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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Realization of Mobility as a Service in View of Ambient Intelligence
Authors : Hideyuki Nakashima, Keiji Hirata, Junichi Ochiai
Published in: Serviceology for Smart Service System
Publisher: Springer Japan
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Abstract
The concept of a new public transportation system, Smart Access Vehicle System (SAVS), for mobility as a service (MaaS) is introduced.
SAVS project is a typical example of the practice in serviceology in the sense that new service emerges in a design-service-analysis loop. Mobility itself is not the goal – mobility is a service, or service platform, on which other services are provided. Mobility enhances activities of people and thus increases the value of other services.
We conducted the field tests of SAVS three times in Hakodate and achieved the world’s first full automatic management of real-time multiple demand-responsive transportation. The next step is to enhance its usability and utility. We hope it is possible with the help of ambient intelligence (AmI).
Since SAVS works in outdoor environment citywide, we believe many new and interesting research issues arise from AmI point of view. It will be a city version of intelligent rooms. At the same time, SAVs themselves act as probe cars to collect information about traffic situation.
In the paper, we first briefly describe SAVS and its implementation done so far. We then address the design concept of MaaS in the light of AmI. Combining information and mobility significantly increases the quality of urban life. We present the concept of citywide realization of AmI.