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The importance of user perspective in the evolution of MaaS

Lyons, Glenn; Hammond, Paul; Mackay, Kate

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Glenn Lyons Glenn.Lyons@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Future Mobility

Paul Hammond

Kate Mackay



Abstract

The rapid emergence of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) into the transport sector’s lexicon has brought with it an air of expectation that suggests a future mobility revolution. This paper focusses on the user perspective and offers a deepening of socio-technical thinking about MaaS and its prospects. It first provides an examination of what is understood to date about MaaS in what is a new but rapidly evolving body of literature. This highlights the concept of MaaS as a ‘mobility system beyond the private car’ and the new centrality of a ‘mobility intermediary’ layer in that system. The paper then focuses and elaborates upon its contention that MaaS is neither new nor revolutionary but is rather an evolutionary continuation in terms of transport integration. Emerging from an era of unimodal travel information systems becoming multimodal and then integrated multimodal information services, MaaS is now about adding seamless booking, payment and ticketing to the integration offer. The paper puts forward a ‘Levels of MaaS Integration (LMI) taxonomy’ analogous to the level 0-5 SAE taxonomy for automation of road vehicles. This taxonomy, designed around the user perspective (including cognitive user effort), concerns operational, information and transactional integration that it is suggested reflect a hierarchy of user need. From a synthesis of insights from the ‘pre-MaaS’ literature concerning choice making for travel and the role of information, a MaaS behavioural schema is provided to illustrate potential consideration and adoption of MaaS from the user perspective. In concluding, the paper considers what a user perspective reveals for the future prospects of MaaS and in particular for the mobility intermediaries.

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Lyons, G., Hammond, P., & Mackay, K. (2019). The importance of user perspective in the evolution of MaaS. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 121, 22-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.12.010

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 10, 2018
Online Publication Date Jan 10, 2019
Publication Date Mar 1, 2019
Deposit Date Jan 16, 2019
Publicly Available Date Jan 16, 2019
Journal Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (Special Issue on developments in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and intelligent mobility)
Print ISSN 0965-8564
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 121
Pages 22-36
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.12.010
Keywords Mobility as a Service, MaaS, user perspective, taxonomy, travel behaviour, integration
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/849821
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.12.010

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