Clean mobility: Embracing multimodality View original post. I think everyone would agree when it comes to using transport, the daily decisions that we make matter. The di¬fferent modes of transport that we choose play a significant role in providing overall connectivity, shaping our urban areas, impacting travel safety, space allocation, respiratory health and much more. Opting for walking, cycling and collective modes of transport …Read More
Mobility-as-a-Service manifesto launched View original post. A global manifesto has been launched ahead of European Mobility Week by Ito World to demonstrate how Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has the power to unlock a greater number of opportunities for populations in cities across the world. ‘The MaaS Manifesto: Accessing your city’s potential’ shares the expert views of Ito World’s CEO Johan Herrlin and insight from academics and European government …Read More
Let’s enable Mobility as a Service (MaaS) View original post. An introduction to VMC GO — The perfect marketplace for human mobility In this post we explain how our infrastructure enables these rights for both users and providers of Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Whereas several private and centralized attempts to unlock these rights have failed, a decentralized approach won’t. Mobility is a public service as much as …Read More
App instead of Car? View original post. Mobility is changing. In the future, the private car should become increasingly unimportant, instead new services should make passenger and freight transport cheaper, more environmentally friendly and faster. The private car is a discontinued model, the goods car is replaced by the service “promotion”. “Mobility as a Service (MaaS)” is the name of this vision of the near future …Read More
MaaS providers need to lure drivers away from private cars View original post. New mobility models have to provide an irresistible vision, not just a practical alternative, to lure drivers away from private cars. By Jonathan Manning Mobility as a Service (MaaS) providers need to exceed both the practical and emotional elements of car ownership if they are to woo customers, according to a leading advocate of new mobility options. …Read More
Mobility as a Service: Moving from mobility asset ownership to mobility access View original post. If you are growing up in a Western society, your family and your friends’ family most probably owned a car. Particularly ‘dads’ were extremely proud of the car they possessed. It was even common that some families had two cars, so one of the parents could take the children to school or sports practice. Over the years, …Read More
MaaS platforms to replace 2.3 billion private car journeys every year by 2023 View original post. On-demand transportation services will lead to a more efficient use of road vehicles, less pollution, less congestion and seamless journeys. A new study from Juniper Research has found that the adoption of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platforms will replace over 2.3 billion urban private car journeys annually by 2023, compared with 17.6 million globally in 2018. This statistic is …Read More
Ensuring the benefits of vertically integrated MaaS View original post. Cities are starting to see a vertical integration of the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) landscape. A number of companies (see examples of Uber and Lyft) are realizing the opportunity to provide multiple MaaS options to their clients and not only focus on one part of the mobility pie. Rideshare, bikeshare, e-scooters, etc. all have the possibility of on one …Read More
Helsinki leads in Mobility as a Service View original post. The research company predicts that the growth of Mobility as a Service in the US will be slower because of the fragmentation of the state and federal system Take up of mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) platforms is expected to replace more than 2.3 billion urban private car journeys annually by 2023, a new study finds, which also ranked the …Read More
Scottish Government commits £2m to testing mobility as a service View original post. The Scottish Government has committed £2m to testing mobility as a service (MaaS), as part of its 2018-19 programme. “This concept has the potential to transform the way we use transport,” it said, “making public and shared transport options as desirable as owning our own car”. Models being developed include using personal smart devices, such as phones …Read More
Will our roads eventually be accident free? A look at accident-preventing technology There was a total of 25,160 people killed or seriously injured because of a …