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Fostering Change of Individual Travel Behavior with Customized Mobility Services

Authors:
Dominik Galler
Christoph Becker
Tim Hilgert
Martin Kagerbauer

Keywords: mobility patterns; activity generation; mobility assistance; new mobility services

Abstract:
The development of new mobility services has progressed rapidly in recent years. Nowadays, users can choose from a variety of different mobility services and constantly new options become available. In this paper we present the development of a new mobility assistance system that provides decision support for the user in order to facilitate selection of the best suiting means of transportation. Moreover, the impact of new mobility services on the user’s individual travel behavior as well as the impact on the transport network in general are elaborated in this paper. The mobility assistance is a distributed system that collects and aggregates data from different providers to offer relevant, context-sensitive information for the user’s current situation. Information such as timetables of public transportation, real time data on delays, availability of car sharing vehicles or traffic congestions are aggregated, refined and then presented to the user. The mobility assistance supports the user regarding route selection as well as scheduling of activities that are managed within the users’ calendar with consideration of different starting times. Moreover, the mobility assistance implements optimization strategies to improve the user’s travel needs according to his personal preferences. Activities as well as associated trips during a week can be optimally combined and rescheduled in order to achieve a lower overall travel time or low cost of mobility.

Pages: 49 to 54

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: November 13, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-517-3

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 13, 2016 to November 17, 2016