Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.1930837
Pablo Martí, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Jesús López Baeza
ABSTRACT This study revisits the debate surrounding the definition of neighborhood boundaries by addressing the disconnect between the city’s Administrative Neighborhoods and its functional organization. A method is proposed for dividing the city into more meaningful units through the spatial distribution of urban activities by retrieving data from Google Places. The dataset was pre-processed and spatially divided into Functional Clusters. A comparison between functional and administrative subdivisions of the city was undertaken, from which three overall conclusions could be drawn. First, a function-based city partition allows economically active urban areas to become the neighborhood’s center, thereby creating a polynuclear neighborhood structure that would potentially encourage greater cross-movement of people throughout the city. Second, the specialization of activities becomes more evident in Functional Clusters than in Administrative Neighborhoods. Third, access to up-to-date data makes possible a timely diagnosis of the quantity and diversity of urban activities—i.e., economic activities, services, and facilities—through Google Places data. The value of this contribution is to inform urban decision-making and policies in order to better balance the provision of a neighborhood’s economic activity.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.1930841
Grzegorz Masik, Joanna Stępień
ABSTRACT The aim of the study is to recognize the understanding and implementation of the smart city concept by local governments in the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area in the north of Poland. Therefore, the authors examined local governments’ interest in “smart” strategy and identified human- and technology-oriented initiatives. In order to achieve the research aim, a survey with representatives of local governments and a content analysis of strategic documents were conducted. The results show that core cities of the metropolitan area try to be initiators of smart urban life while many other municipalities are not very active in this area. Most of the smart city initiatives referred to hard infrastructure, and only a portion of them are oriented toward improving human capital.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-05DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.1910467
J. Cinnamon, A. Gaffney
ABSTRACT Google Street View (GSV) is the de facto platform for street-level visual representation in most settings; however, its coverage is highly uneven due to a range of political, legal, technological, and economic factors. GSV’s spatiotemporal disparities are most evident within cities, and this advances a distorted urban imaginary of absences, fragments, and obsolescences. This paper traces key developments in 360° imaging poised to expand the production and consumption of street-level imagery, including new actors, platforms, technologies, and data production approaches. Then, engaging with consumer-grade imaging technologies and the notion of do-it-yourself urbanism, this paper develops a DIY street view approach as one new mode of producing street-level imagery. Drawing on the findings of a pilot study, the paper considers key practical issues for street-view production, the benefits and risks of DIY approaches in relation to corporate and crowdsourced imagery initiatives, and the politics of urban representation in 360°. Findings suggest that the DIY approach offers the potential for a more “careful curation” of space in 360° street-level representations; however, there are considerations specific to this “third way” that require further attention.
谷歌街景(Google Street View, GSV)是大多数情况下街景视觉呈现的实际平台;然而，由于一系列政治、法律、技术和经济因素，其覆盖范围极不平衡。GSV的时空差异在城市中最为明显，这推动了一种扭曲的城市想象，即缺失、碎片和过时。本文追踪了360°成像的关键发展，包括新的参与者、平台、技术和数据生产方法，这些发展有望扩大街道级图像的生产和消费。然后，结合消费级成像技术和DIY城市主义的概念，本文开发了一种DIY街景方法，作为一种生成街道级图像的新模式。根据一项试点研究的结果，本文考虑了街景制作的关键实际问题，与企业和众包图像计划相关的DIY方法的收益和风险，以及360°城市代表性的政治。研究结果表明，DIY的方法为360°街道层面的空间呈现提供了更“精心策划”的潜力;然而，这“第三条道路”有一些特殊的考虑需要进一步注意。
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Pub Date : 2021-04-26DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.1903288
Subasish Das, H. Zubaidi
ABSTRACT With the expanding popularity of Web 2.0, there has been a huge surge in the use of social media, like Twitter, to express user sentiments or opinions. Delays and breakdowns in transit operations can make riders annoyed and irritated, and as a result, they express their anger and frustration via social media posts. Understanding the tipping points of public frustration will help in developing better solutions. This study aims to develop a framework by developing multilevel sentiment analysis and determine the emotion and politeness measures using transit-related tweets from New York (New York City) and California (San Francisco). The popular hashtags associated with the transit systems of New York and California were collected during 2019. The words associated with negative sentiments widely differ in these two states. Moderate levels of differences are seen in the politeness measures for these two states. Additionally, co-occurrence measures associated with negative emotions identified unique issues based on the demographics. This study demonstrates that Twitter provides a great opportunity to understand the public perception of transit, and the findings can help authorities design a more efficient transit system to improve user experience.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-13DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.1900772
Islam Bouzguenda, N. Fava, C. Alalouch
