IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ecr/col070/81712.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Using benchmarking to improve urban mobility: a new tool for building smart cities in emerging countries

Author

Listed:
  • Verruck, Fábio
  • Gonçalves, Roberto Birch
  • Poletto, Isadora Conte

Abstract

Currently, smart city measurements and rankings often overlook key factors, such as size, population and economic tradition, leading to unrealistic goals being set when cities with different histories are compared with unattainable benchmarks. The present article argues that considering these factors can help city planners to achieve more efficient, incremental improvements. Focusing on mobility, this study compares a mid-sized city in southern Brazil with Aarhus, Denmark, a city of similar size and economic tradition. A diagnostic tool was developed to assess the urban mobility strengths and weaknesses of the Brazilian city through benchmarking. The results indicated that the city’s urban mobility could be improved by implementing simple solutions: (i) enhancing the attractiveness of the public transport system; (ii) promoting bicycle use; and (iii) improving access to real-time information.

Suggested Citation

  • Verruck, Fábio & Gonçalves, Roberto Birch & Poletto, Isadora Conte, 2024. "Using benchmarking to improve urban mobility: a new tool for building smart cities in emerging countries," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecr:col070:81712
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://repositorio.cepal.org/handle/11362/81712
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ecr:col070:81712. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Biblioteca CEPAL (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/eclaccl.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.