Seattle and King County Mobility Services Planning and Alternative Services Program 2016 APTA Annual Meeting City of Seattle
Definitions Shared mobility: a catchall for any transportation option where users pay for a trip rendered or for the temporary use of a vehicle. It includes scenarios where vehicles are shared continuously continuously among multiple users, or shared among different different individual users for personal use over discrete time time intervals. 2
Definitions Mobility as a service: A concept that emerged in Scandinavia, it is mobility mobility model based on commodifying trips and seamlessly facilitating the sale and purchase trips trips through a common user interface that integrates all modes available. 3
Definitions Commodifying trips: outputs (trips) purchased and sold, instead of users users owning means of production (vehicles). vs Functionality dominates while form, brand, and identity lose importance. 4
20 th Century Public Policy Encourage private vehicle ownership Provide mass transit Regulate taxi industry Protect public safety Private Industry Operate taxis Build vehicles Consumer Publicly-provided transportation Owned vehicles (SOV) 21st Century Private Industry Technology-enabled Low barrier to entry Sharing economy / peer-to-peer Consumer Choice of mobility is expanded Responds and adopts new products Public Policy Govern ROW for emerging forms of shared mobility? 5
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Being driven reduces the disutility of in-vehicle travel ti me
Traditional car share only addresses this issue Traditional use of a vehicle
Study: Shared autonomous vehicles can provide for all travel in Stockholm with <10% of existing fleet Though we could do this Peak Trip Profile Midday Trip Profile Combined into one vehicle
Alternative Services Program
Why are we talking about Alternative Services? RideshareOnline.com
What are Alternative Services? Existing Alternative Services VanShare VanPool Rideshare Matching DART and CAT SchoolPool Community Shuttle Metro route with a Flexible Service Area, provided through community partnerships. Community Van Metro vans for local group trips scheduled by a Community Transportation Coordinator to meet local needs. Community Transportation Hub Online or physical onestop-shop for transportation information and resources. Real-Time Rideshare Promoting the use of mobile apps to enable private carpool ridematching in real-time. TripPool Real-time ridesharing between home neighborhood and a transit center. Uses Metro Vans and ORCA fares. Alternative Services in Development Bike Library Microtransit TNC partnerships More to come! RideshareOnline.com
Example: Vashon Island PLANNING STAGE Real-Time Rideshare provides informal carpooling that s coordinated using a mobile app called icarpool Community Van provides prearranged group trips to meet locally-identified transportation needs using volunteer drivers Community Transportation Hub is an online or physical onestop-shop for transportation information and resources Open Door Access is a concept we are exploring to assess the feasbility of using Metro Access vans to serve anyone looking for a ride on a space-available basis Participation from Community Stakeholder Working Group help formulate service options RideshareOnline.com
Key Learnings Fixed route transit can t do it all Community buy-in is critical Need based solutions Continued engagement Thoughtful, goal-oriented embracing of new tech What s Next? Exploring using TNCs to provide First/Last Mile connections to transit On-demand, dynamically-routed transit vehicles Expanding real-time rideshare to include new vendors RideshareOnline.com
Thank you Christina O Clare Manager of Strategy and Performance King County Metro Joe Iacobucci Director of Transit & Shared Mobility Practice Leader Sam Schwartz Consulting City of Seattle