Synopsis: Mobility as a Service is becoming central to the development of smart cities. Adoption of new transport offers is rapid, but understanding their overall, cumulative impact on urban microcosms is limited. That is what DG Cities aims to answer. Through the development of a mobility service performance index, DG Cities will attribute a measure to any mobility service in a given urban ecosystem. The framework will provide a vantage point for decision makers, enabling an analytical ranking of services by prioritizing a city’s objectives. DG Cities is building an articulate appraisal scheme that is tailor-made for the future of transport.

Synopsis: With the mobility behavior of passengers changing from using private cars to shared mobility offers, airports are under pressure to make up for lost parking revenue. Being operators of MaaS platforms would afford airports more control managing landside access. At the same time, airports could help the surrounding region gain convenient city access. Can airports serve as mobility hubs for the region and foster economic growth by providing mobility services? MaaS platforms could also play an important role in the management of traffic movements related to airport staff, which put considerable pressure on airport access infrastructure.

Synopsis: The presentation will discuss how to make MaaS sustainable, and will outline the measures that cities can implement: transforming the planning system, mobility allowances and incentives.

Synopsis: The session will sketch an exciting picture of our future urban and suburban mobility. The main goal of this session is to support cities and regulators in preparing their responses and actions regarding these emerging, prominent services. The session also aims to show how drones will contribute toward integrating local communities and urban areas, enhancing the mobility network and answering real urban needs. Last-mile transport, passenger mobility, emergency use cases and traffic management will all be discussed, as well as issues on the governance of drone operations in the urban environment.

Synopsis: The mobility landscape in cities is transforming rapidly. Discrete, siloed, narrow definitions of transportation are giving way to broader, more inclusive and sustainable concepts of mobility. The future of mobility will be highly integrated, electric and autonomous, and will be aimed at improving the user travel experience. Strategic collaborations among important stakeholders, both public and private, in terms of operating models, car usage, multimodal journey planning and payment options will drive smart mobility objectives in cities.

Synopsis: For car manufacturers, but also suppliers and new entrants, autonomous, connected, electric and shared vehicles provide both challenges and opportunities. The challenge for the future of mobility will be in brand redefinition and identity. Many companies are already discussing the move from being car manufacturers to transport service providers, and how customers will change their perspective on what they are buying or using. This is an opportunity, not the end of the road.

Synopsis: Finnish capital city Helsinki aims to make private vehicle ownership redundant by 2025, and other cities will follow. By offering a digital service that integrates the entire transportation network and end-to-end journey planning, transportation will be made highly convenient and cashless. This presentation will examine MaaS and what it means to all automotive manufacturers and new mobility providers offering services such as carsharing, ride hailing or last-mile transportation operations of the future. The challenges of integrating and regulating so many forms of transport and so many providers will be considerable.

Synopsis: For car manufacturers, but also suppliers and new entrants, autonomous, connected, electric and shared vehicles provide both challenges and opportunities. The challenge for the future of mobility will be in brand redefinition and identity. Many companies are already discussing the move from being car manufacturers to transport service providers, and how customers will change their perspective on what they are buying or using. This is an opportunity, not the end of the road.

Synopsis: Finnish capital city Helsinki aims to make private vehicle ownership redundant by 2025, and other cities will follow. By offering a digital service that integrates the entire transportation network and end-to-end journey planning, transportation will be made highly convenient and cashless. This presentation will examine MaaS and what it means to all automotive manufacturers and new mobility providers offering services such as carsharing, ride hailing or last-mile transportation operations of the future. The challenges of integrating and regulating so many forms of transport and so many providers will be considerable.

Synopsis: Hyperloop technology has the potential to revolutionize travel. It promises massively reduced journey times, lower capital costs and better energy efficiency. It is also expected to bring significant agglomeration benefits – claims that, coupled with the ability to 'virtualize' existing transport hubs, have caught the imagination of the market. Considerable work is underway to make hyperloop technology a reality, but what role will it play in future transport provision? L.E.K. Consulting examines the challenges aspiring hyperloop operators and investors must deal with before the technology can become a reality: overcoming technology barriers; pricing, public subsidy and commercial feasibility; and timing of roll-out.

