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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.

«Lysaker Pier 1» by Wasielgallery - Own work. Photo: Lisenced under CC by 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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

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

Røe, Per Gunnar; Kjærås, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen & Haarstad, Håvard (2022). The Spatialities of the Nordic Compact City. In Jakobsen, Peter; Jönsson, Erik & Gutzon Larsen, Henrik (Ed.), Socio-spatial theory in Nordic geography : Intellectual histories and critical interventions. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783031042331. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-04234-8_11.
Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl & Røe, Per Gunnar (2022). Sustainable mobility transitions in suburbia–exploring (dis)connections between transport planning and daily mobility. Urban Research and Practice. ISSN 1753-5069. doi: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2119430.
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.
Hjorteset, Mari Andrine; Böcker, Lars; Røe, Per Gunnar & Wessel, Terje (2021). Intraurban geographies of car sharing supply and demand in Greater Oslo, Norway. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. ISSN 1361-9209. 101, p. 1–13. doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2021.103089. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This paper examines urban patterns of car sharing supply and demand at neighbourhood level. By using literature on spatial inequality and unequal mobility access, we provide new insights into the urban geographies of car sharing. We draw on register data of members and vehicles of station-based car sharing for Oslo, Norway, spatially coupled with population composition, urban form and public transport accessibility ratios. We find both the demand and supply of station-based car sharing to be unevenly distributed. Some of the most profound contributors to car sharing demand include middle income levels, middle and higher levels of education, higher shares of the population working in cultural sectors, higher shares of men, higher shares of multifamily housing, and higher strengths of the public transport regime compared to that of the private car. The paper discusses the implications of these findings for sustainable urban mobility, mobility justice and urban and transport planning.

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Røe, Per Gunnar (2022). Byutvikling, mobilitet og rettferdighet.
Røe, Per Gunnar (2022). Lillestrøm og Kjeller i urbaniseringens tid.
Røe, Per Gunnar (2021). ”Smart Mobility Suburbs” - Et tverrfaglig forskningsprosjekt finansiert av NFR-programmet EnergiX.
Røe, Per Gunnar (2021). Sattelite centralities and communities. The social ambitions and failures of architecture in Oslo's new towns of 1950's-1970's.
Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl (2021). Conceived and lived boundaries of low carbon mobility transitions.
Vedeld, Trond (2021). Polycentric, hybrid governance in metropolitan Oslo: Tackling climate & sustainable urban transformation in small- towns. Show summary
Theoretical summary: Clarity in climate goal-setting and ambitious climate goals confer institutional capacity, goal-oriented action on sustainability & mobilize external stakeholders Climate policies have transformative potentials for urban sustainability, but raise new conflict lines and contradictions Efficiency of outcomes dependent on flexible and hybrid forms of governance where co-creation is key Strategic (political) leadership and social context matter
Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl & Røe, Per Gunnar (2021). Sustainable mobility transitions in suburbia - (dis)connections between transport planning and daily mobilities .
Røe, Per Gunnar (2021). Suburban Green Mobility. Challenges, Potentials, Paradoxes.
Røe, Per Gunnar & Tveiten, Kristian (2021). Suburbanizing the Compact City Model: The Imagination of a Post-suburban Oslo Region.
Røe, Per Gunnar & Tveiten, Kristian (2021). Suburbanizing the Compact City Model: The Imagination of a Post-suburban Oslo Region.
Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl (2020). Moving for mobility.
Røe, Per Gunnar (2020). Include - A centre for socially inclusive solutions through co-creation with stakeholders.
Røe, Per Gunnar (2020). Sosiale implikasjoner av regional plan for Oslo og Akershus (eller av post-suburban planlegging).
Wikstrøm, Ragnhild Dahl (2020). Everyday decarbonisation of mobility systems .
Nenseth, Vibeke (2020). Digital varehandel og mobilitetsendringer. Plan: Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. 2020(02).
Nenseth, Vibeke (2020). Tilskuddsordninger for redusert bilbruk. Transportøkonomisk institutt.

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Tags: Urban development, Urban politics

Published Feb. 11, 2016 1:12 PM - Last modified Jan. 31, 2022 4:02 PM

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Per Gunnar Røe

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