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Information-communications technologies (ICT) and transport: does knowledge underpin policy?

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  • Cohen, Galit
  • Salomon, Ilan
  • Nijkamp, Peter

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Cities around the world attempt to imitate the Silicon Valley model by adopting public policies aimed at attracting new high-tech industries and Research and Development activities. The adoption of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) as elements in a public policy is based on the expectations of policy-makers regarding the potential to harness technology to ameliorate key urban problems such as a deteriorating environment, congestion or lack of communications between citizens and institutions. More specifically, policy-makers are exposed to knowledge about ICT, which is supplied by a variety of sources like scientists, popular media and their own experience. This paper argues that two gaps typify the flow of knowledge consumed by urban decision-makers: the knowledge gap, namely the uncertainty about the actual impacts of ICT on urban issues, and the communication gap which relates to the biases and noise emanating from the process of communicating knowledge between different actors on potential ICT impacts. The communications gap can, to a large extent, be explained by language and cultural differences between scientists and policy-makers. To illustrate and emphasise the gaps and their role in the ICT policy-making process, in this paper a comparison is made with the more familiar case of transportation policy making.

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  • Cohen, Galit & Salomon, Ilan & Nijkamp, Peter, 0. "Information-communications technologies (ICT) and transport: does knowledge underpin policy?," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 26(1-2), pages 31-52, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:26:y::i:1-2:p:31-52
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    1. Marchau, Vincent & Walker, Warren & van Duin, Ron, 2008. "An adaptive approach to implementing innovative urban transport solutions," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 15(6), pages 405-412, November.
    2. Cohen, Galit & Nijkamp, Peter, 2001. "ICT policy in European cities: a comparative approach," Serie Research Memoranda 0025, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
    3. Maryska Milos & Doucek Petr, 2015. "Requirements for Cios' Competencies in the Czech Economy," Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 62(3), pages 411-424, November.
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    5. Emmanouil Tranos & Peter Nijkamp, 2013. "The Death Of Distance Revisited: Cyber-Place, Physical And Relational Proximities," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(5), pages 855-873, December.
    6. Emmanouil Tranos & Peter Nijkamp, 2014. "Digital infrastructure and physical proximity," Chapters, in: André Torre & Frédéric Wallet (ed.), Regional Development and Proximity Relations, chapter 8, pages 267-290, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    7. Galit Cohen & Peter Nijkamp, 2002. "Information and Communication Technology Policy in European Cities: A Comparative Approach," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 29(5), pages 729-755, October.
    8. Niina Nummela & Kaisu Puumalainen & Sami Saarenketo, 2005. "International Growth Orientation of Knowledge-Intensive SMES," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 3(1), pages 5-18, January.
    9. Grant-Muller, Susan & Usher, Mark, 2014. "Intelligent Transport Systems: The propensity for environmental and economic benefits," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 149-166.

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