Synopsis: Mobility services across the board are facing a revolution. Changing attitudes to private vehicle ownership and increasing pressure on the economics of mobility mean that the transport industry is experiencing unprecedented disruption from a technology enabler – Mobility as a Service (MaaS). What is MaaS, when should we anticipate its arrival, and what benefits will it bring for consumers and transport providers? L.E.K. examines the key factors driving MaaS, the roles that different parties will play in the MaaS ecosystem, opportunities for consumers and transport authorities, and the imperatives for governments and private mobility suppliers to consider their positioning.

Synopsis: Targeting mobility that will be inclusive, multimodal and MaaS, the city architecture should dramatically change (car park, roads, etc), which also implies changes in our society and way of living. By fully digitizing the city through multisensors and connectivity, the overall traffic can be managed in a predictive and adaptive way. Moreover, city architecture can evolve according to citizen needs and city manager strategy. Open innovation, co-construction and shift of power are some key enablers as well. Indeed, we figured out a model based on our numerous experimentations on autonomous transportation projects and long-time involvement in smart mobility.

Synopsis: In its recent publication 'Recommendation on a User-Centric Approach for MaaS' (published in April 2019), the MaaS Alliance has identified a number of factors as pivotal for the MaaS user, affecting both the digital and physical user experience. The whole transport sector has a unique opportunity to redesign the ecosystem to be something better, more user-friendly and more inclusive than it has been to date, and this framework can be used to identify the complex variety of individual user needs and requirements.

Synopsis: Urban mobility is rapidly changing. New mobility services are expanding quickly, putting pressure on traditional public transit. Cities are challenged to embrace mobility innovations, but also ensure that these novel mobility services serve the overarching public mobility strategy. With the advent of autonomous driving, taking an active role becomes ever more important for cities. Digitization enables cities to strengthen their position as mobility orchestrators by building an integrated urban mobility ecosystem and flexibilizing traditional public transit via the means of demand-responsive transit. This paper discusses the key ingredients in the successful implementation of a city-operated on-demand MaaS landscape.

Synopsis: This presentation will deal with the lessons from the integration of Sparelab's (Vancouver) GoPass on-demand technology MaaS app in Dallas, Texas, which won APTA's 2019 Innovation Award. It will discuss the organization and expansion of the currently 14 sub-zones (more than 25 are planned) in the periphery of Dallas, where a flexible on-demand service feeds passengers into high-frequency light-rail trunk lines. It will also deal with the design of a user-centric consultation and booking process for journeys with flexible and fixed legs, plus mixing fleets of dedicated operator-owned vehicles and undedicated privately owned taxis to deliver on-demand service in peak hours.

Synopsis: The debate on micromobility has recently been dominated by the safety challenges where there are no clear compliance and traffic law frameworks to regulate use now or in the future. Operators have demonstrated that the most active part of the population wants an increased offering in urban mobility. One topic that has not been sufficiently addressed is how micromobility has the potential to transform the lives of people who would not be considered ‘active’ users and who are currently underserved by new mobility innovations. Based on his long experience with light electric vehicles, wheelchairs and personal mobility devices, Nicola will talk about what he calls the advent of inclusive micromobility and how this will likely impact the way we will all move around in the city of the future.

Synopsis: In today's mobility industry, everyone is fighting for the user, not realizing that the battle they should be focusing on is the bustling city. Trafi, a technology platform for mobility, and BVG, the main public transport company in Berlin, are forming a new partnership aimed at connecting the entire mobility system in the city. This is the first time that a European city the size of Berlin has deeply integrated an entire mobility network, spanning public and private operators, in order to make it easier for people to access and use different types of transport.