Fleet Car-Sharing – The B2B Market Business, or corporate, carsharing can reduce the impact of private vehicle fleets provided for business purposes. The popularity of carsharing has increased dramatically over the past years, and it is becoming known…
Bicycle Sharing – about, types, pros and cons Bikesharing schemes enable users to access bikes on an as-needed basis in urban areas. This can facilitate the use of cycling rather than other non-sustainable modes of transport. Bike sharing stations are…
Mobility as a Service Mobility as a Service (MaaS) involves buying mobility services based on consumers’ needs instead of buying the means of transport. The platform provides an intermodal journey planner, a booking system, a single…
Mobility habit resilience Mobility innovations and new products and services are foreseen to dominate future mobility. Yet, there are certain barriers to the acceptance of future mobility systems and innovations, such as people’s existing habits.…
The future of deliveries With the rise of e-commerce, we reduce the amount of movements of people (when going shopping), but we increase the number of movements of ‘stuff’ (e.g. consumer goods). Technology and applications to…
Mobility as a Reality Concept The key features that will define future activity spaces: Mobility visions can no longer be separated into ‘physical trips’ and ‘virtual trips’ on the internet and other communication media. The division between…
New relationships between activities and locations Currently, one of the important devices that collects data and transforms it into digital maps is the mobile phone. The Digital Skin (Jagdish, Re-Mapping the City) can be comprised of many different…
New layers of information New technologies create new layers within the urban environment; layers of information that can be overlaid on a cartographic representation of the city. These new layers of dynamic intelligent information can spur…
Big Data One major influence of ICT is the ability to manage and interact with the transport system in real time. Initially there was strong ‘top down’ development of sophisticated traveller information systems, using…
Status quo bias and travel behaviour People have a tendency to stick with the status quo. They often forego opportunities for improving their situation, without even giving consideration to these opportunities. Status quo bias may be more pronounced…
Nudges in Transport The central message of the behavioural economics approach to policy making is that there are many situations where people run the risk of acting against their own interest. As a result, transport…
Financial incentives to change behaviour: To what extent are they effective? Imagine that you want to convince people to reduce their car-use and switch to using public transport. What would you do? In policy-making, financial incentives have long been debated to be effective…