-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] HICSS 54 Call for Papers Minitrack Blockchain for digital services, one month to deadline again! Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 07:22:21 +0000 From: Rossi Matti matti.rossi@aalto.fi To: Isworld aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 54: Minitrack Call for Papers

Smart Mobility Ecosystems and Services

(in Decision Analytics, Mobile Technologies and Service Science track)

Minitrack chairs: Juho Lindman, Matti Rossi, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen

HICSS-54: January 5-8, 2021| Kauai, Hawaii

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2020 Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu and https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/decision-analytics-and-service-science/#s... 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 service ecosystems: 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 are all build on platform thinking, as do many services reducing the need for travel to begin with.

Autonomous vehicles have been hailed as harbingers of new kinds of mobility and travel services. Autonomous cars seem to be a bit further away from wider prevalence than expected a couple of years ago, but the data gathered for them and available from e.g. smart city initiatives and mobile devices provides great opportunities for smart mobility services, related to both private and public transportation. 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 in land, see and air (e.g. 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 grid to balance peaks of consumption. Societal benefits of moving from fossil fuels to electricity in terms of reduction of pollution are quite clear, 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 a growing concern 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, like 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.

At the same time concerns about e.g. 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? W e 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. Topics 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 adaptability and 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 https://goo.gl/maps/cniDWnZrAiy email: matti.rossi@aalto.fimailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi Mobile: +358-50-3835503, Skype: motrossi

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