Transport, e-Participation and Health
Andrew
Nash
GreenCityStreets.com
1st
Interna8onal
Conference
on
Transport
&
Health
(ICTH)
London
July
6,
2015

Why
do
we
need
be+er
par/cipa/on?
• Generates
beJer
ideas
Local
knowledge
and
new
perspec0ves.
• Builds
poli8cal
support
Especially
important
for
complex
projects.
• Creates
community
People
willing
to
act
to
improve
their
city.
• Makes
people
happy
People
want
to
help
…
seek
intrinsic
rewards.

City
OJakringer
And
…
happy
people
are
healthy
people:

What
is
e-­‐par/cipa/on?
• Repor8ng
&
providing
input
• Collec8ng
&
analysing
data
• Collabora8on
• Doing
things

SeeClickFix
page
for
San
Francisco
h#p://seeclickfix.com

Street
Bump,
Boston
h#p://streetbump.org/

Meine
Radspur,
Vienna
h#p://www.meineradspur.at/

Smart
Ci8zen
sensor
and
soWware
h#p://www.smartci;zen.me/

Loomio
–
public
infrastructure
for
collabora8ve
decision
making
www.loomio.org
-­‐
please
support
their
crowd
funding
effort!

Visualisa8on
of
street
cross
sec8ons...
streetmix
h#p://streetmix.net

Crowdfunding
for
civic
improvements
…
Kickstarter

Designing
passionate,
people-­‐powered
public
services
Casserole
is
an
example
of
how
understanding
ci/zens
as
producers
as
well
as
consumers
leads
to
services
that
help
communi;es
turn
the
issues
they’re
passionate
about
into
ways
to
be
more
self-­‐
sufficient
and
less
invested
in
expensive
public
services.

Fun
and
Gamifica8on
• Gamifica;on
applies
the
fun
and
addic/ng
elements
in
games
to
real-­‐world
ac;vi;es.
• It
focuses
on
the
human
in
the
system,
as
opposed
to
pure
efficiency
of
the
system.
(Yu-­‐Kai
Chou)
• Games
improve
social
fabric
since
people
tend
to
like
people
be#er
aLer
playing
games
together
(Mc
Gonigal).
• Games
give
people
challenging
tasks
to
work
on
together
…
people
are
happier
when
working
hard.
• Games
provide
epic
meaning
(akin
to
real-­‐world
purpose).

Ring
Ride
game
!
ringstrasse150.com
–
Fun
!
Advocacy

Grr-­‐Grr-­‐Bike
game
!
grr-­‐grr-­‐bike.com
–
Fun
!
Learning

Bus
Meister
game
!
greencitystreets.com
–
Fun
!
Learning

Chromaroma
game
!
Fun
!
Influence
behaviour

Walk-­‐a-­‐Stop
!
Info
+
Social
Network
!
Influence
behaviour
Human
is
an
all-­‐day
ac;vity
&
calorie
tracker
that
inspires
you
to
move
30
minutes
a
day.
Ac8vity
monitor
(e.g.,
Human)
+
Public
transport
travel
planner
+
Real
8me
transport
data
(official
/
user)
+
Social
networking
=
Walk-­‐a-­‐Stop
Users
receive
push
data
when
sta;ons
are
crowded
sugges;ng
they
walk
or
bike
one
or
two
sta;ons.
Ac;vity
is
rewarded
(transit
;ckets),
social
networking
provides
info
about
good
routes,
interes;ng
shops,
companions
to
walk
with,
and/or
system
suggests,
It’s
a
nice
day
why
not
walk?

Summary
1. Civic
par;cipa;on
is
fundamental
for
crea/ng
healthy
people
and
communi;es.
2. Informa;on
technology
has
completely
changed
the
ability
of
people
to
par;cipate
in
all
aspects
of
government
(input,
analysis,
decision-­‐making,
ac;on).
3. Government
must
embrace
this
change
or
someone
else
will.

Andrew
Nash
develops
engaging
public
par;cipa;on
applica;ons
and
games
designed
to
improve
city
live-­‐ability
and
transport.
• GreenCityStreets.com
• Ringstrasse150.com
• AndyNash.com