This session aims to understand better how an innovation developed for one audience can be deployed somewhere very different using Mobility as a Service in Africa as the research vehicle. MaaS is a European concept that has been adopted outside Europe but so far not significantly in African countries where transportation is mostly unstructured, and with goods an integral part of personal mobility particularly for women or traders. African countries have diverse cultures, infrastructures, and societal values, and in some, there has been increased technology use in transport and other fields, e.g. mobile wallets, but MaaS has not ‘caught on’. This session will debate what should MaaS look like outside the European context and whether it can be an enabler for the movement of people and goods. To what extent is MaaS fluid so that if that MaaS – or another ITS Innovation– is deployed in a City, it does not further widen the inequality gap or add to the existing transport challenges in African countries particularly and other countries in general?

Organiser: 

• Ejiro Ikoko, University of Leeds

Moderator:

• Ejiro Ikoko, University of Leeds    

 
Speakers:

• Jan Coetzee, Innovative Transport Solutions (Pty) Ltd     
• Erelu-Ejide Simisola Elegba, Institute of Transport Studies     
• John Paddington, ERTICO - ITS Europe     
• Carol Schweiger, Schweiger Consulting LLC