How Mobility-as-a-service affects Municipal Budgets

There is still disagreement regarding what defines Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) as a business model, and research on how the implementation of MaaS would affect municipal budgets is limited. Many argue that to be successful, MaaS will have to develop a model that will be able to balance public and private providers in a sustainable manner [1], [2], but currently no such path exists. Doubts around the implementation of MaaS have been exacerbated by the recent failure of MaaS global [3]. The limited existing research on the budgetary impact from MaaS is based on revenue allocation models of economic spillovers from the deployment of such systems globally, rather than the direct impact of the presence of a MaaS system in a specific municipality [4].

References

  1. C. Mulley and J. Nelson, “How Mobility as a Service Impacts Public Transport Business Models,” OECD, Paris, Oct. 2020. doi: 10.1787/df75f80e-en.

  2. D. A. Hensher, C. Mulley, and J. D. Nelson, “Mobility as a service (MaaS) – Going somewhere or nowhere?,” Transp. Policy, vol. 111, pp. 153–156, Sep. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.07.021.

  3. National Center for Mobility Management, “Does the Collapse of Maas Global and the Whim Travel App Signify the End for MaaS?,” National Center for Mobility Management. Accessed: May 16, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://nationalcenterformobilitymanagement.org/news/does-the-collapse-of-maas-global-and-the-whim-travel-app-signify-the-end-for-maas/

  4. M. Kamargianni and M. Matyas, “The Business Ecosystem of Mobility-as-a-Service,” Transportation Research Board. Accessed: May 16, 2024. [Online]. Available: http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/175528.aspx

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Note: Mobility COE research partners conducted this literature review in Spring of 2024 based on research available at the time. Unless otherwise noted, this content has not been updated to reflect newer research.