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CITY EXPERT VOICE
What cities will most
urgently need is a combination
of large-scale transportation
with solutions
such as carpools or ride
sharing, for personal doorto-door
transport. There
needs to be a single app
to integrate access, use,
and billing.
«
PROF. DR. ANDREAS KNIE
Mobility researcher at
WZB Social Science Center Berlin
the private company MaaS Global. In Germany, cities such as Berlin
with its new app BVG Jelbi or Dusseldorf in cooperation with
Moovel are testing the bundling of mobility services. However,
these pilots usually still address only a part of urban mobility as
important mobility providers do not cooperate or infrastructure
is missing. Cities are still struggling to establish an integrated
solution that fully connects different modes of transport.
… BUT UNLOCKING THE MARKET
IS CHALLENGING
So far, there is no solution that connects all
layers of the value chain from infrastructure
to services and manages switching between
different modes of transport holistically.
The reason lies in the enormous complexity: complexity in terms
of technology, the business case and – not to be underestimated
– stakeholder alignment as well as path dependency. The aim is
to connect all stationary and movable objects, and to optimize
them holistically based on the resulting flood of information.
This requires considerable upfront investments not only in research,
but also in infrastructure. The associated risks can only
be managed by developing solutions in close cooperation with
the public sector.