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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 .
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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 .