Transport: A New Beginning

The New Transport Economy

A New Beginning For Earths Cities

An overview of aLargescale Transport Operating System by Eric Masaba of Crane Dragon

This presentation describes how transportcan be adapted to better serve humanity in the21st Century and how a system that performs all the functions described has already been designed, tested and deployed in real conditions. The presentation will take at mostabout 8 minutes (at 3 - 5 seconds each page)

If you are not familiar with Texxi or the DRT Exchange, please see the list of furtherpresentations at the end of this presentation.

Texxi allows strangers (or friends) to share seats invehicles they have dynamically summoned in order toboth save money and reduce congestion ● That summons rides in vehicles (multi-modal) ● With a search application for social transit (to find ridematches in realtime) That calculates CO2 and pollutant emissions ● Which congestion charges per vehicle seat ● And optimises roadspacetime and provides real-time outputs to urban authorities ● Provides a viable mobility alternative to owning a private car without limiting freedoms

Did you know that shared travel is the default modeof mechanised transport for most of human history

MyanmarDid you also know that it is still the norm in mostcountries of the world even today

Matatu - Nairobi, Kenya

Kampala, Uganda

Dolmus, Turkey

Did you also know that theaverage car is used for less thanone hour a day and carries onlyone passenger for 90% of trips Source: Susan Shaheen and Daniel Sperling

Did you also know that the taxi business is the onlysector of the transport industry in which customersstill regularly post pay for their rides?

Post-Pay: that means youride first then you pay Exposing the operator to credit risk

Can you imagine an airline in which thatwas normal practice? $1,300 please

And speaking of airlines, did youknow that it costs more totravel per mile in a Hackney cab inLondon than it did flying to New Yorkon Concorde ?

And back

2002 Concorde Ticket PricesReturn trip: London - New YorkCost £6,800 (FY2002)Miles: 6,000Cost per mile: £1.13Heathrow to Central London Cab FareOne Way (1 - 5 people)Miles: 24Cost: £42 - £80Cost per mile: £1.75 - £3.33Best cost (avg 2 ppl): £1.24

That the cab-ride from centralLondon to Gatwick airport costs more

Than it does to fly to Munich

YesMunich!

SE23 toOne way taxi fromGatwick Airport: £72.00

The taxi fare one-way can costmore than the return flight+ beer

Why is that ?

Could things be any different in the transport business ?

Could things be done any better?

So whats the big idea?

Getting strangers to share ridesin vehicles on a large-scale

Dynamically - as in "On the fly"

by pre-summoning their ride in avehicle type of their choosing

with stated preferences for their co-ridersand situational ambience

What are you smoking?

UK National Travel Survey 2010 Population 73m Cars - 28m Average Occupancy(all modes) - 1.6 Average annual car mileage - 8,430 Average annual # trips per person -960 Average distance of trip - 7 miles Average distance travelled - 6,726 miles Most of the decline in overall trips rates between 1995/97 and 2010 can be accounted for by a fall in shopping and visiting friendsTrips by car (as a driver or passenger) accounted for64% of all trips made and 78% of distance travelled http://assets.dft.gov.uk/statistics/releases/national-travel-survey-2010/nts2010-01.pdf in 2010

We have not only proved thatdynamic, real-time ridesharing isnot only theoretically possible

but have achieved it in practice in real lifesituations with real paying customers

People used their mobile devicesto hail a vehicle for a shared rideand travelled to a common set ofdestinations together

with wait times (headways) of aslittle as 5 minutes

We are thus proposing a whole new way to look at transport systems in urban areasin order to make use of the "river of emptyseats" available in most city vehicle fleets

Liverpool 2006: March - September Fridays and Saturdays 22:00 - 03:00

135 trips

Ryde, Isle of Wight 2008: July - December Fridays 22:00 - 03:00Ryde Taxis 01943 811 111Fleet Size: 200Licence Type: Private Hire:Proprietor: Andrew YounieFinder: Matthew Burden

700 tripsAs in on 700 occasions strangers summoned a sharedride in a taxi by mobile phone message

Instead of owning a car, could the average person make each of those 960Imagine trips per year by shared vehicle - whether taxi, shared car from a car club, rented car or carpool UK National Travel Survey (2010) Cars: 28m Avg Occupancy: 1.6 Avg Trip Length: 7 miles # Trips p.a. 960 Total Mileage: 6,726 Highest Mode Occupancy: 2.1 (shopping) Lowest Mode Occupancy: 1.2 (commuting)

Could we now have atransport system whichbehaves more like anervous system?

