Reports
2024
2021
- Slum Assessment for Makassar City: Situation Assessment ReportTiffany M. Tran, Andy Simarmata Hendricus, Jarnhammar Mats, Ruth A. Simanjuntak, Ade Priadi, Efa Sutarjo, Andi Nur Fitri Balasong, Abdul Kharis Musa, Stephen Cairns, Devisari Tunas, Niraly Mangal and Rina WulandariManila: Asian Development Bank, 2021.
The SlumAssessment forMakassarCity is a technical assistance report prepared by the LSIP consultant team for ADB. Its purpose is to provide a needs assessment of slum communities in Makassar City to: 1) complement the Ramboll team’s development of the Makassar Livable City Plan; and 2) to provide the Government of Makassar City with key data and tools to prepare urban investment project proposals toward creating a livable city. The report’s intent is to take a neutral and inclusive approach to this task.
- Urban resilience assessment of Cirebon City: Situation Assessment ReportTiffany M. Tran, Andy Simarmata Hendricus, Jarnhammar Mats, Ruth A. Simanjuntak, Ade Priadi, Efa Sutarjo, Andi Nur Fitri Balasong, Abdul Kharis Musa, Stephen Cairns, Devisari Tunas, Niraly Mangal and Rina WulandariMandaluyong City: Asian Development Bank, 2021.
- Manual on Leveraging Spatial Data for Pandemic-Resilient CitiesStephen Carins, Devisari Tunas, Niraly Mangal, Rina Wulandari and Joris van EttenManila: ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund, 2021.
The ongoing pandemic and its massive economic and social impacts have emphasized the urgency of developing pandemic resilience in cities. And so cities around the world have been forced to reflect on their ability to mitigate, manage and respond to the pandemic. The Leveraging Data for Urban Design and Planning in Post-COVID Cities manual was developed using spatial pandemic-related data from the city of Makassar in Indonesia to support resilient planning in the city and beyond. This manual, serves as a guide for cities to leverage available data to enhance planning policies in the post-pandemic era.
2019
Abstract also in French and English
2018
- Knowledge Map: Smart - Cultural City SingaporeAurel von Richthofen and Ludovica TomarchioSingapore: Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), 2018.
This report compiles a “Knowledge Map” and “Management Summary” for the Goethe Institute Singapore (GI) on ideas, projects and actors of Smart Cities in Singapore. This report contributes to the discourse on urbanisation, in particular to the intersection and convergence of Smart Cities and Cultural Cities that emerge with the availability of social media data, technology and shifting mode of cultural production. The aim of this report is to provide GI with knowledge to enter this discussion and explore potential projects. It will allow to expand GI’s core mission of supporting German language and culture to a wider definition of cultural engagement and knowledge transfer. Within the context of Singapore, the urban-cultural nexus, its rapid transformation through technology, associated challenges and trends are of particular interest to GI. The “Knowledge Map” will allow GI to identify potential areas for growth and meaningful and strategic engagement within the Smart / Cultural Cities discourse in Singapore that overlap with its focus themes 'cultures of urbanity', 'cultures of participation' and 'forming of the future'. The “Knowledge Map” will allow GI to formulate the right future projects in Singapore with FCL and other institutions in Singapore. The research starts with a short review of the main terminology surrounding Smart / Cultural Cities and illustrates these by examples. It highlights the relevant topics to cultural processes such as: participation and governance, data and technology, liveability, ecology. This goes along with a list of research fields addressed, planned and implemented urban projects, actors and institutions, future events in Singapore. It also observe trends in Singaporean policy, socio-demographic and economic indicators that will impact the discourse in the future. The “Knowledge Map” is based on research and portraits of actors – agencies, industries, academic institutions and activist – in Singapore. The literature review and research on actors gave rise to a list of attributes for Smart / Cultural Cities. These attributes are grouped around the topics of Media, Domain, Scale and Interaction. Actors and attributes form a so called bipartite graph. The underlying graph structure can be analysed by an algorithm developed by the Future Cities Laboratory. The result of this analysis reveals new clusters in the actor-attribute network of the Singapore Smart / Cultural Cities discourse. These clusters will be discussed as potential fields of engagement for GI. The map will be produced as large poster A0 size. Additionally, a “Management Summary” as a sequential discussion of the contents of the “Knowledge Map” complements the report in the format of a PowerPoint presentation of around 20 slides. The presentation zooms-in to existing creative efforts, alternative transformation and modes of cultural production.
