Public Transport in Future Cities: Mobility as a Service, real-time ride-sharing and automated vehicles

Kurzfassung

Digitalization and the technological development enables new innovative solutions with respect to individualization, flexibilization and optimized usage of transportation systems. Integrated mobility solutions combine transportation services from different providers, organized on one platform for arranging and managing the trips. Multiple modes of transport are integrated into a seamless trip chain with bookings and payments managed collectively. To further improve the effectiveness of mobility solutions the gathered data can be used for the trip-planning to become more efficient, and to support decision-making for government and local authorities regarding improvements in regional public transport systems. The possibilities of managing transport demand by concentrating and optimizing trips in real-time facilitates on-demand services. In the future self-driving vehicles can support this specific use case, with on-demand services being more affordable with autonomous vehicles.