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

数字化流动性：尼日利亚拉各斯气候智能交通网络的城市政治生态

• 批准号: 2072995
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2072995
• 关键词: Digitising; Mobility; Urban; Political; Ecology

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.

这项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，审查了数字化机动性的社会政治后果。针对广泛的城市问题，特别是与全球南部城市快速增长相关的问题，人们提出了“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，以优化机动性、减少温室气体排放和改善空气质量。数字化流动对社会正义具有重要影响，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(技术)城市知识的新形式和新分布，并打开或关闭了参与决策的机会。因此，理解这种影响需要进行批判性的社会科学分析，而不仅仅是系统实施和管理的问题。因此，这项研究调动了城市政治生态(UPE)的概念框架--该框架将城市化视为由政治-经济关系构建的社会-空间过程--来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、专家和当地社区合作，从社区到市政一级，了解基于信通技术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性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。它将产生调查结果，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说明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全球城市化。