A Novel Development Scheme of Mobility as a Service: Can It Provide a Sustainable Environment for China?

Zipeng Zhang and Ning Zhang
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Zipeng Zhang: School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Ning Zhang: School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 8, 1-19

Abstract: Mobility as a service (MaaS), a new concept of transportation, is regarded as an effective solution to prevalent urban traffic problems because of its sustainable development properties such as sharing, integration, humanism and low-carbon. However, progress from pilots to large-scale implementation has hitherto been slow especially in China. In this paper, we propose a new alliance-based framework of development scenarios for the Chinese MaaS system. At the same time, by distinguishing the experience and lessons between the UbiGo project in Sweden and Whim project in Finland, we summarize that the key to the success of prior pilot projects is the cooperation of industry alliance, government policy support, and data sharing mechanism. Moreover, this paper also proposes some MaaS solutions for the obstacles of alliance-based cooperation, data resource sharing, business model selection, operation conditions, development path, policy support and other aspects in China.

Keywords: MaaS; development scenarios; comparative analysis; pilot experience (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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