MixMyRide – Mixing public transport, carpooling and active mobility to reduce solo car use

• Forschungsstelle: BFE
• Projektnummer: SI/502321

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

MixMyRide develops a multimodal Mobility as a Service platform, which has public transport as its backbone, and exploits carpooling and active mobility as opportunities to extend public transport networks. The platform uses public transport data, real-time dynamic carpooling and bike-sharing data and artificial intelligence algorithms to match the mobility demand and offer. It allows planning and booking multimodal trips that combine walking and public transport routes with cycling routes and rides offered by other citizens (carpooling), thus creating an innovative "Public-Private-People Partnership" for the co-production of a new mobility service, which offers multimodal, time-effective, and flexible on-demand mobility options. The platform is tested in three one-year long, large-scale real-world trials, run in the regions of Lugano, Winterthur, and Geneva. Its behavioural effects on mobility, energy demand, carbon emissions and more generally on living and working social practices are assessed through a mixed method approach.