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…
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…
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…
Travel demand modelling and Prospect Theory According to Prospect Theory, the value people attach to goods depends on their relevant reference point. People tend to value goods more if they already possess them (‘loss aversion’). Prospect theory raises…
The social constraints people face are key to understanding travel behaviour Travel decisions are sometimes or partly made at the level of a group instead of being made by an individual. For instance, parents do not just travel from home to work, but…
‘Soft’ transport measures should reflect people’s social networks and build on these networks People have a tendency to compare with others when making decisions or evaluating the consequences of these decisions. For instance, people may stick with travel habits (such as commuting by car) even…
Evolving mobility As mobility is evolving more into a service, we are seeing an increase in additional layers of service, content and commerce that bring value or vitality to the journey. Some argue that…
Do semi-collective (or alternative) transport services have the potential to transform our cities? In parallel with “official” public transport, there exists a multitude of “semi-collective” transport services, such as Demand Responsive Transit (or paratransit), jitneys (or dollar vans), and shuttles. With the emergence of innovative…