The future of city transportation
Cities will be home to almost 60% of the total population by 2025. That is 4.5 billion people. This puts extreme pressure on urban planners and transportation systems alike to accommodate this explosive growth.
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Transportation’s contribution to the total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States
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The time that most cars spend parked. Consider the forgotten cost of parking.
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Transportation’s contribution to the total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States
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Of the world’s population will be city dwellers.
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What does this mean for us?
The way we currently commute and move around our cities is bothersome at best and painful at worst. The litany of problems we experience from harmful levels of pollution, traffic jams with angry horns and shouts and unreliable buses and trains are now just a routine part of urban life, and things could get much worse The pace of population growth and the tools to address this growth have never been so misaligned.
In short, cities are facing an urgent and unique set of challenges to address a fundamental part of city living: getting around. Accordingly, new business models and technologies are emerging to meet this mobility challenge head on.
Prime among them is Mobility as a Service or MaaS. MaaS is a manifestation of new thinking around how transportation services are currently provided and used. It can remedy many issues that affect our cities and respond to the challenges generated by new technology and consumption trends in the 21st century, but only if it is properly implemented, responsibly managed and well executed.
Mobility Trends
Autonomous
Driving
Battery &
Powertrain
Technologies
Connected
Networks
Shared
Mobility
New Business
Models based on
mobile technologies
Accenture research shows that by 2030, revenues from manufacturing and selling vehicles (around €2 trillion) will be only marginally higher than they are today, and that profits from car sales will actually slightly shrink from approximately €126 billion to €122 billion. By contrast, revenues from mobility services are projected to soar to almost €1.2 trillion – with profits reaching as high as €220 billion.
EVERY MODE OF TRANSPORT IN A SINGLE APP
Meep solution
You can personalize all aspects of your trip. Move faster when you are in a rush to an important appointment. Move cheaper If saving money is your number one priority when you commute. Move greener Choose the most environmentally-friendly route.
MaaS Characteristics
Sustainable / Clean
Mobility as a Service moves more people in a cleaner, faster and less expensive way, reducing the toxic heavy congestion and capacity restraints we see now. MaaS provides an alternative to the private car that may be just as convenient but infinitely more sustainable and green. It allows safer options like bicycle and pedestrian lanes, electric vehicles, car sharing and rail freight to replace traditional modes, each of which leave an indelible mark on our environment. MaaS helps society thoroughly utilize existing resources rather than depleting more.
Intermodal Seamlessness
MaaS is erasing the boundaries among private, shared and public transport. By aggregating both public and private providers within a single platform, MaaS enables customers to seamlessly book and pay for any mode of transportation they choose in one transaction. We are creating new routes with higher efficiency, less cost and more flexibility across all mobility providers instead of just one at a time. New mobility will also incorporate a combination of self-driving vehicles, shared vehicles and high-quality public transit.
Ticketless TravelClean
A key component of any MaaS model is ticketless travel. Using a smartphone as the credential, a user will be able to enter and exit all transportation modes required for any given journey by validating the ticket virtually. Different types of transport will still have different forms of authentication, but MaaS finds a way to bypass the variety and its resulting inconvenience by creating a single ticket for all. Translation? No more waiting in lines, fare and ticket confusion, dealing with different ticketing systems and above all, no missing your ride.
Efficient Payment
The goal: one trip, one payment – regardless of how many transport providers make up the route. If a single trip includes a train, bike and cab, pay for all three at one time, in one place: your smartphone. Today, this same trip would require the passenger to pay separately for each leg according to different fare structures, but MaaS is helping consumers to pay for different modes of transportation with a single account instead of many. A single system to handle payments, refunds, discounts and passes. That is MaaS.
Based on your preferences
MaaS moves toward a more user-centered mobility paradigm. Most current journey planners suggest routes based on static schedules and outdated information simply because real-time data either does not exist or has not been shared. Preferences like timing, comfort, cost and convenience cannot be adjusted even though every customer is different. The user is not at the center of mobility. Alternatively, the MaaS system provides accurate routes based on user preferences and real-time operator information integrated in a single platform. The network tailors itself to what users want, when they want it and how they want it by offering more choices and more convenience.
MaaS Participants
City Hall
Private Operators
Technology
Local Transit Agency
