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In recent years, shared mobility services have had a growing presence in cities all over the world. Developing methodologies to measure and evaluate the impacts of shared mobility has therefore become of critical importance for city authorities. This paper conducts a thorough review of the different types of methods that can be used for this evaluation and suggests a classification of them. The pros and cons of each method are also discussed. The added value of the paper is twofold; first, we provide a systematic recording of the state of the art and the state of the practice regarding the evaluation of the impacts of shared mobility, from the perspective of city authorities, reflecting on their role, needs, and expectations. Second, by identifying the existing gaps in the literature, we highlight the specific needs for research and practice in this field that can help society figure out the role of urban shared mobility.
Anastasia Roukouni; Gonçalo Homem De Almeida Correia. Evaluation Methods for the Impacts of Shared Mobility: Classification and Critical Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10504 .
AMA StyleAnastasia Roukouni, Gonçalo Homem De Almeida Correia. Evaluation Methods for the Impacts of Shared Mobility: Classification and Critical Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10504.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Roukouni; Gonçalo Homem De Almeida Correia. 2020. "Evaluation Methods for the Impacts of Shared Mobility: Classification and Critical Review." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10504.
Logistics and transport systems are complex systems for which sustainable innovations are urgently needed. Serious games are an acknowledged tool for training, learning, and decision making, as well as for helping to introduce innovative concepts for complex systems. Technological innovations for the transport domain that can improve sustainability are usually heavily dependent on the collaboration among actors. A simulation gaming approach can help these actors in understanding the challenges involved, and in finding solutions in a playful, interactive way. Our research approach includes a thorough literature review on games for innovation and collaboration in transport networks, and the development of two dedicated simulation games addressing sustainability innovations for the Port of Rotterdam, the largest seaport in Europe and one of the largest in the world. The two innovation cases are truck platooning and multi-sided digital platforms for barge transportation, both improving the sustainability of hinterland transportation. The games serve as instruments to reveal interactions and tensions among actors, contribute to the interpretation of their behavior, and eventually help all parties to reach a better understanding on how innovation adoption can be fostered, using an innovation ecosystem perspective. We are convinced that serious gaming, by providing a better understanding of the innovation process, will help the implementation of sustainability innovations in complex systems.
Anastasia Roukouni; Heide Lukosch; Alexander Verbraeck; Rob Zuidwijk. Let the Game Begin: Enhancing Sustainable Collaboration among Actors in Innovation Ecosystems in a Playful Way. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8494 .
AMA StyleAnastasia Roukouni, Heide Lukosch, Alexander Verbraeck, Rob Zuidwijk. Let the Game Begin: Enhancing Sustainable Collaboration among Actors in Innovation Ecosystems in a Playful Way. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (20):8494.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Roukouni; Heide Lukosch; Alexander Verbraeck; Rob Zuidwijk. 2020. "Let the Game Begin: Enhancing Sustainable Collaboration among Actors in Innovation Ecosystems in a Playful Way." Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8494.
There is an indisputable gap between the conceptualization and introduction of innovation and the actual and effective implementation of innovations in the complex sociotechnical system of transport and logistics throughout Europe. With our research we investigate the role of simulation games as an instrument to understand the dynamics around innovation processes in this system, by the means of literature review and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders of selected innovation cases within the Port of Rotterdam. The aim of our study is to gather valuable insights into how simulation games can be used to handle the extremely critical issue of effectively implementing innovation in the transport and logistics sector. It is thus expected to stimulate and enhance interaction among actors on policy level, by highlighting the potential advantages of using the approach of simulation games when the implementation of innovation is in discuss.
Anastasia Roukouni; Heide Lukosch; Alexander Verbraeck. Simulation Games to Foster Innovation: Insights from the Transport and Logistics Sector. Translational Systems Sciences 2019, 157 -165.
AMA StyleAnastasia Roukouni, Heide Lukosch, Alexander Verbraeck. Simulation Games to Foster Innovation: Insights from the Transport and Logistics Sector. Translational Systems Sciences. 2019; ():157-165.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Roukouni; Heide Lukosch; Alexander Verbraeck. 2019. "Simulation Games to Foster Innovation: Insights from the Transport and Logistics Sector." Translational Systems Sciences , no. : 157-165.
