Mobility as a service (MaaS): Charting a future context

This overview article proposes a revised approach to improve the urban realm, against the backdrop of new models for delivering transport services as digitalisation, collaborative consumption and autonomous technologies take hold. The authors propose the concept of modal efficiency illustrated through a conceptual framework situating both existing and emerging modes of transport around spatial and temporal dimensions. This framework helps the authors evaluate how the push towards smaller and more flexible transport services in questionable settings can have significant and adverse effects on road capacity, increasing congestion and in the longer term impacting urban form. The authors propose linking urban land use characteristics to travel price and modal efficiency to improve the broader transport system and guide the sustainable development of cities. Mobility as a service (MaaS) based on shared mobility and modal integration constitutes a major opportunity to deliver on these ideals, if organised appropriately. Widely diverging service delivery models for MaaS are introduced, including commercially-motivated models (which may exacerbate efficiency issues), and systems which incorporate an institutional overlay. The authors propose consideration of a government-contracted model for MaaS, where road pricing is incorporated as an input into package price, defined by time of day, geography and modal efficiency. Amidst the hype of new mobility technologies and services, a critical assessment of the realm of possibilities can better inform government policy and ensure that digital disruption occurs to the best advantage.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2019.09.030
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856418312229
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  • © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Wong, Yale Z
  • Hensher, David A
  • Mulley, Corinne
  • 0000-0001-7512-7645
• Publication Date: 2020-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 5-19
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 131
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Business models; Contracting; Digital communication systems; Land use; Policy; Road pricing; Shared mobility; Sustainable development; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01722264
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 14 2019 9:30AM