The MaaS Responsive City: How the New Transport Revolution Can Contribute to a Better Urban Environment

While connectivity, decarbonisation, automation and the sharing economy are shaping the current transport revolution, the multiplication of mobility services at a fast pace through digital platforms is quickly impacting our commuting habits. As MaaS and transport technologies are rapidly evolving towards digital integration of multimodal fleets and journeys, policy makers and urban planners can feel overwhelmed about how to best integrate these changes and define the policies that will channel them to evolve towards a more sustainable mobility. These transition issues take a new dimension with the COVID-19 outbreak. The session will explore how the next phase of – digital and spatial – intermodality (MaaS/Public/Private Transport) can play a key role in the synergy between urban transport policies, innovative planning, mobility services and the implementation of automated vehicles. The first intervention (Sebastien Goethals, Cititilinks) will illustrate how “intermodality 2.0”, integrating new mobility services, public transport and walkability can lead to better transport policies and street design. From digitized and integrated parking management to ‘Space-as-a-Service’ oriented transport hubs, it will illustrate a potential future for more liveable streets. The second intervention (Scott Shepard, Iomob Technology Services) will explore the digital dimension of intermodality, going through a massive disruption, including seamless travel, digital ticketing and deep integration. It will illustrate the evolutions of the MaaS ecosystem in the near future and their evolution on urban mobility as a whole. The third intervention (Carlos Holguin, AutoKab) will explain how to assess the impacts of different types of automated road transport services in different urban contexts, to help city officials build, assess and prioritize their AV planning actions. The objectives of this session are to: • Understand the next phase of MaaS development and integration as a challenge and opportunity for rethinking cities and street design in a post-COVID19 period • Identify how cities, decision-makers, planners and designers can anticipate the new transport revolution (connectivity, decarbonisation, automation, sharing) • Understand how digitized intermodality targeting all modes will transform the ecosystem of urban mobility • Understand the potential impacts of automated road vehicles in different urban and mobility contexts