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oters, Boating, Grant Opportunities and so much more! Mobility management practitioners cultivate partnerships and create or join collaborative efforts that include transportation providers, planners, and other community stakeholders. Many also take the lead in facilitating teams, meetings, public engagement sessions, and other forums. A principle goal of mobility management is to design local and regional solutions customized to fit the community’s needs, resources, and vision. Practitioners of mobility management embrace both tried-and-true offerings and innovative solutions. Launch and Sustain. When a mobility management practitioner—whether an individual or an agency—and partners have designed a new service or extension of a service, there are several steps they can take to ensure its launch is successful and sustainable:
Test assumptions about what parts will work and why
Design the new service to meet customer expectations and definition of usability, is operationally feasible, and can be shown to be financially viable
Begin with a limited launch, testing a small-scale version of the service in real time, and solicit feedback from a small group of end users
Modify the service based on feedback, and when satisfied, scale up to a full service
One consistent theme in the field of transportation is that there is never enough money. It is important to find ways to meet expanding demand with little-to-no increase in funding. Mobility management is one of the answers. For too long, big transit systems have focused on assets such as vehicles. With Uber and Lyft and other on-demand transportation services as well as advances in technology, the focus is shifting to customers’ needs. The bottom line: mobility managers are a transportation resource with untapped potential. As people are living longer and outliving their driving years, we must find ways to improve mobility. The problem is that very few people know about mobility managers, while many communities are unaware of federal funding available to pay for them. That is why I am proud to have co-authored the AARP report and this blog—because we need to raise awareness. On average, people spend between one and one and a half hours on the road each day, which is why in 2020 alone, a total of 21 trillion passenger kilometers were accumulated around the world. Cars are the most commonly used means of transportation. And the volume of traffic is expected to continue to rise. According to the experts, the number of passenger kilometers could increase by at least two and a half times by the middle of this century. More cars – More challenges
More and more vehicles means more and more challenges. At present, the transportation sector accounts for about 23 percent of energy-related carbon emissions, making it the largest emitter of carbon after the energy sector. Most carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere over short distances in and around cities. In metropolitan areas, vehicle occupants experience the most frequent traffic jams, often condemned to idleness. In the USA, for example, a typical driver will have lost a total of 51 hours in 2022, according to one study. In the UK, the annual figure was 80 hours of traffic congestion, and in Germany, 40 hours. Indeed, innovative solutions are needed.
