Impact assessment of rural PPP MaaS pilots

• Main Authors: Jenni Eckhardt, Arttu Lauhkonen, Aki Aapaoja
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2020-09-01
• Series: European Transport Research Review
• Subjects: Mobility as a Service; Public-private partnership; Rural; Impact assessment
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12544-020-00443-5

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present the impact assessment results of Mobility as a Service pilots based on public-private collaboration. In the pilots, companies and local and regional stakeholders joined their expertise to experiment with different ways of organizing mobility services in rural areas. The pilots included demand-responsive transport and integrated transport of different user groups and combining trips that include customers paying themselves and those being publicly subsidized. In addition to the call centre service, a smartphone application was introduced. The impact assessment of these pilots spans individual/user, business/organizational and societal levels. The main findings include improved accessibility of transport services in rural areas and resource efficiency in terms of improved occupancy rates of vehicles, reduced driven kilometres and emissions, and cost savings for the public sector.