Car Sharing as an Instrument for Urban Development: Conceptual Framework and Simulation on Interactive CityScope Tables

Jörg Rainer Noennig*, Lukas Schaber, Jochen Schiewe, Gesa Ziemer

*Corresponding author for this work

Abstract

Starting from the assumption that development of urban areas is linked to mobility and access to transportation, the paper investigates car-sharing services as an active instrument for urban development. It hypothesizes that purposeful implementation of car-sharing invigorates “sleeping” urban areas, and potentially turns them into places of high urban and real estate value. For testing this hypothesis, a custom made simulation software was designed for application on the interactive modeling table CityScope. The tool enables the dynamic analysis of urban accessibility in the form of heatmaps and lines out with a special “Impact Mapping” feature the change of accessibility through car-sharing. Using demographic and mobility data of the city of Hamburg, the paper demonstrates how the accessibility of cities can be analyzed with the tool, and how appropriate areas for car-sharing services can be identified.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Mobility
Pages135-148
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Mobility
ISSN (Print)2196-5544
ISSN (Electronic)2196-5552

Keywords

  • Accessbility analysis
  • City science
  • CityScope
  • Dijkstra-algorithm
  • GIS
  • Hamburg
  • Impact tool
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Interactive model
  • ITS
  • Population density
  • Spatial reference system
  • Supply quality
  • Urban analysis
  • Urban data
  • Urban upgrading
  • Use cases
  • Value creation
  • Visualisation

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