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A Review of Use Cases of Gamification in Mobility Systems and Services

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Nowadays, Mobility, in all its dimensions (transport mobility, sustainable mobility, active mobility, and Mobility as a Service (MaaS)), is an essential dimension in sustainable development goals, allowing to increase in the quality of life, the health, the social inclusion and to reduce climate action in any society. To increase the citizens’ awareness and promote a true behavioral change, the citizens need to feel part of the process. Gamification has proved to be effective in raising citizens’ awareness, encouraging their participation, and promoting a gradual but profound behavior change in various areas such as participatory governance, tourism, culture, education, etc. Gamification can also propel a Smart Living Society 5.0 among the younger groups of the society, especially in the context of academic communities that are more knowledgeable and eager to foster a healthier, more sustainable, and more inclusive society. Smart Living Society 5.0 is an activity in the scope of the TECH - Tecnologia, Ambiente, Criatividade e Saúde - a project of NORTE 2020, focusing on creating an Academic MaaS (AMaaS). At this stage, it is essential to know about gamification use cases related to new mobility solutions and practices. The paper presents successful cases of mobility systems and services that consider gamification to promote and incentivize their use concerning active mobility and sustainable mobility; it discusses the potential of gamified systems to achieve a gamification proposal approach to implement in the AMaaS under development.

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This work is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Regional Operational Program North 2020, within the scope of Project TECH - Technology, Environment, Creativity and Health, Norte-01–0145-FEDER-000043.

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    Luís Barreto & Sara Paiva

  2. Instituto Superior de Engenharia Do Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4249-015, Porto, Portugal

    António Amaral

  3. INESC TEC—Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    António Amaral

  4. Departamento de Sistemas de Informação, Universidade Do Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4804-533, Guimarães, Portugal

    Teresa Pereira

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Barreto, L., Amaral, A., Pereira, T., Paiva, S. (2023). A Review of Use Cases of Gamification in Mobility Systems and Services. In: Nathanail, E.G., Gavanas, N., Adamos, G. (eds) Smart Energy for Smart Transport. CSUM 2022. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23721-8_29

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