Monitoring of energy transition of Dutch mobility: a knowledge value added approach

Panel: Panel 8: Transport and mobility

Authors:
Koos Zagema, Pernosco
Geert Thijssen, SenterNovem
Joost Koch, SenterNovem
Remco Hoogma, SenterNovem

Abstract

Dutch energy policy aims to realize sustainable mobility. The Netherlands choose to use a transition approach. The Platform for Sustainable Mobility (with members from car companies, oil organizations, lease companies, pressure groups and the government) drafts strategic agendas to realize sustainability, analyze and remove bottlenecks for market introduction and set up experiments. The transition approach has the ambition to fundamentally change the Dutch mobility system in the long term. No clear goals are set in the short run, therefore the standard approach of monitoring and evaluating is not applicable. In this paper we develop and apply another approach to the activities of the Platform for Sustainable Mobility: a knowledge value added approach.

The approach developed in this paper links elements from knowledge management literature and the added value literature to obtain an approach for the monitoring of the added knowledge value of the Platform for Sustainable Mobility. Starting point is the addition of knowledge value according to the knowledge value circle: development, consolidation, transfer and application. The circle relates in a comparable way all, objectives, issues, instructions, and events. While solving issues knowledge is consolidated according to an object model from knowledge management literature. This so called knowledge value added approach helps the Platform to justify their progress in the state of the art of the Dutch Mobility System. The approach is applied to the case of clean buses. Monitoring and evaluating this case has helped the Platform to add more knowledge value and therefore become more effective.