Hamburg/Munich, February 22, 2023 – In cooperation with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the consulting firm dmo - digital mobilities consultants, the ridepooling provider MOIA has been supporting the City of Munich in implementing its mobility strategy since the end of last year. The expansion of shared mobility is one of the central components of the Mobility Strategy 2035, with which the Mobility Department of the City of Munich aims to ensure safe, sustainable and efficient mobility for its citizens. A good quarter of the journeys that people currently make in Munich each day in private motorized transport are to be shifted to shared mobility solutions.
In the coming months, the consortium will develop scenarios on behalf of the state capital and in close consultation with the relevant stakeholders, such as the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) or the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (MVV), that show what a ridepooling service in Munich could look like, how it could be configured, what development potential it would have, and how it would affect the overall traffic situation in the state capital. Ridepooling provider MOIA is contributing its many years of expertise in setting up and operating large ridepooling fleets in Hamburg and Hanover to the project. In addition, MOIA's accompanying research has provided the company with comprehensive data on shared mobility in large cities, which MOIA can draw on when advising cities. The Technical University of Munich is contributing its expertise in the analysis of traffic behavior and the development and application of traffic models to the consortium. For this purpose, Prof. Dr. Rolf Moeckel's "Traffic Behavior" research group is developing an agent-based demand model for the Munich metropolitan region that simulates future ridepooling demand. The dmo - digital mobilities consultants - provides support with its experience in the conception and implementation of on-demand transport from the perspective of holistic mobility planning.
With regard to the details, the consortium of the Technical University of Munich, dmo-digital mobilities consultants and MOIA is developing various scenarios with driver-operated as well as automated vehicle fleets. The scenarios take into account various factors, such as service area layouts, fleet sizes, and possible pricing models. The aim is to show how ridepooling can interact optimally with other modes of transport and transport systems in the city and how the service can make the best possible contribution to meeting mobility demand in Munich efficiently, flexibly and sustainably in the future. In order to address individual issues, the consortium is in close exchange with the relevant stakeholders in the city. The project ends in June 2023.
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