CEAFJP WORKSHOP

Local Government and Innovationfor Sustainable Mobility
Empirical Analysis from Japan and Europe

December 5th 2018
EHESS, 54 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris
10:00 - 12:00, Room AS1_23
13:00 - 16:00, Room AS1_08
The aim of the workshop is to analyse the role and means of the Local Governments for development
and implementation of innovative mobility means (IMM). One can realize sustainable transport by IMM likea ridesharing service, autonomous mini-bus and so on. There are many good practices of IMM by Local
Governments in Europe and Japan. In this workshop, the panellist include not only academic researcher
but also person of Local Governments and Innovators Company. Questions that are to be addressed
include: What are Roles of Local Governments? How does Local Governments implement policies? What is
optimal relation between Local Governments and Innovators? Also, including “Role of researchers for Local
Sustainable Transport”, we discuss about deferent of role of researchers between France and Japan.

10:00 - Opening Address

Program

Sebastien Lechevalier (EHESS-FFJ)

10:10 - Role and Means of Local Governments for Mobility Innovation:Academic Perspective and the Frontier of Local Transport
Soichiro Minami (EHESS-FFJ, CEAFJP/Valeo Fellow)

11:10 - Social Acceptance of “New Mobility Innovation” : From Social andTechnological Perspective

Hidetada Higashi (Yamanashi Gakuin University)

12:00 - Lunch Break
13:00 - The Role of Local Authorities in the Emergence of Innovations in theFields of Transport and Mobility

Bruno Faivre d’Arcier (Lyon 2 University)

13:50 - Innovation in Public Transport: A History-based Address of Three
Governance Models

Arnaud Passalacqua (Université Paris Diderot)

14:40 - Coffee Break
14:55 - Frontier of Connectivity and Human Intervention in Mobility Service

Sector: How the Human Role and Responsibilities Are Redefined through theIntroduction of Connectivity Technologies?
Haruki Sawamura (Ecole polytechnique)

15:45 - Closing Session

List of Speakers andCommunications
Bruno Faivre d’Arcier
Bruno Faivre d’Arcier is Emeritus Professor in City Planning and Transport Studies
at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Lyon (Lyon 2)
and is researcher at the Transport Urban Planning Economics Laboratory (LAET)of the University of Lyon, France. Engineer and economist, he started his career atthe National Institute of Transport Research (Ministry of Transport), before joining
the University in 1999 where he was the co-director of a Master degree diploma on
Urban and Regional Passenger Transport Studies.
His research activity focuses mainly on local transport and mobility policies covering
several approaches: assessment of public policies (Sustainable Urban MobilityPlans) and transport investments (Cost Benefit Analysis; Public Private Partnership);
improvement of PT funding; analysis of PT service performance; analysis of new mobility practices, such as
electro-mobility, bike-sharing and carsharing.

The Role of Local Authorities in the Emergence of Innovations in the Fields ofTransport and Mobility
In the context of sustainable development, local authorities can play a key role for encouraging inhabitants tochange their travel behavior. Benefiting from several planning tools cities try to design alternative modes oftransport, in order to reduce inhabitants’ car dependency. This means important changes inside the technicaland managerial staff of cities. Only mains cities have enough technical and fiscal capacities to promote newmobility services. Taking the case of Grand Lyon Metropole, this presentation discusses the stakes and thedifficulties local authorities are facing to facilitate a more sustainable mobility.

Hidetada Higashi
Hidetada Higashi is an Associate Professor, Associate Chair at the Department ofBusiness, and Co-Director of the Research Institute of Management Studies (RIMS),
Yamanashi Gakuin University. He was Visiting Researcher at FFJ as the 2016
CEAFJP/Valeo Fellow. His recent research focuses on the patterns of new productdevelopment process and organization of automotive companies and production
system of agricultural industry.

Social Acceptance of “New Mobility Innovation” : From Socialand Technological Perspective
Prior research on Mobility in the domain of MOT focused into “Cars as goods” and the productivity of innovation
on Dominant design. Nevertheless, the “New Mobility Innovation” such as Autonomous vehicle, Ridesharing,and carsharing are beyond from the boundary of product. They are not just a goods, but rather a system
highly interacting with society and users. Using the case of Japan and Europe, the presenter will introduce
the potential of interdisciprinary research to introduce the integrated view of technology, firm, user, and publicaspects.

Soichiro Minami
Minami Soichiro is an Assistant professor at Graduate School of Economics,
Kyoto University (until March 2018). His specialty is Public Finance, Environmental
Economics and Transportation policy. He has published extensively research articles
in interdisciplinary journals on issues related to sustainable transportation.

Role and Means of Local Governments for Mobility
Innovation:
Academic Perspective and the Frontier of Local Transport
There are many good practice of innovation for sustainable mobility by local
governments all over the world. Recently local governments have played important role for sustainablemobility innovation. But this viewpoint has not been discussed in academic field about transportation. I focus
on the role and policy means of Local Transport to establish Comprehensive Local Transport Plan that defines
investment to infrastructure and service level of public transport or regulation of car traffic and parking, ofdemonstration experience of innovation mobility means and of decision making in that region. I analyze somecase studies European and Japan. I propose perspective of transportation policy science (Transportation
Economics, civil engineering and Public Finance) and viewpoint of integration with discipline about mobility
innovation.

Arnaud Passalacqua
Arnaud Passalacqua is Associate Professor in History (Paris Diderot University). His
research focuses on urban mobility in the industrial cities conceived as a historicalphenomenon, in Europe in general and especially in the twentieth century Paris. The
main concepts on which he bases his work are those of public space and interaction
between mobility systems. But he addresses other topics such as energy. With thesetools he tries to shed light on the theme of mobility history with a peculiar attention tosocial and cultural elements conceived as key factors for understanding the technicalobjects and mobility infrastructures.

Innovation in Public Transport: A History-based Address of Three Governance
ModelsThis paper will address three types of configuration between operators, central and local governments in thefield of urban mobility, with a specific glimpse on innovation. It will be based on three historical examples : theParisian bus and tram networks in the Interwar Period, the RER network completion during the 1970s and thefirst long-lasting bike sharing system ever implemented in the world (La Rochelle, 1976).

Haruki Sawamura
Haruki Sawamura is a Doctoral candidate at Ecole polytechnique (France)
Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation, Management Research Center (Centre de laRecherche en Gestion: CRG). His research topic is the Diffusion of Electric Vehicles(EVs) in Indian cities. He is working with a French automobile OEM and with amobility service provider using EVs in Indian cities. His research focuses particularly
on Business model innovation, Innovation ecosystem and Dynamic capability. He got
his Masters from the Department of Technology Management for Innovation (TMI),
School of engineering, University of Tokyo and a Bachelor from the Department ofApplied physics, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University.

Frontier of Connectivity and Human Intervention in Mobility Service Sector:
How the Human Role and Responsibilities Are Redefined through theIntroduction of Connectivity Technologies?
The diffusion of “Connectivity Technologies” (CTs) such as sensing, computing and telecommunicating
facilitates the deployment of further (semi-)automated consumer products and services. The integration ofCTs into a product can either 1) increase what people can do or 2) reduce what people need to do. What canbe the results of these changes? How the human role and responsibilities are being redefined?