (including drones) are expected to decrease costs and increase efficiency and safety, 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.

Autonomous vehicles have been hailed as harbingers of new mobility and travel services. Autonomous cars seem to be further away from wide prevalence than expected a couple of years ago. Still, the data gathered for them and made available from, e.g., smart city initiatives and mobile devices provide excellent opportunities for different kinds of smart solutions for private and public transportation. Further, the shipping industry has many ongoing advanced projects and pilots (especially in cargo shipping), and several aviation companies are developing autonomous aircraft. Finally, autonomous vehicles already carry out most operations in closed and hazardous environments, such as mines. While autonomous vehicles on land, in sea, and air (including drones) are expected to decrease costs and increase efficiency and safety, a host of regulatory, safety, legal, and security challenges are yet to be resolved.

At the same time, there are growing concerns about the sustainability of platform-enabled transportation, mobility, and travel practices. Mobility-related sharing economy services as well as different types of fleet services, are seen as viable options for privately owned cars. Still, their growing popularity is associated with many societal problems, such as added congestion in cities, disruption of existing modes of (especially public) transportation, and the widening power imbalance between platform owners and their workforce of “independent contractors.” These services require their users to connect to specific platforms and seem prone to solid location and availability-based network effects. Concerns about business travel have also become acute in many countries, and there are movements to limit work and leisure travel when possible. Could smart digital services and apps offer considerable alternatives for travel or propose the best ways to limit the carbon footprint of travel?

In this minitrack, we seek new research describing smart mobility ecosystems and novel digital services for mobility. The submissions can be research papers, case studies, or practitioner reports on service development and its implications. We intend to take stock of state-of-the-art research on transportation/mobility/travel services and service ecosystems and provide an outlook on what is about to come. We especially encourage submissions on new subareas, such as sustainable travel services, autonomous transportation services, and privacy and security concepts. In addition to using transportation/mobility/travel services, we are also interested in their development, design, and service innovation. Furthermore, related social, societal, and potential customer segmentation issues are of great interest. Relevant topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to):

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

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Tapani Rinta-Kahila (Primary Contact), University of Queensland, t.rintakahila at uq.edu.au
Juho Lindman,  University of Gothenburg,  juho lindman at ait.gu.se
Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen, Aalto University School of Business, virpi.tuunainen at aalto.fi
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