Possible Governance Structures for Dealing with Transitions in Mobility: A case study on Intelligent Mobility for the Greater Copenhagen area

The transport market is changing and new technologies and services are fundamentally changing the way we use trans- portation. The concept of Intelligent Mobility promises to put users and their experience at the heart of service with mobility services being built around them. The Greater Copenhagen area in Denmark is experiencing these changes...

Mobility-as-a-Service: Exploring Consumer Preferences for MaaS Subscription Packages Using a Stated Choice Experiment

While urbanisation has increased and more efficient means of mobility are required, consumers are decreasingly interested in owning cars. One solution to meet people's mobility needs is to provide mobility as a service (MaaS). This study looks into consumers’ preferences on monthly MaaS packages and tries to identify the most important factors...

Mobility-as-a-Service from a health perspective: Exploratory research into the potential health impacts of MaaS

Due to current, ongoing mega trends such as continuing urbanisation and expanding population size, pressure on our urban transport system is increasing, resulting in more congestion, emissions, noise pollution and stress, among others. Transport is seen as one of a range of factors outside of health and medical fields which are known to impact...

Unraveling the Dynamics of MaaS: An Exploratory Study on the use of System Dynamics for the analysis of Pricing Interventions in MaaS Systems

Traffic congestion has proven to be a wicked problem that is affecting people's economy and health. Until now, traditional policies have not yet been able to solve the problem entirely. To tackle such a challenge, new innovative measures are needed. Mobility as a Service (MaaS), a new paradigm in mobility where all modes of transportation are...

Free-floating bikesharing in Mobility as a Service

The aim of this graduation project is to determine how Mobike can be successful in the Netherlands in the short-term and how Mobike can be successful in the long-term. To answer these questions, in this project research has been conducted on the users of Mobike. Next to that the environment of Mobike has been analyzed, after which a vision has...

Travel Choices in Integrated Mobility Platforms

This research investigates the travel behavior of users of an integrated mobility platform. Passive revealed preference data is collected from a smartphone application for integrated mobility. This data, consisting of the choices in a multimodal journey planner, allows evaluating travel behavior in integrated environments with high ecological...

Investigation of travel behaviour on a multimodal Mobility-as-a-Service hub within a closed user area

Hely has developed Mobility as a Service (MaaS) through multimodal Hubs,<br/>which are offered within closed-user residential areas and made accessible<br/>through an application. This exploratory study aims to assess people’s mobility<br/>behaviour by the usage of Hely in a closed user group. It focused on two<br/>aspects: the indication of (1)...

Mobility-as-a-Service: Miracle or Misfortune?: Assessing the effects of monthly bundles on travel behavior change in the Netherlands with a combined stated adaptation and stated choice experiment

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a new concept that is expected to make multi-modal travel more seamless, by integrating a variety of different transport modes on a platform, accessible on demand for which monthly bundles can be bought. The hopes of MaaS are that due to the simplicity of the service, and the plethora of alternatives being offered...

A Blockchain-based Mobility as a Service concept design with the adoption of Autonomous Vehicles: An exploratory study of the most elemental systems, requirements and possible configurations

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to introduce numerous changes, opportunities, and innovations in mobility services, environment, data, value networks, and economy, among others. These automated vehicles are expected to impulse a disruptive change in society, especially within transport technology economics, travel behavior, and network...

Exploring MaaS Business Models on Strengths, Weaknesses and Sustainability

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a new mobility concept that allows users to plan, book and pay for a multimodal and seamless trip in a single application. Real-life examples of MaaS propositions are still scarce and most have not left a trial or pilot phase. The MaaS-team of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) wants to...

MaaS for commuting trips: Potential for success or deception?

The promises of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) are generous, researchers and policymakers repeatedly present MaaS as a Holy Grail. MaaS has the potential to play a role in addressing issues as pollution, congestion and crowded cities. However, without interested users, these promises cannot be fulfilled. This study explores whether the proposed...

Mobility as a Service from an equity perspective: Exploratory research into the potential deepening or diminishing effects of MaaS on transport related social exclusion

In 2014 Hietanen envisioned Mobility as a Service (MaaS), which is a global hype ever since. The relatively new mobility concept, MaaS, is suggested to meet the mobility needs of the end-users in a sustainable, affordable and user’s flexible manner (MaaS Alliance, 2019). Even though the MaaS sympathizers claim an improvement for the travelers...

A roadmap towards a passenger-oriented public transport tariff system

The currentpublic Dutch transport tariff system is complex and difficult to understand forthe passenger. It is assumed that passengers feel like they are not getting the“best price”, but do not have the means to validate this. Furthermore, there isa large offer of tickets and subscriptions available which can lead...

Mobility as a Service applied in residential areas: Stated Choice experiment in the context of Dutch cities

This research has the goal to analyse the influence of neighbourhood characteristics on people’s willingness to adopt Mobility as a Service (MaaS) instead of the car for new residential areas. It estimated the influence of a reduced parking comfort, MaaS-hub availability and aditional quality of the overall neighbourhood on the willingness to...

2030: A Future Vision and Concept for Vanmoof

The foundation of this graduation project lies in the future mobility sector, and will be performed in collaboration with Vanmoof Bicycles. Within this thesis the future context of mobility will be considered with respect to the changing societal landscape. The project will be concluded with a concept and prototype for Vanmoof. This physical...

An optimized Design for a shared vehicle Service

LeasePlan Tripp is a new Service proposition that answres major changes the mobility and fleet management industry is facing. Before the Tripp pilot went live in February 2021, several questions emerged: How could the Tripp Service be improved and scaled up effectively? Therefore, this graduation project assignment was raised: “Design an...

A design vision and strategy for a user-centred high quality public transport network in 2040

The high quality public transport network implemented by R-net, short for Randstadnet, follows a product formula on multiple public transport modalities (bus, tram, metro, and train) and acts as a quality mark. R-net is a collaboration between six public transport authorities and nine operators. However, currently R-net is confusing the...

Shared Mobility Hubs in Urban Developments: A qualitative research on how developers can steer on the integration of shared mobility hubs within urban development.

Over the last decade, shared mobility has more often become a part of urban development. Studies are increasingly pointing at mobility hubs as a vehicle to deliver shared mobility, often from a viewpoint within the mobility sector. However, shared mobility hubs have to a lesser extent been studied in relation to urban development. As far as the...