Smart Mobility Suburbs (SMS)
Smart Mobility Suburbs (SMS) is a trans-disciplinary project that addresses the conditions for transition towards energy-smart mobility in suburban centres.

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About the project
The project focuses on two types of under-addressed innovations:
- innovations in mobility practises
- innovations in collaborative and multi-scalar governance to enable low-energy smart cities/micro-cities.
Empirically, SMS studies the networks (cross-scale institutions) and markets and regulatory systems involved in the implementation of Oslo’s climate and energy strategy The Green Shift and similar policies of neighbouring municipalities and suburban towns (with local micro-city cases: Lillestrøm, Ski, Fornebu/Bærum).
Objectives
We ask how regional, municipal and suburban governance and planning organise and regulate sustainable mobility practices within selected micro-cities in sub-urban areas of the city region through a combination of hierarchical, market and network measures. Very limited research has so far been done on smart city development focusing on collaborative governance, markets, networks and cross-scale institutional challenges between city regional and local scales. The proposal addresses ENERGIX priority areas on energy policy, economy and society by focusing on smart cities and communities.
Outcomes
The project will provide new knowledge about which organisational, regulatory and market challenges can realize smart energy systems, cities and towns, as requested in the call.
Background
The project utilizes mixed quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigate energy-smart mobility practises and innovations in governance (including surveys, interviews, policy and institutional analysis). The project builds upon earlier and on-going research by each of the UiO/CIENS partners (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , Norwegian Centre for Transport research TØI) and long-standing institutional collaboration
International scientific advisory board
- Marco Helbich: Spatial analyses and GIS
- Monika Buscher: Mobility practices
- Greg Marsden: Transport governance
- Jon Shaw: Geographies of mobilities
Cooperation
- SmartCity Bærum
- Accenture consultancy
- Nordre Follo Municipality
- Lillestrøm Municipality
- Oslo Municipality
- Viken County
Funding scheme
The project is funded by The Research Council of Norway under the Large-scale programme for energy research (ENERGIX). The total grant award was for NOK 7 000 000.
Project period
2016 - 2021
Publications
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Vedeld, Trond; Hofstad, Hege; Hilde, Solli & Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær (2021). Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo. Environmental Policy and Governance. ISSN 1756-932X. February(2), p. 1–14. doi: 10.1002/eet.1935.
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Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl (2021). Conceived and lived boundaries of low carbon mobility transitions.
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Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl & Røe, Per Gunnar (2021). Sustainable mobility transitions in suburbia - (dis)connections between transport planning and daily mobilities .
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Røe, Per Gunnar & Tveiten, Kristian (2021). Suburbanizing the Compact City Model: The Imagination of a Post-suburban Oslo Region.
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Røe, Per Gunnar & Tveiten, Kristian (2021). Suburbanizing the Compact City Model: The Imagination of a Post-suburban Oslo Region.
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Vedeld, Trond (2021). Polycentric, hybrid governance in metropolitan Oslo: Tackling climate & sustainable urban transformation in small- towns. Show summary
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Røe, Per Gunnar (2021). Suburban Green Mobility. Challenges, Potentials, Paradoxes.
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Røe, Per Gunnar (2021). ”Smart Mobility Suburbs” - Et tverrfaglig forskningsprosjekt finansiert av NFR-programmet EnergiX.
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Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl (2020). Everyday decarbonisation of mobility in suburban centres .
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Røe, Per Gunnar (2020). Include - A centre for socially inclusive solutions through co-creation with stakeholders.
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Røe, Per Gunnar (2020). Sosiale implikasjoner av regional plan for Oslo og Akershus (eller av post-suburban planlegging).
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Nenseth, Vibeke (2020). Digital varehandel og mobilitetsendringer. Plan: Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. 2020(02).
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Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl (2020). Mobile objects - influencing the embodied experience of e-biking .
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Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl (2020). Everyday decarbonisation of mobility systems .
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Vedeld, Trond (2020). Polycentric perspective on urban climate governance and sustainable futures in metropolitan edge towns of Oslo. Show summary
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Vedeld, Trond (2020). Klimaomstilling og bærekraftig byutvikling i Oslo regionen: Dilemmaer ved polysentrisk flernivå styring. Show summary
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Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl (2020). Moving for mobility.
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Nenseth, Vibeke (2020). Tilskuddsordninger for redusert bilbruk. Transportøkonomisk institutt.