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The 2021 ITE Developing Trends Report represents collective input from ITE Councils and Standing Committees on emerging transportation challenges and solutions. The report covers transportation planning, engineering, management, and operation advancements and will benefit the industry's leaders and professionals in the public and private sectors. The Developing Trends Report Task Force reached out to all ITE Councils and Standing Committees to identify trends relevant to their scope and expertise.

President's Message: Who Will Survive in Mobility?

Two ITE members involved in the mobility as a service/mobility on demand (MaaS/MOD) sector, Ryan J. Westrom and Arjan Van Andel, share their thoughts on opportunities presented by MaaS/MOD to better serve users and shape the future of transportation.

The advancement of emerging technologies as transportation network companies (TNCs), microtransit, and electric scooters/micromobility--coupled with the upcoming autonomous vehicle revolution--will have a profound impact on how people travel through cities. These disruptions can be an asset to regional mobility when cities are proactive and create management structures accompanied by mobility as a service (MaaS) platforms.

Imagine that you are transported back in time to March 2018--a mere two years ago. You are walking down busy Market Street in San Francisco, CA, USA on your way to work or to go shopping. Suddenly, you are surprised to see three adults whiz by on colorful, electric two-wheeled scooters. You might also be frustrated that some riders seem to leave the scooters in the most inconvenient places, like right in the middle of the sidewalk you're walking down. You soon find you're not the only one to notice the sudden appearance of these e-scooters--in the following weeks and months, you see headlines trumpet: "Scooters descend on San Francisco sidewalks" and similar.

Outdated dial-a-ride services are notoriously unpredictable for riders and transportation agencies alike, but some cities are turning to new technologies to find a fix.

Mobility as a Service - Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

Mobility as a Service - Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

Mobility as A Service - TNC and Automated Vehicle Insights

Mobility as A Service - TNC and Automated Vehicle Insights

Mobility as A Service - TNC and Automated Vehicle Insights

Mobility as a Service: A New ITE Initiative

ITE Mobility as a Service Steering Committee Members

Shared Mobility: Current Practices and Guiding Principles

Travel Behavior: Shared Mobility and Transportation Equity

Over the last 10 years, converging market forces, social trends, and advancements in technology have started to reshape the way we understand, experience, plan for, and provide transportation. One manifestation of the changing transportation landscape is Mobility as a Service (MaaS). It represents a model in which mobility solutions are not owned by consumers, but instead used as on-demand services provided by a business and accessible based on individuals' situational travel needs.

The questions of where and how people should be permitted to ride various modes has been around for more than 100 years. The safety bicycle, with equal size wheels and a chain drive allowing force of movement from both wheels, was invented in 1887 as an everyday bicycle compared to the high wheeler. The safety bicycle started to appear on city streets in masses in the early 1890s. As the safety bicycle became cost effective and easy to ride, bicycling became a mode of transportation rather than just for recreation. Various cities noted the sheer number of bicyclists that flooded city streets so quickly, and bicyclists had to vie for space among existing modes, from wagons to electric streetcars.1