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The Multi-Agent Transport Simulation MATSim, ISBN:978-1-909188-77-8, ISBN:978-1-909188-75-4, ISBN:978-1-909188-78-5, ISBN:978-1-909188-76-1

In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices: thermostats, pressure gauges, pollution detectors, cameras, microphones, glucose sensors, EKGs, electroencephalographs. These will probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, our ships, highways and fleets of trucks, our conversations, our bodieseven our dreams ....What will the earths new skin permit us to feel? How will we use its surges of sensation? For several yearsmaybe for a decadethere will be no central nervous system to manage this vast signaling network. Certainly there will be no central intelligence... some qualities of self-awareness will emerge once the Net is sensually enhanced. Sensuality is only one force pushing the Net toward intelligence. These statements are quoted by an interview by Cherry Murray, Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Physics. It is interesting to outline the timeliness and highly predicting power of these statements. In particular, we would like to point to the relevance of the question What will the earths new skin permit us to feel? to the work we are going to discuss in this paper. There are many additional compelling questions, as for example: How can the electronic earths skin be made more resilient?; How can the earths electronic skin be improved to better satisfy the need of our society?; What can th e science of complex systems contribute to this endeavour?"

The introduction of AV- and drone-related mobility services in SUMPs is expected to result in multiple impacts on European metropolitan areas. Although many challenges hinder the introduction of new AV- and drone-related mobility services, some solutions are also envisaged to address the economic, legal and societal consequences of their implementation in SUMPs. The present deliverable D1.2 “Stakeholder requirements and scenarios for regional spatial and transport planning” reports on the methods used to organise HARMONY first cross-metropolitan workshop in M6 and the methods used to collect stakeholder requirements. It also presents and analyses the findings and the scenarios designed during the workshop. The document aims at guiding S&T WPs within HARMONY and at advancing the identification of challenges and opportunities in terms of regional and transport planning, multimodality and integration of traditional and new mobility services at the European level. Additionally, this deliverable will represent a useful reference tool to organise stakeholder engagement activities within HARMONY and beyond.

Identifying changes in the spatial structure of cities is a prerequisite for the development and validation of adequate planning strategies. Nevertheless, current methods of measurement are becoming ever more challenged by the highly diverse and intertwined ways of how people actually make use of urban space. Here, we propose a new quantitative measure for the centrality of locations, taking into account not only the numbers of people attracted to different locations, but also the diversity of the activities they are engaged in. This ‘centrality index’ allows for the identification of functional urban centres and for a systematic tracking of their relative importance over time, thus contributing to our understanding of polycentricity. We demonstrate the proposed index using travel survey data in Singapore for different years between 1997 and 2012. It is shown that, on the one hand, the city-state has been developing rapidly towards a polycentric urban form that compares rather closely with the official urban development plan. On the other hand, however, the downtown core has strongly gained in its importance, and this can be partly attributed to the recent extension of the public transit system.