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Book SynopsisInventing Mobility For All: Mastering Mobility-as-a-Service with Self-Driving Vehicles explores ‘Mobility-as-a-Service’ and explains the impact of this mobility concept on social and societal life, as well as on global travel behaviours. In this volume, Andreas Herrmann and Johann Jungwirth powerfully illustrate that mobility is a fundamental human right that can best be fulfilled with new autonomous vehicle development and use, showcasing how these forms of mobility will improve accessibility for the disabled, aid protection for the environment and to open how we design our cities in completely new ways.
Trade ReviewMobility-as-a-Service can make a decisive contribution to improving the traffic situation in many megacities. MaaS concepts are already being tested in numerous Chinese cities. We are on the threshold of implementation. This book vividly illustrates the idea, concepts and implications around Mobility-as-a-Service, making an important contribution to better mobility - for cities, for people, for the environment.
-- Prof. Dr. Zheng Han, Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Sino-German School for Postgraduate Studies (CDHK), School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai.
Mobility-as-a-Service is an opportunity to completely rethink our cities. Roads and parking lots can be repurposed or deconstructed and used for living spaces, playgrounds or denser mixed-use development and affordable housing. This book describes numerous approaches so that in the future we build our cities around people and not cars. -- Gabe Klein, Founding Partner of Cityfi, Venture Partner at Fontinalis Partners, and former Commissioner of the Chicago and Washington DC Departments of Transportation.
Table of ContentsPart 1: Mobility, Prosperity and the Environment
Chapter 1. Can We Still Go Places?
Chapter 2. Mobility Means Prosperity
Chapter 3. Social Costs of Mobility
Chapter 4. All Just a Misunderstanding?
Part 2: Into the Cities
Chapter 5. The Rush to the Cities
Chapter 6. More and More Traffic
Chapter 7. The Cities Fight Back
Chapter 8. What Is Happening in Rural Areas?
Part 3: Radical Change in the Auto Industry
Chapter 9. A Disintegrating Supply Chain
Chapter 10. Autonomous, Electric and Connected
Chapter 11. All Together Now
Part 4 - Outlook for Mobility-as-a-Service
Chapter 12. Making Mobility Better
Chapter 13. Nothing Works Without Apps
Chapter 14. Reinventing the Value Chain
Chapter 15. Multimodal Transportation
Chapter 16. Pods and Shuttles
Chapter 17. But Will It Be Profitable?
Chapter 18. A Wager on the Future?
Part 5 - What Customers Want
Chapter 19. If Wishes Were Horses
Chapter 20. Going Places, But Differently
Part 6 - What Companies Can Do (And Need To)
Chapter 21. What Matters
Chapter 22. Wanted: A Business Model
Part 7 - Cities Lead the Way
Chapter 23. Ideas, Projects & Visions
Chapter 24. There Is Another Way
Part 8 - What Are the Benefits of Mobility-as-a-Service?
Chapter 25. Jobs and Prosperity
Chapter 26. More Life, Less Traffic
Chapter 27. Mobility For All
Chapter 28. New Locations, New Nations
Part 9 - What Will It Take to Make It Work?