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the impact of using three-dimensional digital participatory planning (3DDPP) on planning practices. This method was tested within the framework of a redevelopment project in one of the less-advantaged neighborhoods in the Dutch city of Schiedam. An interactive 3DDPP tool was employed by a group of residents who co-designed public spaces in the neighborhood. Residents were given the opportunity to visualize online the project area in 3D format, suggest their ideas, comment on the design proposal, produce interactive graphical designs online, and interact with each other. The impact of this process was tested according to five criteria (efficiency, feasibility, attractiveness, interaction, and satisfaction) developed via free-listing and pile-sorting methods in collaboration with nine experts. A qualitatively driven (QUAL) mixed method was used to analyze the data collected from a sample of 62 subjects, which included professionals and citizens. The results showed that the use of 3DDPP tools can potentially enhance community engagement in decision-making. This article concludes by emphasizing that socioeconomic, political, and demographic challenges, which might decrease the residents’ willingness to be actively engaged in collaborative decision-making, might not solely be solved via technologies.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-29DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.1896345
Daniel Piatkowski
ABSTRACT The success of autonomous shuttle services and their ability to deliver on the myriad potential benefits of such services, depends on two issues: (1) willingness to use these services, and (2) the extent to which autonomous shuttle services can replace existing forms of transport, particularly car travel. This paper addresses these issues using survey data drawn from a pilot autonomous shuttle program. Descriptive statistics inform user preferences and expectations regarding autonomous shuttles. Logistic regression is used to specify correlates of willingness and frequency to ride the shuttle, and willingness to do so instead of using other forms of travel. Findings provide preliminary evidence for the existence of an enthusiastic early adopter population and also indicates that an autonomous shuttle service would likely be perceived as complementary to existing multi-modal systems in downtown areas. Additionally, regression results demonstrate that age, working downtown, and perceptions of bus service are associated with willingness to substitute the car for shuttle travel. Future research is needed once autonomous shuttle services become fully operational to understand if, in fact, early-adopters who are enthusiastic about autonomous vehicles continue to use autonomous shuttles once implemented, and to better understand the potential implications of autonomous transit systems in cities.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-17DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.1879605
Xia Wang, F. Zhen, Jia Tang, Li Shen, Danli Liu
ABSTRACT Despite the increasing attention given to smart tourism in China, limited research has been conducted on this topic. The purpose of this research was to analyze the stakeholders, applications, experiences, and challenges of smart tourism in China. Public–private partnership played a dominant role in China’s smart tourism construction. Smart technologies were applied in information platform construction, tourism statistics innovation, information offering, overcrowding management, environment and resource protection, experience co-creation and personalization, tourism traffic, and marketing. The experiences and challenges of China’s smart tourism initiative, which can provide valuable implications for other destinations to improve smartness level, were also identified.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2021.1879606
Sarah Dennis, A. Paz, Tan Yigitcanlar
ABSTRACT Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are quickly becoming part of our transportation systems, and their use is largely dependent on public perceptions. The objective of this study was to evaluate perceptions of CAVs. Specifically, understanding the differences between people who have ridden a CAV in downtown Las Vegas (shuttle-rider survey) versus those who have not (general survey) yet. Two different survey questionnaires were used to collect data that was analyzed by using penalized logistic regression. Results suggest that people who had exposure to CAVs feel more positively about CAVs. Similarly, young, highly educated, males feel more positively about CAVs than their respective counterparts.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2020.1847983
E. Kassens-Noor, Mark Wilson, Meng Cai, Noah J. Durst, Travis Decaminada
ABSTRACT Public perception of the next generation of vehicles will affect their design, deployment, and ultimately their use. As the engineering terms of self-driving, driverless, fully automated, and autonomous were introduced to the social sciences and the public at large, the subtle differences among these terms have been lost. However, using them as synonyms even though they may not be interchangeable is problematic. To explore the semantics of different future vehicle terms we surveyed 963 Michigan residents on their understanding of “autonomous” and “self-driving.” We found significant differences in perceptions between the terms autonomous and self-driving vehicles. While the former invokes many more uncertain responses, the latter is laden with concerns. These results suggest that the language used to describe the next generation of vehicles may shape public reaction and acceptance. As new mobility options are introduced to the public, our understanding of them will be shaped, in part, by the language used to name and explain the technology. Far from being inconsequential, word choice plays a major, yet underappreciated, role in shaping public opinion.
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