Mobility as a Service and Public Transport: A Rapid Literature Review and the Case of Moovit

Georgina Santos () and Nikolay Nikolaev
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Nikolay Nikolaev: School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3WA, UK

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is often proposed as a tool for achieving sustainable mobility and, in particular, increasing the share of public transport trips in cities. In this paper we conduct a rapid review of the literature on MaaS and, using Moovit as a case study, we explore the association between the popularity of searches in Google using the term “Moovit” and the share of workers that commute by public transport. The exercise focuses on metropolitan areas in the United States over the period 2010 to 2019. We find a positive correlation, and we speculate that metropolitan areas with pre-existing higher shares of workers commuting by public transport tend to be metropolitan areas where use of Moovit is more likely.

Keywords: mobility as a service; sustainable transport; public transport; public transit; sustainable mobility; shared cars; shared mobility; shared bicycles; road transport CO 2 emissions; transport integration, urban mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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