The project investigates which regulatory framework conditions for the business models, operating concepts and data architectures are necessary to minimize the negative, traffic and socio-ecological effects of mobility platforms, and which further regulatory control requirements result from the new data generated and provided on mobility platforms.

Increasingly, platform-based and data-driven mobility concepts are spreading, which bundle private, shared and public mobility offers on digital platforms, interconnect them intermodally and market them, especially according to the Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) principle. However, the transport and socio-ecological effects of this spreading platform economy in the transport sector are controversial and depend on the organizational and business models of these platform-based mobility concepts and the regulatory framework conditions on which it is based. The key levers for the desired behavioral changes as well as for the improvement of social participation are the data exchange between the actors, the organizational models of the providers, and the regulatory framework of the industry.

The central question is which problems currently existing in the transport sector hinder or impede beneficial developments and how these can be remedied in order to optimize the substantially existing socio-ecological potential of digital mobility platforms. This specifically asks how mobility behavior can be changed. In addition to open data and open source approaches on digital mobility platforms, other institutional economic and legal questions on data access, sovereignty and protection come into play. The questions are intended to provide answers that can be used to significantly influence the platform economy in transport to promote socio-ecologically sustainable mobility.

Qualitative and quantitative research methods will be used to analyze the status quo of the supply landscape and user behavior in order to forecast the socio-ecological consequences. Analyses of the data architectures as well as the regulatory framework will reveal optimization potentials, which will finally be formulated into recommendations for action. In addition to online research, M-Five’s own INACD database will be used in particular to analyze the current market situation. The ASTRA-M model will be used for the impact assessment. The modeling will be based on empirical research results. For this purpose, the market research institute IPSOS will conduct a large-scale survey on user behavior. The survey results will be supplemented by the evaluation of mobility data from sources such as the Mobilithek. A comprehensive stakeholder process consisting of interviews and expert workshops will be used to examine the conditions, problems and improvement options of the IT infrastructures.

 Publications

Oehme R., Scherf C., Emmerich J., Emmerich C., Streif M., Schade W. (2024): Digitale Mobilitätsplattformen – Zwischenbericht zu Arbeitspaket 1: Analyse und Bestandsaufnahme zu plattformbasierten Mobilitätskonzepten und -angeboten. Zwischenbericht im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes (BMDV), Dessau-Roßlau. Published in 2024, available in German language from: Digitale Mobilitätsplattformen – Zwischenbericht zu Arbeitspaket 1.

Further Information

Contact

Dr. Christian Scherf, christian.scherf[at]m-five.de