Detailed description (English): CORE MaaS provides a safe and reliable way for users to have the confidence that they are working within acceptable parameters, and that they will have the ability to access healthcare facilities, pharmacies, grocery stores, or other essential services. The immediate impacts related to the CORE MaaS project can be clearly demonstrated for societal and public health / environmental impacts. By leveraging Iomob’s existing core technology to provide an open platform for shared mobility that encourages social distancing to flatten the curve in Coronavirus infections, the CORE MaaS project will seek to enable public agencies and other key stakeholders to better inform inhabitants and enable safe mobility patterns.
CORE MaaS is directly linked to the ability for people to have open access, visibility, and confidence in their required mobility actions. This will provide options in a seamless, intuitive application that routes specific journeys to allowable destinations and ensure safe, social distancing. Technology enabled solutions such as CORE MaaS seek to better society by leveraging multimodal algorithms deeply integrated with public transport and shared mobility providers to give preference for points of interest and destinations, coupled with safe mobility options to promote public health and reduce impacts related to the Coronavirus pandemic.
1.) Social Distance Filter. It is quite common for mobility apps, including those Iomob supports, to have filtering functions for things like speed, price and eco-friendly. Here we are intending to add a new filter possiblity for users which is Social Distance. While this may seem only useful during the current pandemic, Covid-19 has forced the global transportation community to reflect even more about our role in pandemics and other similar scenarios where social distancy should be respected.
2. What Constitutes Mobility Services that should be Included as “Safer”?
For users wanting to know what the filter means or how to interpret the symbols they will discover, we have a simple info screen. We believe the nuances of this will need a lot more work and feedback from the community, from our enterprise clients, end users and medical experts too to improve the reliability of our filters. Here we are thinking of, at a minimum, incorporating into our filters those services that are deeply integrated so that a user can book and pay for the service inside the app without having to interact with a ticketing machine or exchange currency or payment with a driver. We are also expecting micro mobility operators to continue to innovate and add real-time information about the disinfecting of the vehicle (or include disinfecting solution inside the vehicle itself) and those vehicles would be given preferences by our routing engine when users select the Social Distancing filter. We would also factor in if users are required to wear a shared helmet that may have been worn by a previous user.
3. Crowdsourcing tool for rating transit occupancy
As mentioned, we will build a simple crowdsourcing tool to ask users to help us determine if a transit vehicle may be too full to accommodate social distance. Those vehicles rated red would not be shown in the search results for users who have opted for the social distance function.
4. Filtered Social Distancing Results
Based on all the above we will provide users with filtered intermodal routing options that support safer journeys within or even between cities (our algorithms accommodate both), combining different modes that are deemed “safer.”