Periodic Reporting for period 2 - MyCorridor (Mobility as a Service in a multimodal European cross-border corridor)
Reporting period: 2018-12-01 to 2020-11-30
1: Integration of MaaS vehicles into a multimodal service chains platform;
2: Provision of a new business paradigm, actor & model for pan-European cross-border adoption;
3: Proof of concept of the new business model & integrated platform by selected UC’s & performance of full operational analysis & impact assessment through interconnected European corridor of Pilots.
- To reduce the overall number of trips equating to a -55% in the overall amount of trips with respect to the baseline situation;
- To deliver a modal shift in favour of bus and cycling modes represented by 15% and 10% increases in the use of bus and cycling modes respectively;
- To increase the number of multimodal trips, i.e. +6% increase in the number of multimodal trips with respect to the baseline situation;
- To result in a minor positive change in attitude toward the use of shared mobility options based on the results of Likert-type questions to travellers.
The modal shift implied translates in an increase in customer numbers and bike sharing modes. Still, a worsening of the overall accessibility to transport services (i.e. bus, rail) perceived by MyCorridor users was estimated, which may have been triggered by the current pandemic situation, whilst negative to negligible impacts for individual total travel time (+5% compared to the baseline) and travel cost (+18% compared to the baseline equating to +6 min delay experienced by travellers by average compared to baseline) were estimated. A significant reduction in CO2 emissions from road-based transport activity (-23%) was also revealed. Concerns around data sharing and interoperability, and lack of national / local political support were seen as the most relevant barriers to impact. Policy was most necessary for equitable and standardised data sharing and governance. While MaaS can support the COVID-19 recovery by providing travellers with new types of information (e.g. crowding / social distancing), it can be assumed that the pandemic may offer a significant opportunity for MaaS to enter and reshape travel.