Design and evaluation of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) subscription bundle

• Autor(a) principal: Suárez, Sofia Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/36431
• topic: Mobility as a service; MaaS bundles; Multimodal transport; Stated preference survey; Emissions

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) has been considered a promising solution for more sustainable travel behaviour. This study aims to propose an approach to designing MaaS bundles and evaluate it by examining the potential of a regional-driven MaaS subscription plan. In this work, specific analyses arising from stated preference surveys launched on two different cities in the Centro Region of Portugal, namely Aveiro and Coimbra, were conducted to characterise user intentions in adopting the proposed MaaS bundles and to evaluate the associated impacts in terms of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions. The results point to a preference for bundles that offer unlimited travel on public transport and, due to the efficiency of the public transport network in the Coimbra region, in this region, 72% of respondents showed a willingness to use the bundles, while in the Aveiro region the intentions to use were 62%. Results show an uptake of 62% in the Aveiro region and 72% in the Coimbra region. An analysis of the impacts of the bundles on gas emissions indicates a reduction of up to 90% in CO₂ and 68% in NOx emissions in the optimistic scenario while considering a more realistic yet limited scenario, there were found emission savings, on average, of 50% for CO₂ and 45% for NOx emissions. The study demonstrates that simple changes in travel habits, such as a shift from private cars to public transport or smooth mobility, due to the availability of MaaS bundles strongly affect the negative travel impacts.