Defining a Digital System for the Pedestrian Network as a Conceptual Implementation Framework

Mona Jabbari, Zahra Ahmadi and Rui Ramos
Additional contact information
Mona Jabbari: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Education and Business Studies, University of Gävle, 801 76 Gävle, Sweden
Zahra Ahmadi: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Education and Business Studies, University of Gävle, 801 76 Gävle, Sweden
Rui Ramos: Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-11

Abstract: In cities today, the digitalization of mobility is one of the most crucial tools that link each single mobility service providers (e.g., ride sharing, public transportation, air travel, etc.) to users. Based on the smart pedestrian network model, the purpose of this study is to initially provide the requirements towards the digitalization of a pedestrian network model and subsequently to draft an institutional framework towards the effective implementation and management of pedestrian mobility that will develop/create a pedestrian network as a new structure in the city. The methodology is applied in three phases, with three separate approaches: “desk approach” for a data gathering standard that is knowledge-based and connected to walkability; a “digitalization approach” for citizen and stakeholder participation in policy co-creation; and a “business approach”. A business approach is defined as a set of operations that takes one or more types of input and produces a customer-valued outcome. In this case, customers are citizens and the business approach by applying a digital system is assessing policies and finding/defining an optimized combination of shared applicable/effective policies to implement the pedestrian network. By boosting an innovative linkage of these three phases, digitalization of the pedestrian network has great potential to improve the walkability planning process and therefore to create more sustainable and livable urban spaces.

Keywords: pedestrian network; digital system; urban planning process; citizen; business strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/5/2528/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/5/2528/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:5:p:2528-:d:755809

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().