The transportation industry is experiencing profound transformation, from changes in travel patterns and behaviors due to the global pandemic, to technology advances in vehicle communication and automation, to teleworking and increased e-commerce.
To better understand how these complex and interrelated factors may impact future mobility, transportation clients are using Mobilitics to help inform service and capital planning decisions and quantify the potential impacts of travel disruption.
Mobilitics for Pandemic Response is an updated version of our ground-breaking transportation scenario-planning tool originally launched in 2018. It helps transit agencies, departments of transportation, and other clients across the U.S. assess how pandemic infection rates, stay-at-home orders, availability and deployment of a vaccine, economic recovery and re-opening and other factors are expected to impact transportation patterns, to help clients better recover and strengthen resiliency.
Mobilitics in action:
Seamless Bay Area: We teamed with Seamless Bay Area to develop a scenario-planning tool and approach to evaluating and envisioning an integrated, people-focused, and equitable plan for a transit system recovery for the San Francisco Bay Area. Mobilitics is being used to understand how different levels of transit network optimization and funding may impact future transportation patterns and accessibility. Additionally, the team is helping communicate the vision to policymakers and the public to build support for near-, medium-, and long-term funding and policy reforms.
New Jersey Transit: In order to provide actionable and results-oriented analysis and a better understanding of the pandemic’s impacts on New Jersey Transit, we are using Mobilitics for scenario planning to forecast possible ridership and revenue under different recovery and return-to-service scenarios. This analysis includes regular updates to incorporate actual ridership and the pace of recovery to understand how that changes the trajectory of ridership on bus, rail, and light rail.
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority: With the goal of exploring impacts to operating conditions and investment considerations for future transportation projects, we are providing services to the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to evaluate the effects of the pandemic on travel behavior and return to service. The work involves developing four scenarios and performance analysis to help inform policy decisions and regional recovery efforts.
To learn more about Mobilitics, visit our free web-based version that provides sample analytical calculations for 50 large metropolitan regions around the U.S. and read our brochure.