Combining Public and Private Strategies Towards Sustainable and Responsible Mobility

Abstract

Urban capitals worldwide are experiencing huge mobility changes which engender deep modifications of the urban space. The entrance of newcomers and new mobility services are all based on the collective awareness that a sustainable economy cannot develop without smooth, ecological and sustainable mobility. Developing a sustainable city is becoming the main stake in the forthcoming massive urbanization. This transformation occurs by connecting private and public actors, as private actors can alone design neither innovative business models nor appropriate strategy without public actors. Partnerships between private and public actors are necessary, but also complex. Combining public and private offers for the new mobility is creating opportunities, but also constraints. The revolution in urban mobility aims to be intelligent and user-centered. This concept of mobility-as-a-service is based on an offer of mixed mobility is going to afford the city-dweller safer and more sustainable mobility. To study successful private/public partnerships builds the framework for a repositioning of the traditional actors and to a redefining of their role.