That adapts continuously to its customers?

That is highly flexible and responsiveto the ever changing demand patternsof the citizens in a municipality?

Offering the full spectrumof service levels, prices and ride qualities

A choice of various vehicletypes and configurations

For instance, large capacity buses for peak times

but with a preselected group of passengers so the busfunctions like an express bus or luxury vehicle

or optimised for co-ridersengaging in a particular activity

The best vehicle to suit the customers context

A choice of ambience

Choice of ride partner

appropriately equipped vehicles for parents with small children

appropriate vehicles for the mobility impaired

Shared rides for club meets

Transport solutions formedical professionals

Shared rides to help nurses cheaply travelto work at hospitals and group up to travel in order to be able to respond to shift patterns, even if they dont drive

Commuter solutions for co-workers

From a system that is always onAnd always taking bookings

The potential applications are endless

Instead of pandering only to the most common type of personA phenomenon that could bedescribed as "The Short Head"

A transport system could now adequately serveany section of society - including consumerspreviously regarded as "niche"

Eliminate the language and script difficulty ofboth hailing a cab...

and specifying a destination

Innovative, intuitive hailingand billing mechanisms

Catering to tourists andnon-native speakers

Branded transit firms rather than simply taxi firmsor bus companies

The distinction between buses, taxis, limousinesand high end car service firms could finally bemoved to one of simply service level proclivity

Buses could operate almost like taxis - picking uppassengers from nearer their front doors

Or indeed taxis could now be considered to besmall buses, replacing many functions previously fulfilled by scheduled services

With a pre-screened certain subset ofcustomers inside, like business travellers

Activity partners

Or school children

Corporate outings

Businesses could nowattract and retain evenmore custom

and bar or restaurant patrons could now avoidthe hassle of trying to arrange a designated driver

or the hassle of a conviction

Women could opt to travel in women-only taxis for safety purposes

with a woman driver

And how about payment methods?

Could these be done any better?

Credit Cards?

Prepaid Accounts?

Simple Text Messages

Vouchers

And how about options?

As in you pay a small amount upfront to be able to get aspecific ride at a certain price on a specific future date

Or conversely be able to sell a ride thatyou may not be able to use as plannedfor a certain minimum price

Much as howcommodity futuresare traded on exchanges

Which is incidentally where such derivatives found their first large scale uses

More like a currency(futures) exchange Think of buying a ride like you would buy foreign currency for a trip abroad

Or even mobile phone minutes

And Forwards and Futures

Huh again?

Like buying blocks of trips (of a specific quality nd to a certain destination) in advance

Much like how people buy contracts for certainagricultural commodities or oil

Similar to how you might book a hotel room...

or airline seat....

But with the option to payfor the block booking ininstallments rather than allin one go

Rate your ride provider

Rate your travel partners

Rate the overall experience

As when buying airline seats or hotel rooms, know thefinal price of the trip before you even board - based on the destination

And know when your vehicle isdue to leave, since you booked it

Make direct comparisonsbetween providers

And if you cannot use a booked trip or a series of trips- simply sell them back to the exchange Like a trader

That, in a nutshell, is the Transit Exchange ConceptDesigned to make the transport system in a city into aholistic entity - more like a travel operating system

or a "Battlespace"More precisely - a "Travelspace" - withapplications, nodes and protocols

One that finds travel partners for people inorder to make the most efficient use of eachof fuel, time and the roadspace in a city while lowering the (true) cost of movement for all passengers

And while keeping the earningsup for the vehicle operators

Because we are all more connected in ourlives and habits than we may realiseSo we can thus optimise the travelspace and its actors.

This is now no longer science fiction. It has been able to be achieved since the invention and proof of deployment of a Texxi system in 2006 - 2008The future just happened. The future is now.

Thank you for watching

Texxi was invented by EricMasaba in 2004 as a solution tothe predicted trifecta of a creditcrisis, high oil prices andcongestion based on globalgrowth of numbers of bothautomobiles and human beings.It was largely a fluke.At the time of invention, Texxi andCrane Dragon had no affiliation toany institution. Academic orCorporate.

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