Smart City L’Aquila: An Application of the “Infostructure” Approach to Public Urban Mobility in a Post-Disaster Context

Figures & data

Figure 1. Post-earthquake changes in the spatial structure of L’Aquila: new settlements and the abandoned historical core. Sources: 2011 Census; Protezione Civile, 2016

Table 1. Modal split of trips to work and study in L’Aquila, before and after the earthquake. Sources: Comune dell’Aquila, 2012; Istat, 2016

Means of transport	Commutes by purpose
	Work		Study
	2001	2011	2001	2011
Automobile – total	79.5%	91.9%	56.2%	68.8%
Automobile – driver	–	86.6%	–	13.4%
Automobile – passenger	–	5.3%	–	55.4%
Motorcycle/motor scooter	1.0%	0.5%	3.4%	0.8%
Train	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
Bus	3.5%	3.2%	24.4%	26.3%
Bicycle/pedestrian/not declared	16.0%	–	16.0%	–
Bicycle	–	0.1%	–	0.1%
Pedestrian	–	3.9%	–	4.0%
Other	–	0.2%	–	0.1%

Figure 2. Example of information linked to the bus stops in the database and provided to passengers on selected stops. Source: AMA

Figure 3. The geo-referenced bus stops and bus lines of L’Aquila. Source: authors' elaboration

Figure 4. Example of timetable for a line with a number of sub-lines. Source: AMA

Figure 5. Spatial accessibility of the bus network in L’Aquila. Source: own elaboration

Table 2. Number of bus lines accessible from census tracts and new settlements. Source: authors’ elaboration

No. of Accessible Bus Routes	Population in Census Tracts	Percentage of Population	CASE and MAP Projects	Percentage of Projects
null	329	0	–	0
one	11598	17	19	50
two	14223	21	14	37
three	16090	24	5	13
four	2474	4	–	0
five	786	1	–	0
six	3265	5	–	0
seven	1192	2	–	0
eight or more	17007	25	–	0

Figure 6. Architecture of the proposed software

Figure 7. Routes menu

Figure 8. Trip planner form, route visualization on map, and textual representation of itinerary

Figure 9. A screenshot of our GTFS editor

Protezione Civile, “Case–Complessi Antisismici Sostenibili ed Ecocompatibili” (2016). <http://www.protezionecivile.gov.it/jcms/it/view_dossier.wp?contentId=DOS274> Accessed June 6, 2016.

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