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Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 56: Minitrack
Call for Papers
Third Smart Mobility Ecosystems and Services Minitrack
(in Decision Analytics, Mobile Technologies and Service Science
track)
Minitrack chairs:
Juho Lindman, Matti Rossi, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen
HICSS-56: January 3-6, 2023| Maui, Hawaii
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2022
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/decision-analytics-and-service-science/#smart-mobility-ecosystems-and-services-minitrack
Theme
Transportation is changing and this change is driven by
technology-driven trends: autonomy, connectivity, electrification
and diverse mobility business models of shared vehicles. At the
same time, there is a drive towards more sustainable
transportation. Digital platforms and services are essential for
orchestrating sustainable smart mobility ecosystems and related
services: data that represents accurately, for instance, location
of passengers and service providers, weather, usage and
maintenance is a cornerstone for service design. Identification
and communication systems that link specific physical things to
specific digital addresses offer possibilities to communicate,
transact, pay, build trust, sense and activate “things” from the
internet – and design novel services based on this generated data.
Autonomous vehicles, electric cars and mobility related sharing
economy services all build on platform thinking, as do many
services reducing the need for travel to begin with. For these
services to work, there is a need to analyze the ecosystems
emerging around these services, as the services and platforms form
complex webs.
Autonomous vehicles have been hailed as harbingers of new kinds of
mobility and travel services. Autonomous cars seem still to be
further away from wider prevalence than expected a couple of years
ago, but the data gathered for them and made available from e.g.
smart city initiatives and mobile devices provides great
opportunities for different kinds of smart mobility services,
related to both private and public transportation. Also shipping
industry, especially in cargo shipping, has already many ongoing
advanced projects and pilots, and in aviation, autonomous
aircrafts are being developed by several companies. In closed
and/or hazardous environments, such as mines, autonomous vehicles
are already working. Autonomous vehicles on land, in see and air
(including drones) are expected to decrease costs and increase
efficiency and safety, but a host of regulatory, safety, legal and
security challenges are yet to be resolved.
More acutely, electric cars are increasingly embraced by car
owners and they require their own set of infrastructure and
services. Full scale charging infrastructure needs building, and
it requires a lot of mobile services to support it. Some are
simple, like applications that show location and availability of
charging station, and some more complex, like payment systems for
charging and - in the near future - for trading electricity stored
in car batteries, which can be used in smart grids to balance
peaks of consumption. Societal benefits of moving from fossil
fuels to electricity in terms of reduction of pollution are quite
evident, but in addition to insufficient charging infrastructure,
limited driving range, high costs and battery issues still act as
barriers to wider acceptance.
At the same time there is growing concerns about sustainability of
current practices of mobility and travel. Mobility related sharing
economy services as well as different types of fleet services are
seen as viable options to privately owned cars, but they have
their own challenges, such as added congestion in cities,
reconfiguring existing modes of (especially public)
transportation, disrupting incumbent industries and widening the
power imbalance between the platform owners and “independent
contractors”. These services require the ability to connect to
these specific platforms and seem to be prone to strong location
and availability-based network effects. Examples of these services
are on one hand Uber and Lyft type of services and on the other
hand, in the near future, autonomous transportation of people as
well as cargo through fleets of autonomous vehicles on land, water
and air.
At the same time concerns about business traveling has become
acute in many countries and there are movements to limit both work
and leisure travel when possible. Could smart digital services and
apps offer alternatives for travel, or could there be services
that propose the best ways to limit the carbon footprint of
travel? In addition to usage of mobility value services, we are
also interested in their development, design and service
innovation. Furthermore, social, societal and potential customer
segmentation issues are of great interest. In this proposed
minitrack we take stock of what is the state of the art in current
mobility services and service ecosystems and what is coming in the
near future.
As HICSS is addressing leading edge developments, we especially
encourage submissions on new subareas, such as, sustainable travel
services, autonomous transportation services, and privacy and
security concepts.
Relevant topics for this minitrack include, but are not limited
to:
• Transportation ecosystems and services
• Smart traffic services
• Autonomous and connected vehicle development
• Autonomous vehicle (land, see, air) business models
• User issues in different smart traffic services
• Location-based services and business models related to mobility
• Business value of transportation and mobility services
• Data privacy and quality in mobility services
• Data sharing and ownership issues hampering data utilization in
mobility services
• Sustainable travel services
• Value added services for travelers (usage, location, maintenance
data)
• Business and societal issues related to autonomous vehicles
(land, see, air)
• Technological challenges of adaptivity of services
Mini-Track Chairs
Juho Lindman (Primary Contact)
University of Gothenburg
juho lindman at ait.gu.se
Matti Rossi
Aalto University School of Business
matti.rossi at aalto.fi
Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen
Aalto University School of Business
virpi.tuunainen at aalto.fi
Matti Rossi
Professor of Information Systems Science
Aalto University School of Business
Department of Information and Service Management
P.O. Box 21220, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
Visiting address Ekonominaukio 1 Room V209, Espoo
email:
matti.rossi@aalto.fi
Mobile: +358-50-3835503, Skype: motrossi
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