MOIA accompanying research

Project Description

New on-demand mobility services and regulation (on national, regional or municipal level) affect the mobility behavior and the transportation networks. First ridepooling businesses, e.g. MOIA, are offering their service to customers in pilots. Since on-demand mobility systems become increasingly popular, research of these systems and its regulation represents an important topic of the traffic sector in recent years. The shift from individual mobility with privately owned vehicles to shared mobility bases on changes concerning individual mobility requirements and could be enhanced even further by new regulations. In order to analyze the impact of services like MOIA on the transportation system, this project includes an empirical survey and a microscopic model that represents travel demand on an individual level. This granularity allows examining influences of this new mobility service on a personal level and collective effects on an aggregated city level. Furthermore, regulations affecting certain personal groups (e.g. commuters, particular age groups), vehicle types (e.g. mode of driving) or general changes like dynamic road pricing can be included in the model.

This project combines state-of-the-art models from traffic generation to routing within the transportation network in an integrated, multi- and intermodal transportation mobiTopp model for Hamburg. Therefore, the approach of this research project by far exceeds the common macroscopic model of traffic modes.

Tasks of the Chair

The Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control is responsible for a part of the simulation framework and organizes workshops, which discuss simulation scenarios and possible future paths of ridepooling services.

Work packages

• Implementation of algorithms to represent MOIA’s fleet control
• Organization of workshops