{"id":39072,"date":"2021-12-20T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T12:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intellias.com\/?p=39072"},"modified":"2024-06-21T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T09:08:49","slug":"multimodal-transportation-what-tech-powers-connected-journeys","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/intellias.com\/multimodal-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Multimodal Transportation: What Tech Powers Connected Journeys?"},"content":{"rendered":"
How much time do you spend figuring out the transportation system in a new city? Or more precisely, when do you throw in the towel and decide to walk, bike, or hail a taxi instead of using public transport?<\/p>\n
Urban transportation systems<\/a> in big cities appear mazy and hazy for new visitors. But oftentimes, even born-and-bred residents struggle to understand their complexity. Especially when connections between different options are hard to figure out. Subsequently, more cars crowd the streets, while already subsidized public transportation grows less profitable to operate.<\/p>\n Now the bigger question is this: What would it take to create seamless multimodal transit? An experience so good and effective that people favor public transport over private cars. We have some ideas on how to achieve this.<\/p>\n Multimodal transportation assumes using two or more transportation modes to move people or goods from door to door. A multimodal transportation system can coordinate either urban mobility \u2014 the smart movement of people using private and public modes of transport \u2014 or commercial logistics \u2014 the movement of freight and cargo using different modalities.<\/p>\n A better way: Connected, door-to-door journeys<\/b><\/p>\n Source: Visa \u2014 Transforming Urban Mobility<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Why better multimodal planning is needed<\/p>\nWhat is multimodal transportation?<\/h2>\n