Framing key concepts to design a human centered urban mobility system
Year: 2017
Editor: Anja Maier, Stanko Škec, Harrison Kim, Michael Kokkolaras, Josef Oehmen, Georges Fadel, Filippo Salustri, Mike Van der Loos
Author: Al Maghraoui, Ouail; Vallet, Flore; Puchinger, Jakob; Yannou, Bernard
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France; 2: IRT SystemX, France
Section: Product, Services and Systems Design
Page(s): 091-100
ISBN: 978-1-904670-91-9
ISSN: 2220-4342
Abstract
Urban mobility poses some sustainability and design practice challenges. Mobility components such as vehicles, urban infrastructure, mobility services or other services delivered along a mobility experience are often designed separately. The performance of a global urban mobility system, at a city scale for instance, is therefore parceled out into components’ ones that are not integrated from the perspective of a user who interacts with them in a door-to-door journey. This paper starts with relating different perspectives of urban mobility including, in crescendo, the human in the production of a global design solution. Through the examination of design and transport literature as well as practical examples, the paper highlights complexity factors of urban mobility that challenges engineering design. A second contribution is to identify relevant design objects aiming at providing a language for designing urban mobility.
Keywords: Complexity, User centred design, Design engineering