The use of participatory techniques in the field of transport is coming to the forefront recently. In this frame, eight co-creation workshops and five online crowdsourcing campaigns took place in Thessaloniki, Southern Tuscany, Rotterdam/The Hague, and Frankfurt, from which many innovative ideas to enhance Public Transport were generated by citizens. A simple list of innovations would not be very useful for Public Transport Operators, as they cannot implement all of them at once. There was an obvious need for their ranking and this is the purpose of this paper. The ranking was realized with the most used Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis method in transportation research, i.e. the Analytic Hierarchy Process, using three criteria: Feasibility, Utility, and Innovativeness. An online questionnaire was distributed to experts, using a modified snowball sampling technique, which yielded 97 completed questionnaires. Utility (42.90%) was found to be the most important criterion, followed by Feasibility (40.10%), and Innovativeness (17.00%). Four lists of innovations were derived, ranked with respect to a) all three examined criteria, b) Feasibility, c) Utility, and d) Innovativeness. The highest ranked innovation for a) and c) was found to be Mobility as a Service and platform with real-time travel, comfort, and multi-modal information; for b) City marketing from a Public Transport perspective; and for d) Advanced e-ticketing system. The results revealed which of the innovations are the most promising and provide valuable insight into how to integrate innovation with Public Transport to make it more attractive. Public Transport Operators may use the results according to the peculiarities of their city and the importance they give to Feasibility, Utility, and Innovativeness.
Dimitrios Nalmpantis; Anastasia Roukouni; Evangelos Genitsaris; Afroditi Stamelou; Aristotelis Naniopoulos. Evaluation of innovative ideas for Public Transport proposed by citizens using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). European Transport Research Review 2019, 11, 22 .
AMA StyleDimitrios Nalmpantis, Anastasia Roukouni, Evangelos Genitsaris, Afroditi Stamelou, Aristotelis Naniopoulos. Evaluation of innovative ideas for Public Transport proposed by citizens using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). European Transport Research Review. 2019; 11 (1):22.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDimitrios Nalmpantis; Anastasia Roukouni; Evangelos Genitsaris; Afroditi Stamelou; Aristotelis Naniopoulos. 2019. "Evaluation of innovative ideas for Public Transport proposed by citizens using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)." European Transport Research Review 11, no. 1: 22.
A family of innovative financial mechanisms and tools for urban public transport, based on the value increment caused by enhanced accessibility, is lately gaining much popularity as a solution to the challenges posed by shrinkage of public financial resources, known as Value Capture Finance (VCF). The effectiveness of applied transport financing policies depends significantly on the level of agreement among stakeholders, making collaboration a prerequisite for success. The research presented in this chapter assesses alternative financing options for urban public transportation that are based on the VCF concept, using the Multi Actor Multi Criteria Analysis (MAMCA). The proposed methodological framework is applied to a real-world case study of the metro system under construction in Thessaloniki, Greece. The chapter introduces the MAMCA as an ex ante evaluation method for different VCF mechanisms for urban transportation infrastructure. The MAMCA emerges as a robust methodology for this assessment, as it is shown to be capable of dealing with the complexity of VCF and its multidisciplinary nature.
Anastasia Roukouni; Cathy Macharis; Socrates Basbas. Evaluation of Value Capture Financing schemes for urban transportation infrastructure with the aid of Multi Actor Multi Criteria Analysis focusing on a Greek city. Decision-Making for Sustainable Transport and Mobility 2018, 120 -148.
AMA StyleAnastasia Roukouni, Cathy Macharis, Socrates Basbas. Evaluation of Value Capture Financing schemes for urban transportation infrastructure with the aid of Multi Actor Multi Criteria Analysis focusing on a Greek city. Decision-Making for Sustainable Transport and Mobility. 2018; ():120-148.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Roukouni; Cathy Macharis; Socrates Basbas. 2018. "Evaluation of Value Capture Financing schemes for urban transportation infrastructure with the aid of Multi Actor Multi Criteria Analysis focusing on a Greek city." Decision-Making for Sustainable Transport and Mobility , no. : 120-148.
