Alternative technologies: Enabling the Future of Mobility

Shomik MehndirattaPractice Manager Transport

South Asia

THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY IS NOW

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RidesharingAutonomous Electric

On demand Interconnected

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous

Electric

Ridesharing

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT

On demand

FROM MASS TRANSIT

TO MAAS TRANSIT

Interconnected

11Rio de Janeiro, Kampala, Bogotá, Nairobi.

How can governments, planning and regulatory authorities ENABLEthe opportunities for LEAPFROGGING that these technologies

present, while ensuring the spread of new technologies is EQUITABLE and SUSTAINABLE?

WHAT’S NEXT?

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Partner with Private Sector

Think Creatively about Reform

LeverageAvailable

Technology and Innovation

“Start building the foundation for an interconnected on-demand world

13Digital Matatu Project; Cape Town’s Where’s My Transport

THINK CREATIVELY ABOUT REFORM

“Formal” reform approach - creation of companies, contract services, public sector planning & regulation – is not the only way

14Digital Matatu Project; Cape Town’s Where’s My Transport

Mixed results: several successful BRTs, but challenging when targeting all of the city’s informal services

THINK CREATIVELY ABOUT REFORM

LEVERAGE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

15Digital Matatu Project; Cape Town’s Where’s My Transport

Cheap sensors & mobile technology are disrupting the world of informal buses and can support a gradual reform approach

16Digital Matatu Project; Cape Town’s Where’s My Transport

Integrating the informal: Collaborative mapping of informal buses

LEVERAGE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

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Text to Pay using

Mobile Money (M-

Pesa)

Text to Find a

Bus

Text to

Ride/Reserve

Seat

LEVERAGE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

Get ticketing right by opening protocols within an integrated environment. Think about the smart card and beyond, and use it to integrate fares and target subsidies

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Identify wreck less drivers and vehicles real time, and use machine learning to send preventive messaging to drivers at risk

LEVERAGE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

19Digital Matatu Project; Cape Town’s Where’s My Transport

PARTNER WITH PRIVATE SECTOR

Support low-risk experimentation in policy making

20Digital Matatu Project; Cape Town’s Where’s My Transport

PARTNER WITH PRIVATE SECTOR

Ensure you speak the same language – default to the use of standards that reduce knowledge asymmetry between government, citizens and

private sector

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SensorsMobiles

Open Data

PARTNER WITH PRIVATE SECTOR

Harness the full potential of available standards and technology

THANKS!

smehndiratta@worldbank.org