Transport’s future is integrated, but how do we get there?
In our view of integrated mobility, these partnerships would set up protocols to address potential challenges, such as funding mechanisms and data-sharing. And with the evolution of a SIMSystem likely to be different across geographies, key stakeholders will be able to capitalise on models that are adaptable, and can be customised and scaled to their own particular needs.
In the initial phase of this project, we’ve tried to capture not only the need for and vision of integrated mobility, but also principles for enablement. What are the ideal conditions and actions that can make a SIMSystem a reality? Some of these include:
• Governments serving in the role of conveners and gatekeepers to bring together public and private sector actors with potentially conflicting priorities and incentives;
• Consolidation of decision rights into a centralised mobility authority that can address the complexity of transportation regulatory systems;
• Evaluating the success of integration efforts by establishing outcomeoriented mobility measurement standards;
• Cities operating as labs for SIMSystem pilots, with successful models then deployed and scaled in other geographies; and
• Developing new governance models that can cope with the complexity of the emerging mobility marketplace.
These principles are part of what is ultimately a call to action to all entities impacted by mobility – a manifesto, if you will. And there are few entities that will not be affected, as mobility underpins nearly every facet of modern life. A wait-and-see approach will only make it harder, if not impossible, down the road to corral the one-off transport solutions that continue to spring up.
Seamless, integrated mobility — it is a daunting task. But if we start now, it is also a thrilling, once-in-a-generation opportunity to get the future of mobility right.
• The first deliverable in the forum’s SIMSystem project – Designing a Seamless Integrated Mobility System (SIMSystem): A Manifesto for Transforming Passenger and Goods Mobility — will launch at Davos 2018, where we will be sharing the concept with public and private organisations from around the world to gain support for multiple pilots as early as next year.
This article was originally published on www.weforum.org