New Mobility Services

Boutueil, Virginie

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-812647-9.00002-0

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“…The remarkable development of Uber has revolutionised taxi services in major metropolises and beyond (even as far as the distant suburbs of North America, cf. [7]).…”

Section: Technical and Spatial Forms Of Urban Mobility 21 Sweeping Tmentioning

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Towards Shared Mobility Services in Ring Shape

Leurent¹

2021

Models and Technologies for Smart, Sustainable and Safe Transportation Systems

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A shared mobility service (SMS) under ring shape would combine the principle of service cycle along a fixed route (as in a transit line) and a fairly important territorial coverage, assuming that every user would accept to walk on some length to and from the service. Thus, service availability can be optimised, detours are avoided, vehicles achieve higher productivity. The synergy between the ring-shaped infrastructure and the vehicle fleet enables to optimise the quality of service in terms of access time and ride time, and also to reduce production costs - and therefore the tariff fares, under suitable regulation. The chapter aims to reveal these ‘systemic qualities’ of ring-shaped SMSs by providing a mathematical model called ‘Orbicity’. It has a four-fold architecture: (i) traffic operations, (ii) supply-demand equilibrium under elastic demand, (iii) service management with endogenous fleet size and fare rate, (iv) service policy in terms of technology (vehicle type, number of places, energy vector, driving technology) and also the regulation regime. After outlining the model for ring-shaped shuttle services, we explore a set of scenarios along two axes of technological generation and regulation regime. It appears that ring-shaped shuttle services could be supplied at very affordable prices, while achieving profitability and requiring no public subsidies.

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“…The remarkable development of Uber has revolutionised taxi services in major metropolises and beyond (even as far as the distant suburbs of North America, cf. [7]).…”

Section: Technical and Spatial Forms Of Urban Mobility 21 Sweeping Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Shared Mobility Services in Ring Shape

Leurent¹

2021

Models and Technologies for Smart, Sustainable and Safe Transportation Systems

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“…Traditional actors in the transport services' industry such as public transport operators have progressively embraced digitalisation to increase the efficiency and the quality of their services while lowering costs (Ampélas, 2001;Davidsson, Hajinasab, Holmgren, Jevinger, & Persson, 2016). At the same time, new players operating shared mobility modes have emerged in the transport services' arena (Boutueil, 2019;Wong, Hensher, & Mulley, 2017), leveraging on advances in ICTs to scale up these modes (Shibayama & Emberger, 2020).…”

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Access denied? Digital inequality in transport services

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Digitalisation in transport services offers many benefits for travellers. However, not everyone is willing or able to follow the new, more or less formal requirements digitalisation has brought along. Existing reviews on the intersection between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and mobility cover a range of vantage points, but the perspective of how various levels of engagement with digital technologies affect access and navigation of transport services has not been addressed yet. In communication science, studying disparities in terms of ICT appropriation and their consequences is known as digital inequality research. This review paper aims at shedding light on what digital inequality in the context of transport services consists of and what its consequences are. To do so, we define and use a conceptual framework for the analysis of digital inequality in transport services. The review of the twenty-five papers, as selected in our systematic literature search, shows that there is a burgeoning interest in this topic. Vulnerability to digitalisation in transport services exists along dimensions of age, income, education, ethnicity, gender and geographical region. We find that motivations and material access get more attention than digital skills and effective usage. Nevertheless, literature acknowledges that having material access to technology does not mean that people benefit from what technology has to offer. Furthermore, the characteristics of ICTs impact one's possibilities to access digital technologies, such as how user-friendly a technology is. Data-driven and algorithm-based decision-making present a particularly pernicious form of digital exclusion from transport services. As digital technologies are progressively becoming indispensable to navigate the world of transport services, low levels of digital engagement may create a new layer of transport disadvantage, possibly on top of existing ones. Although digitalisation can be part of the solution to transport disadvantage, it can also be part of the problem. With network effects at play, what might start as a relative disadvantage may turn into an absolute disadvantage. Given the nascent state of research on digital inequality in transport services, much remains to be understood. Suggested research avenues include mechanisms of digital exclusion from transport services, the contribution of digital ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Since the 2000s, shared mobility has been growing steadily in the countries of both the Global North and the Global South, filling the gaps left by historical modes of transport-traditionally divided into private cars (or individual transport), public transit, and for-hire services (i.e., taxi, limousine transport, car rental)-through service diversification (1)(2)(3)(4)(5). From 2007 to 2010 the number of cities with car-sharing services increased from 600 to 1,100 worldwide (6,7).…”

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“…''Shared mobility'' is commonly accepted to refer to the shared use of vehicles (i.e., cars, vans, scooters, bicycles, airplanes, or boats), for the same trip or not, over a short or a medium period of time, on an ''as needed'' basis (3,5,8,9). Existing classifications for shared mobility cover different sets of services, and they sometimes use different taxons for the same travel mode (Table 1 and Appendix 1).…”

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Trends in Competition among Digital Platforms for Shared Mobility: Insights from a Worldwide Census and Prospects for Research

Boutueil

Nemett

Quillerier

2021

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Mobility systems in metropolitan areas in both the Global North and the Global South have entered an era of rapid change since the early 2010s under the influence of mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs). Mobile ICT-based shared mobility platforms have been filling some of the gaps in transport supply left by historical modes of transport (i.e., private cars, public transit, and for-hire services). Shared mobility digital platforms are a subcategory of mobility applications that give individual customers direct and full access to one or several shared mobility services. Based on a worldwide systematic census, this paper documents the diversity of services provided by such platforms, then analyzes the trends in geographic distribution and competition among platforms across the world’s metropolises. It proposes a new classification of shared mobility services. Since innovations in shared mobility are also taking a leading place in the Global South, future research avenues in this field are discussed in an effort to break away from the prior focus of the scientific literature on the Global North. The census brings out four original findings. First, the rise of shared mobility digital platforms is a worldwide metropolitan phenomenon transcending the traditional distinction between the Global North and the Global South. Second, emerging countries have become clusters for innovation and competition among platforms. Third, three types of shared mobility digital platforms are identified based on geographic reach (local, regional, or global). Fourth, shared mobility digital platforms providing for-hire services are the most widespread in the world.

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New Mobility Services

Cited by 10 publications

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Towards Shared Mobility Services in Ring Shape

Towards Shared Mobility Services in Ring Shape

Access denied? Digital inequality in transport services

Trends in Competition among Digital Platforms for Shared Mobility: Insights from a Worldwide Census and Prospects for Research

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