- Potential of motorcycles as urban means of transportAlexander Erath, Pieter Jacobus Fourie, Michael A.B. van Eggermond and Sergio A. Ordoñez MedinaSingapore: Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), 2018.
The aim of this research project was to include motorcycles as an urban means of transport in the assessment of future mobility scenarios using the large scale, agent-based transport simulation software MATSim. To this end, we implemented a new meso-scopic traffic flow simulation algorithm. Using a simple test network, we demonstrated that the new algorithm allows to reproduce the typical condition of mixed traffic flow where motorcycles can maintain higher speeds than cars at high traffic densities, but still are affected in terms of speed and throughput capacity by congestion. The algorithm is designed for computational performance and hence allows to be used in large-scale simulations which was demonstrated by integrating it into the MATSim model of Singapore. In case study A, the size of the motorcycle fleet in Singapore was expanded by 70%. The simulation demonstrated that those new motorcycles would primarily be used for trips that, in the baseline simulation, are conducted by bus. The simulation results suggest that the average speed does not substantially drop due to the additional motorcycles. As people switching from bus to motorcycles benefit from higher travel speeds, the total time spent in traffic during one day reduces by 7.8%. In case study B, we tested the impact that a new shared eScooter service might have on the mobility patterns in Singapore. The simulation was set up in a way that assumes that, anybody holding a car or motorcycle driving license, can make use of shared eScooters, whose maximum speed is limited to 45km/h. Due to the restricted maximum speed and limited comfort for longer trip durations, the eScooters are primarily used for shorter trips, with the simulated average trip distance amounting to 7.1km. The simulation results show that 25% of the latent demand for such a service is restricted to Singapore’s extended city centre, which only covers about 5% of the island’s surface area.
- Implications of autonomous vehicles on urban form and transport supply: Workshop 1Pieter J. Fourie and Tanvi MaheshwariArbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, vol. 1356, Singapore: FCL, Singapore ETH Centre, 2018.
With continued development and intensification of Singapore, the challenges of increased car usage, traffic congestion, as well as the availability of land for roads become more pressing. A future Singapore that is both sustainable and liveable will need to reduce reliance on cars and work towards a car-lite future, a principle that was endorsed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the Singapore Sustainable Blueprint 2015.
- Bandung Smart SystemsStephen Cairns, Devisari Tunas, Laksmi Darmoyono, Zuzana Drillet, David Neudecker, Michael Joos and Heiko AydtSingapore: Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Singapore SEC; Asian Development Bank, 2018.
- Guidance for the Preparation of Metropolitan Spatial Planning FrameworkStephen Cairns, Devisari Tunas, Miya Irawati, Hendricus Simarmata, Rina Wulandari and Rizqa HidayaniSingapore: Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Singapore SEC; Asian Development Bank, 2018.
2017
The purpose of this study is to compare a set of practices that could best be suited to manage an interdisciplinary, multi-cultural and distributed team. The study contrasts traditional “waterfall” management techniques against agile methodologies such as SCRUM and Kanban. Both methods were tested in real practice in a distributed, multicultural, and inter-disciplinary team known as the CEA team 1 for one year.
2016
2013
This project aims to create a 3D routing model of the pedestrian network of University Town at the National University of Singapore. Its method should be scalable for other cases of larger scale. Furthermore, the time required to map the network should be estimated. UTown was chosen to act as a proof of concept for future efforts to develop a 3D map of NUS, which is available for public use