New transport technologies and solutions get a lot of press, but how can they help to make the towns and cities we live in better? Here, i explore the opportunities for applying placemaking principles to Mobility as a Service.
6. PLACEMAKING AS A CONCEPTUAL MODEL
Who is currently undertaking delivering Mobility as a Service
solutions, and what are the next phases of the evolution of
Mobility as a Service?
Customer: Chloe Sharp
Deadline: 2/11/2016
Outputs: Slide Deck and Raw Data
17. Access as a
service
Vehicles as
a service
Community
Multi-
Modality
Ubiquitous
Mobility
Services
Commercially
focused
Community
focused
Car-centric
Multi-modality
18. YOUR FIRST STEPS
Mapping MaaS into
your city vision
Think outside
roadside technologies
in street design
strategies
Make placemaking
everything you do
Build placemaking
capacity in your
communities
Build the tools, not
the solution
Placemaking at the
heart of mobility
technologies
Technology is not
a sticking plaster
Don’t get
distracted by the
technology
Companies result
from communal
efforts
Strategic
Practical
Fundamenta
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Part of my role is to look for opportunities for technologies
Firstly, who has actually heard of Mobility as a Service?
Concept that gets said a lot, quoted a lot, but seems to mean everything to everyone
Thinking about it, you may have seen this diagram?
The whole mobility package – all of your mobility options from just a single app. One payment, all options
You may have seen a reference architecture
We deal with this a lot
But to me, the idea is simple. It is about delivering mobility to people in one place, personalized to their needs
This can take many forms
Solutions going for multi-modality
Example here is Whim – extremely practical
Transport companies are also looking to shift their business into this space
Ford is notable example through investments and mergers
Lots of things driving it
Pain points on journeys, new technologies, users
There are big claims being made about what this means for the future of transport. The end of ownership, more convenient!
Modelling is Lisbon of shared use mobility concluded, the same amount of mobility, but with 10% reduction in traffic
All very good. But for me, too technical, too transport
For me, Mobility as a Service needs to be something more
One of these aspects, is making better places
Placemaking covers many things – involving local communities, drawing on inspiration to create people-friendly public spaces
Habitat III put it at the heat of the new urban agenda
We have thought about placemaking is in fields of urban design, street design and usage, community engagement techniques
Merging with transport policy objectives around congestion, air quality
We have thought about this in terms of impacts on space
It is much more than simply reducing car use
It is about engaging with the philosophy of placemaking. Generating truly bottom up solutions
Technology and placemaking are natural bedfellows
Technology is already being used to support placemaking initiatives
Community engagement, and engagement with the principles of technology
This isn’t just about crowdsourcing, but about using technologies to generate interest, and get people into places
Next slide, show you the most important person who has done this in the last 5 years
Starbucks has PokeStops in each of its cafes worldwide – using a game to visit a place
Impact: Up to an extra 1500 steps per day taken by Americans, or a 25% increase. Across age groups and life stages too!
Why can’t MaaS enable this?
The impact of technology on our experience of the public sphere is no longer something of experimentation, but something of actuation. It is here, it is now
Need to move beyond the roadside real time, important as it is
Technology need not provide a direct interaction, but enables people to experience a place. What a role MaaS could play
How can community intelligence add to MaaS platforms to achieve community goals
To encourage people to visit a place
Opportunities from the democratisation of technologies: Developing tools and techniques to deliver new insights into mobility planning. Looking at the works of Mobility Lab
My vision of Community-based multimodality
Community intelligence
Community-based services
Community shaping