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Sustainability Impacts of Mobility as a Service: A Scoping Study for Technology Assessment

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The potential for positive sustainability impacts of Mobility as a Service schemes is frequently mentioned in both scientific literature and public media, although a systematic evaluation of potential impacts is lacking thus far. In preparation of an in-depth technology assessment, we conduct a scoping study aimed at achieving a better conceptualization of what core elements constitute Mobility as a Service, what risks and opportunities are associated with this concept and how these may be further analyzed as part of a technology assessment project. Reviewing a total of 95 sources from academic literature as well as grey literature and media reports, we provide a synthesis of the core elements of Mobility as a Service schemes, develop hypotheses on the risks and opportunities involved and propose a framework for further assessment of the associated sustainability impacts.

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This work is part of the project “Sustainable Consumption of Information and Communication Technology in the Digital Society—Dialogue and Transformation through Open Innovation”. The project is funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagen Stiftung) through the “Niedersächsisches Vorab” grant programme (grant number VWZN3037).

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Wittstock, R., Teuteberg, F. (2019). Sustainability Impacts of Mobility as a Service: A Scoping Study for Technology Assessment. In: Teuteberg, F., Hempel, M., Schebek, L. (eds) Progress in Life Cycle Assessment 2018. Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12266-9_5

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