The relationship between accessibility, as a measure of the fixed location of the property, and land value is well recognized. Space Syntax theory was developed as a set of tools to analyze relationships between structures and functions of cities introducing accessibility measures of the urban grid. Even though admitted that location parameters comprise the most influential factors of urban property value, accessibility measures of centrality, based on network (integration and choice) quantifying urban morphology, have gained little attention in land value literature, despite the fact that urban grid morphology has a crucial role in property market structure. Recently, there has been growing interest for spatial statistics which count for spatial aspects of phenomena such as the land market. The frequently used OLS regression adopted for statistical inference on variables influencing a phenomenon is mostly inefficient for comprehension of spatial phenomena mainly due to instabilities caused by spatial autocorrelation and fixed parameter assumption. GWR extends the classic regression model by allowing spatially varying coefficient estimations while also accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The goal of the research presented herein is to estimate which spatial accessibility radius better explains objective land value and to explore local spatial relationships between geometric accessibility and land values using GWR, Space Syntax theory and GIS techniques, in Xanthi city, a medium sized city in Northern Greece. This research has led to inferences concerning the importance of Space Syntax geometric accessibility in the interpretation of land values, with local patterns of accessibility influence emerging.
Konstantinos Lykostratis; Maria Giannopoulou; Anastasia Roukouni. Measuring Urban Configuration: A GWR Approach. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2018, 479 -488.
AMA StyleKonstantinos Lykostratis, Maria Giannopoulou, Anastasia Roukouni. Measuring Urban Configuration: A GWR Approach. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2018; ():479-488.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKonstantinos Lykostratis; Maria Giannopoulou; Anastasia Roukouni. 2018. "Measuring Urban Configuration: A GWR Approach." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 479-488.
A family of innovative financial mechanisms and tools for urban public transport, based on the value increment caused by enhanced accessibility, are lately gaining much popularity as a solution to the challenges posed by public financial resources’ shrinkage: Value Capture Finance (VCF). The effectiveness of applied transport financing policies depends significantly on the level of agreement among stakeholders, making collaboration a prerequisite for success. The research presented herein assesses alternative financing options for urban public transportation which are based on the VCF concept. The Multi - Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA) developed by Macharis [1] is used. The methodology is unique in its field, as it includes in-depth involvement of all relevant stakeholders and reveals their way of thinking. The proposed methodological framework is applied to the real-world case study of the under construction metro system of Thessaloniki, Greece. Three different financing scenarios are tested, and the criteria weight elicitation is performed through personal interviews with 70 stakeholders belonging to six different groups, namely: Government/Local Authorities, Transport Authorities, Universities/Research Institutions, Private Sector, Society and Professional Associations. Noteworthy similarities but also contradictions among stakeholder groups emerged, highlighted by the different criteria used for each group. The paper introduces the MAMCA as an ex - ante evaluation method for different VCF mechanisms for urban transportation infrastructure. MAMCA emerges as a robust methodology for this assessment, as it is proved to be capable of dealing with the VCF complexity and multidisciplinary nature.
Anastasia Roukouni; Cathy Macharis; Socrates Basbas; Basil Stephanis; George Mintsis. Financing urban transportation infrastructure in a multi-actors environment: the role of value capture. European Transport Research Review 2018, 10, 14 .
AMA StyleAnastasia Roukouni, Cathy Macharis, Socrates Basbas, Basil Stephanis, George Mintsis. Financing urban transportation infrastructure in a multi-actors environment: the role of value capture. European Transport Research Review. 2018; 10 (1):14.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnastasia Roukouni; Cathy Macharis; Socrates Basbas; Basil Stephanis; George Mintsis. 2018. "Financing urban transportation infrastructure in a multi-actors environment: the role of value capture." European Transport Research Review 10, no. 1: 14.