RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP VISION DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS

Mobility as a service in smart cities
Florin NEMÞANU 1 , Joern SCHLINGENSIEPEN 2 ,
Dorin BURETEA 3 , Valentin IORDACHE 4
1,3,4
Transport Faculty, Politehnica University of Bucharest
2
University of Applied Science Ingolstadt (TH Ingolstadt)
1
florin.nemtanu@upb.ro
Abstract: The new trend in the development of urban area is focused on smart city. Following the definition
given by Gartner the concept of a Smart city covers 6 main components: smart mobility, smart people,
smart economy, smart governance, smart environment and smart living. All these components need support
systems which are able to manage, optimise and save urban resources. An important component is the smart
mobility and mobility as a service could be a key solution to solve the problem of urban mobility in a smart
manner. The definition of mobility as a service paves the way for understanding of the concept and new businesses
could be established based on this new approach. The authors propose a model for mobility as a service
and the architecture of this urban mobility system is defined to analyse the role of mobility in a smart city.
Keywords: Mobility as a service, urban mobility, smart mobility, smart city.
Introduction
The urban area has to face several challenges in terms of sustainability, consumption of
resources, economic activities and the welfare of the citizens. The pollution, erosion of the
soil, air quality, access of SMEs to open market, the open market of resources, happiness,
the level of education are only few major issues of urban areas and metropolitan area (suburban
areas are parts of the city through the citizens and services). Therefore new approaches,
concepts and technical solutions for urban area have to be developed. A well-known concept
is the concept of smart city which describes the objectives of resp. the requirement against
a city not focused on infrastructure but on current and future functions of a city and therefore
use ICT and related technologies to aggregate data from many different areas to generate
input information for optimal fulfilment of functions by so called services.
Today we see a main trend following this concept in all components of a city. A general
model of a smart city was developed in the European project (www.smart-cities.eu) where
six main components was revealed and the main reason was to develop a model to be followed
and to add more valuable functionalities to this conceptual model.