Combined mobility
Combined Mobility: public transport in synergy with other modes like car-sharing, taxi, cycling...

What is combined mobility?

In order to limit private car use in the city and to improve the quality, offer and image of public transport, more and more networks choose to provide combined mobility packages to their customers. Indeed in mobility management, a wide range of modes and services are available and can complement the public transport offer. By building partnerships and alliances with these mobility actors, public transport operators are able to provide an ever broader mix of mobility services and thereby more convenience and door-to-door solutions for customers. In this way they promote the use of soft modes and bundle customer needs into a single card. These new mobility solutions induce a change of behaviour in the population towards private car use. By supporting innovative mobility solutions, public transport operators significantly alleviate congestion in cities as customers are able to choose between various mobility options and have thus a real alternative to the owning of a car.

This is even stated as one of the solutions in the UITP strategy for the sector ‘Public transport: the smart green solution’: to deliver lifestyle services which will become the mode of choice for citizens. UITP asks public transport operators to become true mobility providers by developing intermodal strategic partnerships and alliances with taxis, bikes and car-sharing, parking facilities, information providers and all major mobility generators.

Next events

WORKSHOP 3rd COMBINED MOBILITY PLATFORM WORKSHOP 27 February 2012, London

COMBINED MOBILITY PLATFORM 18-19 October 2012, Vienna, Austria

List of members

Introduction and mission

The Combined mobility Platform has emerged from the Car-Sharing Platform. The idea was to integrate all complementary mobility services to public transport in one single Platform in order to stimulate interaction and debate among all combined mobility actors, including public transport operators and organising authorities. The major mission of this Platform is to promote collaboration between all these stakeholders in order to develop a comprehensive mobility offer responding to all the needs of the users and facilitating door-to-door mobility.

As it was stated in the CarSharing Platform brochure some years ago already:
“As flexibility has become the key concept for the 21st century, mobility has replaced transport – individual and public. In order to provide seamless mobility to their customers, public transport companies are providing an ever broader mix of mobility services by building new alliances with actors such as CarSharing operators, taxis, etc.”

CONTACT: Caroline Cerfontaine

List of members

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