AaaS and MaaS for reduced environmental and climate impact of transport

16 pages•Published: May 10, 2018

Anna Kramers, Tina Ringenson, Liridona Sopjani and Peter Arnfalk

Abstract

In this paper, a set of indicators is presented that aim to identify promising service innovations for Accessibility as a Service (AaaS) and Mobility as a Service (MaaS); services that potentially can reduce the demand for transport and optimize use of transport infrastructure and vehicles in urban regions. The proposed indicators characterize service innovations from three different perspectives: 1) Is the service innovation environmentally sustainable? Does it reduce negative impacts on the environment (reduce carbon emissions, use of space), 2) Is it rewardable? Is value created for an organization? Does it make use of new sustainable business models, and 3) How widely is the service spread? How many users are there, what is the geographic distribution and what level of societal transition has occurred? The developed indicators are meant to guide policy makers, decision makers, business developers and academia in the prioritizations that need to be made when allocating land and resources to the most promising and powerful innovations, moving towards more environmentally friendly mobility and accessibility. The next step will be to test the indicators to identify and categorize existing and emerging new services, ideas, pilots and prototypes. The results of this second step will be presented in our next article.

Keyphrases: aaas, accessibility as a service, climate impact, digital access, maas, mobility as a service, sustainable mobility, urban mobility

In: Birgit Penzenstadler, Steve Easterbrook, Colin Venters and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (editors). ICT4S2018. 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability, vol 52, pages 137-152.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/Jcb7
	https://doi.org/10.29007/cx17

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ICT4S2018:AaaS_MaaS_reduced_environmental,
  author    = {Anna Kramers and Tina Ringenson and Liridona Sopjani and Peter Arnfalk},
  title     = {AaaS and MaaS for reduced environmental and climate impact of transport},
  booktitle = {ICT4S2018. 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability},
  editor    = {Birgit Penzenstadler and Steve Easterbrook and Colin Venters and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {52},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/Jcb7},
  doi       = {10.29007/cx17},
  pages     = {137-152},
  year      = {2018}}

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