An ontology-based approach for harmonizing metrics in bike network evaluations

IF 7.1 1区 地球科学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Ayda Grisiute , Nina Wiedemann , Pieter Herthogs , Martin Raubal
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Abstract

The urgency to decarbonize the transportation sector has accelerated the adoption of micro-mobility solutions, with cycling network development witnessing remarkable growth. Robust and quantitative evaluation frameworks are needed to evaluate the quality of such developments. While a plethora of bike network evaluation approaches exist, their diversity creates issues of interpretability and comparability due to varying metrics and domain-specific terms. We present three contributions to address these challenges. First, we construct a formal ontology, VeloNEMO, that captures key attributes of evaluation metrics for harmonizing bike network evaluation metrics. Second, we generate a machine-readable knowledge base containing these metrics, enabling meta-analyses and resolving some of the existing terminological discrepancies. Third, we propose recommendations for transparent and comparable metric descriptions across various evaluation approaches, illustrated by exploratory metric selection scenarios for a forthcoming bike network evaluation tool. In summary, our research addresses the need for a structured and shared vocabulary for bike network evaluations. This ontology-based approach aims to improve the coherence of evaluation methods as the field of bike network planning continues to evolve, ultimately supporting decision-making for sustainable transportation planning.

基于本体的自行车网络评估指标协调方法
交通领域去碳化的紧迫性加速了微型交通解决方案的采用,自行车网络的发展见证了显著的增长。我们需要可靠的定量评估框架来评价此类发展的质量。虽然存在大量的自行车网络评估方法,但由于衡量标准和特定领域的术语各不相同,它们的多样性造成了可解释性和可比性问题。为应对这些挑战,我们做出了三项贡献。首先,我们构建了一个正式的本体--VeloNEMO,它捕捉了评价指标的关键属性,用于协调自行车网络评价指标。其次,我们生成了一个包含这些指标的机器可读知识库,使元分析成为可能,并解决了现有术语的一些差异。第三,我们为各种评估方法中透明、可比较的指标描述提出了建议,并通过即将推出的自行车网络评估工具的探索性指标选择方案进行了说明。总之,我们的研究满足了自行车网络评估对结构化共享词汇的需求。随着自行车网络规划领域的不断发展,这种基于本体的方法旨在提高评估方法的一致性,最终为可持续交通规划决策提供支持。
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CiteScore
13.30
自引率
7.40%
发文量
111
审稿时长
32 days
期刊介绍: Computers, Environment and Urban Systemsis an interdisciplinary journal publishing cutting-edge and innovative computer-based research on environmental and urban systems, that privileges the geospatial perspective. The journal welcomes original high quality scholarship of a theoretical, applied or technological nature, and provides a stimulating presentation of perspectives, research developments, overviews of important new technologies and uses of major computational, information-based, and visualization innovations. Applied and theoretical contributions demonstrate the scope of computer-based analysis fostering a better understanding of environmental and urban systems, their spatial scope and their dynamics.
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