Mobility as a Service and Greener Transportation Systems in a Nordic context

The transport sector is a major source of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. This study estimates the potential of digitalized mobility solutions, such as Mobility as a Service (MaaS), to reduc ...

• The transport sector is a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other pollutants in the Nordic countries, as the sector still depends heavily on fossil fuels. Road transport generates also other emissions, such as particulate matter, that affect human health • New shared digitalized mobility services such as MaaS, car sharing, ride sharing, bike sharing are emerging, which have the potential to reduce the use of a private car. 4

Background
• Nordic Maas study aims to answer the following questions: Can transport emissions be reduced with digitalized mobility services? How much is the potential in different Nordic countries?
Can the digitalized mobility services reduce the vehicle kilometers travelled, compared to the use of a private car?
What is the emission reduction potential from passenger transport in the Nordic countries in the future, up to 2050?
What are the barriers to creating a more transportefficient society, and what should be done in the Nordic countries to overcome the barriers?
What are our policy recommendations?
Barriers to developing a transport efficient society and the wider uptake of mobility services

What is it ?
• The CitiCAP (Citizens' cap-and-trade co-created) project will make Lahti the first city in the world to plan and implement personal carbon trading scheme (PCT) for citizens.
• Carbon credits will be traded using a mobile application that can detect the different travel modes.
• A1,300 citizens as test users for the PCT app.
• Testing begins in 2019-2020 What are features?
• A smart bicycle highway that will function as a test bed for various smart solutions and other services promoting sustainable mobility • CitiCAP will collect comprehensive data on people's mobility choices. Data collected on mobility in the city will be made available to companies and other partners.
• Lahti is looking for partner cities, maybe Oslo could be one? Contact: anna.huttunen@lahti.fi What are keys questions to be solved?
• How to change the mobility attitude and behaviour of citizens to promote the shift from private car to sustainable mobility?
• How medium-size cities may develop their mobility environment: increase the use of sustainable mobility modes, enhance the multimodality and decrease the CO2 emissions, while they cannot use all mass transit options that are available for larger cities?
How does the carbon scheme work?
• Citizens will be able to monitor their emission and budget their carbon use via an open mobility data platform • Personal carbon trading means that citizens will benefit from reducing their own emissions from mobility.
− Active cyclists will get gift certificates to bicycle shops, and there will also be public transportation tickets as prizes," says Saara Vauramo, Lahti city's environmental director

Contact details
• The quantitative analysis included bike sharing, car sharing, grocery home delivery, ride sharing and combined MaaS services.
• The calculation is based on 1. the modal split of transport in different countries and; 2. the average distance travelled in commuting, leisure, shopping/errands etc.
• The penetrations of different services were estimated based on input from task 1.1 desk study.
• The overall CO 2 saving potential was estimated between 1 337 -7 161 ktCO 2 e/year in the low and high scenarios, which is 1,3 -7,2% compared to baseline.
• Highest CO 2 e saving potential in all countries was estimated for bike sharing and car sharing, combined 82% of all savings in the high scenario and 95% in the low scenario.
14 We also conducted quantitative analysis of the impacts of digitalized mobility services on VKT and GHG emissions • MaaS applies to all vehicles within the car fleet when it is implemented, whereas increased efficiency and/or electrification only applies to new vehicles. • Implementation of MaaS is thus more effective from a CO2 reduction perspective while the transport system is still dominated by fossil fuels (contrary to electrification which becomes more effective as battery prices fall and electricity content of elasticity falls). • Passenger vehicle fleet will still be dominated by fossil-fuel based vehicles well into the 2030s, and therefore it is from now until then that it is most important to activate MaaS.