MobiPionier | MCube – Münchner Cluster für die Zukunft der Mobilität in Metropolregionen

MobiPioneer

Mobility budgets and bundles in the Munich metropolitan region as an alternative to regulation

What are we doing?

Testing innovative mobility services for a sustainable transport transition

In the project MobiPioneer we are investigating the potential impact of innovative Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) offerings such as mobility budgets and mobility bundles in Real laboratories for everyday mobility and major events.

Mobility bundle: Combination of certain services at a fixed price.
Mobility budget: Provision of a freely usable amount of money for various means of transportation.

These services are intended to reduce the perceived costs of public transport by Comfort and ease of use via smartphone. The aim is to make public transport more attractive compared to private transport and thus create a Modal shift towards more sustainable options.

How do we do it?

Real-world labs, data analysis and user-centered solutions

Participatory development: Together with relevant stakeholders, we design mobility budgets and mobility bundles.
Scientific approach: We draw up an experimental plan to precisely record politically relevant effects.
Innovative implementation: Using real-world laboratories and state-of-the-art technology, such as smartphone-supported mobility surveys, we analyze the behavior of several hundred participants.

We test mobility services in the following steps

Analyze

We record the current state of research on Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) with a focus on mobility budgets and bundles as well as their potential impact. In addition, an overview of the available MaaS smartphone apps in Germany is being compiled. The insights gained will be incorporated into the concept development of the services and form the basis for the real-world laboratories.

Develop

The offers to be tested, i.e. Mobility bundles and budgetsare being developed. The mobility demand and the needs of society, administration, business and research are taken into account. Through close cooperation with the integration project WiPa the conception is participatory. The most promising variants are selected step by step.

Realize

The services developed are now being technically implemented and the prototypes tested. Preparations are also being made for the use of the services in the real-world laboratories. The operational and scientific process of the real-world laboratories, including the selection of participants, the schedule and data collection (e.g. surveys and mobility behavior surveys), is also being planned.

Perform

In the next step, the Everyday reality lab carried out. Here, the mobility services developed are tested in everyday life and results on their impact are collected.

In addition, the implementation of the Large event real laboratoriesin which mobility services are tested under the conditions of major events.

Evaluate & assess

Finally, the data collected from the real-world laboratories will be analyzed and the central research questions examined:

To what extent can the new mobility services achieve a shift from private transport to eco-mobility? And who in particular can benefit from mobility budgets and budgets?

Who does it?

A motivated consortium of experienced partners from science, business and society work together in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary manner on the pressing issues of our time.