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Mobility as a service and public transport
Published in Corinne Mulley, John D. Nelson, Stephen Ison, The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport, 2021
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is a digital concept that centres on integrating traditional public transport with other types of mobility services such as carsharing and ridesourcing. In recent years, MaaS has become a much-discussed topic within the transport industry. Proponents contend that MaaS can make it easier for users to combine multiple mobility services into customised offerings that match their individual mobility needs. Accordingly, they argue that MaaS can decrease the perceived need of owning private cars (for some) and thereby reduce the lock-in effect of car ownership and support a modal shift away from private cars to active mobility, public transport, and other mobility services that build on shared vehicles and/or rides. Such a modal shift could potentially address some of transport systems’ pressing sustainability problems, like congestion, car parking, and carbon dioxide emissions. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, MaaS has, moreover, been brought forward as a concept that can improve transport system resilience. MaaS is thought to strengthen the ties between mobility service providers and help users shift between different modes of transport, thus making it easier for both groups to quickly adapt to changed circumstances.
Cyber Security Considerations for Automated Electro-Mobility Services in Smart Cities
Published in Hussein T. Mouftah, Melike Erol-Kantarci, Sameh Sorour, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Smart Cities, 2020
Binod Vaidya, Hussein T. Mouftah
With the advent of modern transportation, shared mobility services [1] such as free-floating car-sharing, peer-to-peer (P2P) car-sharing [2], and ride-sharing or ride-hailing, yield viable alternatives to traditional public transport or taxis and personal cars. Mobility as a Service (MAAS) is the buzzword for modern transportation services in the smart cities since shared mobility services have exalted probable environmental, social, and economic benefits of reduced road traffic and parking congestion, reduced vehicle ownership, increased public transit ridership, reduced vehicle meters traveled (VMT), and minimized greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Shared mobility shall support multi-modal transport services that include first/last mile connections between outlying communities and public transit services [1].
Disruptive and Emerging Technologies in Highway Safety
Published in Subasish Das, Artificial Intelligence in Highway Safety, 2023
There is an increasing demand for smart mobility solutions to lower negative environmental, social, and economic externalities of private automobile travel. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is an integrated system that allows commuters to use a single online interface to book, plan, and pay for trips with a range of mobility providers. MaaS uniquely provides a system wherein traditional transportation modes can be integrated with new service options, making it a possible alternative for private vehicle ownership and a way to overcome some negative externalities of automobile dependency. Many cities have implemented—or are working on implementing—MaaS trials to understand better how this service will function in cities, in order to realize this potential. A systematic literature review was utilized to extract insights and develop a conceptual framework to detect risks and barriers related to MaaS adoption in cities. Supply strongly impacts transport demand, especially with shared transport services where availability is frequently limited. Since observed demand can’t be higher than available supply, historical transport data generally shows a biased, or censored, version of the actual underlying demand pattern. The paradigm of Mobility on Demand (MOD) has been emerging with good potential for providing convenient individual mobility. Increasing the occupancy rate of MOD by ridesharing (companies such as Uber, Lyft, Ridecell, Bird, Lime, Capital Bikeshare) is considered a necessary prerequisite for sustainable future mobility. However, both MaaS and MOD have risks and vulnerabilities, such as security issues, privacy distortion, and roadway safety issues (i.e., child-seat usage during Uber or Lyft rides).
The Smarthubs integration ladder: a conceptual model for the categorisation of shared mobility hubs
Published in Transport Reviews, 2023
Karst Geurs, Anna Grigolon, Karla Münzel, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, David Duran-Rodas, Benjamin Büttner, Christoph Kirchberger, Jesse Pappers, Lluis Martinez Ramirez, Antonia Graf, Julia Hansel, Roxani Gkrava, Roman Klementschitz
The Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) promise is to deliver digital integration of mobility option – – planning, booking, and payment using a single app or platform. MaaS is thus relevant for hubs: it makes it easier to use different transport modes and to improve digital access to the services of different providers present at the hub. The most important aspect of MaaS is that it relies on a digital platform (mobile app or web page) where travellers can access various aspects such as trip planning, payment, and real-time information (Jittrapirom et al., 2017). Note that a MaaS platform typically aims to integrate mobility services at a city or region level, and the amount of shared mobility offerings integrated in a city or region is likely to affect the uptake of the platform and thus the use of shared mobility at a specific mobility hub.
An eco-aware framework for AI-based analysis of contextually enriched automotive trip data
Published in Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 2023
Ivana Gace, Hrvoje Vdovic, Jurica Babic, Vedran Podobnik
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) appears as a new transportation solution that take advantages of information and communication technology in order to improve current transportation and reduce environmental pollution (Jittrapirom et al. 2017). MaaS combines different modes of transportation (taxi and private cars, public transportation, etc.) and makes them available to passengers in an integrated place like a mobile application. A first initial example of MaaS is ride-hailing services like Uber or Bolt, where the focus is on private vehicles. Private vehicles are ubiquitous in transportation and their reuse and/or sharing with other participants is one of the biggest challenges in realizing MaaS (Arias-Molinares and Carlos García-Palomares 2020; Gace and Babic 2020). Except for the private use, cars are present in different transportation options, they are used by taxi companies, rental cars and car sharing options.
Measuring the transit benefits of accessibility with the integration of transit systems
Published in Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 2023
Hyun Kim, Keumsook Lee, Woo-kung Huh, Yena Song
As a final note, policy implications can be drawn from our findings. In this study, two major transit modes were considered, and their systematic integration benefitted users. To connect accessibility benefits to mobility benefits, various last-mile travel modes should be further integrated as a form of MaaS (Mobility as a Service; McKenzie 2019; Ziedan et al. 2021). In Seoul, for example, various shared travel modes (e.g. traditional and electric bikes and electric scooters) are accessible near transit stops but are separately operated and managed, which is an issue that this study was unable to address. Once those separate systems are integrated into one system, research should explore how mobility is enhanced, particularly in relatively under-served areas, to resolve the potential disparity in mobility among areas.