PROGRAMME

Synopsis:
The world today is facing one of the largest waves of urban growth and expansion in human history. Cities, including Singapore, have to grapple with the challenges of increasing urban density and diversity amidst a series of concerns and considerations involving economic cycles, environmental risks and social changes. While Singapore has managed to grow and develop relatively successfully and rapidly in the last fifty years, it is important to learn and review from the history, and to continue exploring innovative and sustainable urban solutions to deal with the new challenges.

With the increasing complexities cities are facing, it is inevitable that the necessary urban solutions required can no longer to be completed by any single stakeholder or simply fit into any particular vertical in urban research. Tackling urban issues would require a holistic and integrated approach involving engagement between multiple stakeholders. It is in this context that the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) adopts an integrated urban systems approach to understand and explore innovative urban solutions. This would include exploring urban solutions to facilitate active mobility in dense cities, building urban cities with nature and reimagining local planning and community engagement.

Synopsis:
Fujitsu is driving a lot of innovative projects globally. Singapore is one of the most strategic place for that. In the speech, some examples will be presented, addressing “What is important for sustainability from the ICT industry perspective”. The speaker will try to find the answer, together with the philosophy of famous Japanese theorist, Prof. Ikujiro Nonaka."

Synopsis:
One of the most prevalent trends in personal communication and computation in the past few years has been the tremendous growth of the smart device adoption. For example, in most developed countries, the smartphone penetrations have already crossed 40% in 2013, with the top 4 countries over 70%. With such high market penetrations and increasingly sophisticated sensors installed in these smart devices, it's becoming possible to provide highly personal and context-aware services. In this talk, two innovative urban solutions are introduced to allow urban dwellers to request for mobility service and to sell mobility as a service.

In the former case(*), we focus on how to make mobility-on-demand (MoD) services more efficient and more integrated with traditional modes of public transport (such as bus, train, or mass transit). In two separate studies, we show that: 1) a decision support system can help increasing the service level of MoD services even when all providers are self-interested; and 2) ride-sharing-based MoD service is promising for last-mile transfers (i.e., moving from public transport hubs to final destinations).

In the latter case(**), we investigate the problem of large-scale mobile crowdsourcing, where a large pool of citizen crowd-workers are compensated to voluntarily perform a variety of location-specific urban logistics tasks. We propose TRACCS, a coordinated task assignment approach (as opposed to the decentralized approach that is universally adopted at the moment), where the crowd-tasking platform assigns a sequence of tasks to each worker, taking into account their expected location trajectory over a wider time horizon, as opposed to just instantaneous location. Through simulations with realistic topologies and commuting patterns, we demonstrate that our approach increases the fraction of assigned tasks by more than 20%, and reduces the average detour overhead by more than 60%, compared to the current decentralized approach.

*: Includes joint works with Pradeep Varakantham, Asrar Ahmed, Duc Thien Nguyen, and Hoong Chuin Lau.
**: Includes joint works with Cen Chen, Aldy Gunawan, Archan Misra, Hoong Chuin Lau, Koustuv Dasgupta, and Deepthi Chander.

Panelists
Ms Katharina Tomoff
Vice President Shared Value | GoGreen at Deutsche Post DHL Group
Dr Lieven Demeester
Associate Dean (MBA Programs), Singapore Management University
Mr Arun Madhok
Chief Executive Officer, Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre
Mr Ryoichi Yamaura
Vice President, New Solution Business Division, Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd
Dr Shih-Fen Cheng
Associate Professor of Information Systems, Singapore Management University

Moderator:
Mr Karmjit Singh
Chairman, The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport - Singapore