As a team of two guys who are transportation system planners, we tried to develop a mobility on demand(MOD) transportation system. We based our workshop on the e-lecture about challenges of transportation planning by Dr Khan Rahaman’s and from Antti Ruotoistenmäki's brief lecture on Eco Mobility.
The system basically works as the normal taxi system. In this system the client can make mobile phone calls at any time anywhere to get the service. The mobiles phones used should incorporate location based services. Some may argue that since such phones are not affordable to all in the society, such system discriminate between the haves and have nots thus hardly sustainable. But we argued that even if the service is niche that mainly focuses on a certain segment of the society, it significantly helps to reduce car occupancy rate and its subsequent problems such as congestion, emission and inefficient energy use.
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