On Mobility Hubs and how they could be fostering sustainable mobility

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"A central train station. A multimodal park and ride. A village market square with electric scooter parking. A car-sharing station next to a bus stop, next to a bike parking space in your neighbourhood. These are all mobility hubs", UITP underlines in its?just-released policy brief: “Mobility Hubs: steering the shift towards integrated sustainable mobility”

By bringing together different modes of transport and creating seamless connections between them,?mobility hubs can help generating?a more integrated and efficient transportation system.

Mobility hubs are physical locations, typically located at key transportation nodes such as train stations, bus stations or parking lots, where?various modes of transportation converge, and where people can easily switch between them.

In Europe, the?European Commission is considering requiring more than 400 urban areas (known as ‘urban nodes’) to develop ‘multimodal passenger hubs’ to improve first- and last-mile connections and to enhance long-distance connectivity.

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?? Things we enjoyed reading

• When public transport fails, Uber wins – and we lose - Rideshare services benefit when public transport is unreliable. But they can’t serve everyone – and they often exacerbate the problems of a public service in crisis. Keep reading on thespinoff.co.nz
• Efficient transit will serve the public better than free rides - Public transit systems face daunting challenges across the U.S., from pandemic ridership losses to traffic congestion, fare evasion and pressure to keep rides affordable. Keep reading on The Conversation [ The Conversation Australia + NZ ]
• How the Dutch Mastered Bike Parking at Train Stations - A decade ago, the Netherlands began building a national network of bicycle garages integrated with rail stations. Here’s how that investment has paid off.?If there’s such a thing as “bike parking porn,”... Keep reading on Bloomberg [ 彭博资讯 ]
• New EU emissions trading system: will it help? - The European Parliament has adopted a new emissions trading system for buildings and road transport (ETS II) that will go live in 2027. Keep reading on IRU website [ IRU ]
• The 37 Most Beautiful Train Stations in the World - Beautiful train stations are arguably a city’s most treasured architectural landmark. With nonstop flights going seemingly everywhere, people tend to prefer the sky over the rail. Keep reading on architecturaldigest.com

?? Time for a quote

I see mobility becoming more dynamic. In the past, it has been a ‘provide a service and the people will come’ type of approach, but this is really changing now. We see that with other industries, with services such as Netflix and Spotify, where people are subscribing to a service. Even IKEA now rents out furniture on a ‘subscription-like’ model. (...)We’ve offered subscription services for a while, but it has just been siloed in its particular mode: when you buy a season pass for a bus or a train, which people do quite a lot, in a way, that is like a subscription. The idea of joining it up across transport modes is key, and is the next step for us to take

James Bullen ,?MaaS Project Lead at Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), on Intelligent Transport (article?HERE)

?? What about a chart?

Source:?McKinsey,?The future of mobility The 'Mueller family' identifies an average German family [ 麦肯锡 ]