Digitising Mobility: An Urban Political Ecology of ClimateSmart Transport Networks in Lagos, Nigeria

本研究通过深入分析尼日利亚拉各斯交通网络中正在进行的数字技术发展，探讨了数字化移动的社会政治后果。针对一系列广泛的城市问题，特别是与全球南方城市快速增长有关的问题，提出了“智能技术解决方案”。智能交通网络涉及对城市基础设施的数字干预，以优化移动性，减少温室气体排放并改善空气质量。数字化流动性对社会正义具有重要意义，因为它解决了特定需求而不是其他需求，为获得交通服务创造了新的条件，创造了新的形式和（技术）城市知识的分布，并打开或关闭了参与决策的机会。因此，理解这些影响需要超越系统实施和管理问题的批判性社会科学分析。因此，本研究调动了城市政治生态（UPE）的概念框架-它检查城市化作为一个社会空间的过程，由政治经济关系结构-分析在拉各斯实施智能交通系统的社会政治后果。我将与利益攸关方、非政府组织、专家和地方社区合作，从社区到市一级，了解以信息和通信技术为基础的发展如何影响拉各斯的交通治理。研究将提供有关数字化移动如何改变撒哈拉以南非洲主要城市之一的城市基础设施“新陈代谢”的新知识。它将得出结论，为智能城市管理方案提供信息，特别是在全球南方。其更广泛的分析结果将为人文地理学和城市研究中正在进行的辩论，特别是智能城市化和行星城市化。

This research examines the socio-political consequences of digitising mobility, through an in-depth analysis of ongoing digital technology developments in the transport network of Lagos, Nigeria. 'Smart technology solutions' are being proposed for a wide range of urban problems, particularly those associated with rapid urban growth in the global South. Smart transportation networks involve digital interventions in urban infrastructures to optimise mobility, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality. Digitising mobility has important implications for social justice, as it addresses particular needs and not others, introduces new conditions for accessing transport services, creates new forms and distributions of (technical) urban knowledge, and opens up or closes down opportunities for participation in decision-making . Understanding such implications requires, therefore, a critical social science analysis beyond questions of system implementation and management. Accordingly, this research mobilises the conceptual framework of urban political ecology (UPE) - which examines urbanisation as a socio-spatial process structured by political-economic relations - to analyse the socio-political consequences of implementing smart transportation systems in Lagos. I will work with stakeholders, NGOs, experts and local communities, from neighbourhood to municipal level, to understand how ICT-based developments affect transport governance in Lagos. Research will contribute new knowledge about how digitising mobility is transforming urban infrastructural 'metabolisms' in the one of sub-Saharan Africa's primary cities. It will generate findings that inform programmes of smart urban management, particularly in the global South. Its broader analytical findings will speak to ongoing debates in human geography and urban studies, particularly smart urbanism and planetary urbanisation.