Design-based research of integrated automated mobility services

With the emergence of automated driving technology, the transport and mobility sector faces a period of significant transformation with automated mobility services (AMS) entering our multimodalsystems. While many existing studies have explored conceptually simple AMS scenarios benchmarking the impact of a single one-fits-all AMS (like shared taxis), this project aims for a fundamentally ‘deeper’ type of exploration: one that considers which AMS and traditional mobility services may co-exist, tailored the diverse mixture of spatio-temporal markets and population segments and the unique local context of spatial planning, demographic, political, economic, and cultural boundary conditions. We use the innovative design-based research method supported by multimodal transport modelling to co-create such refined AMS scenarios together with local mobility stakeholders while providing them feedback through KPI dashboards. We drive the development of the approach by piloting it on some typical Flemish case studies that, at the same time, will deliver thought-provoking future scenarios that call for constructive debate and further valorization of our design method.