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Thanks to the cooperation between the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) and ioki, up to 1.8 million people in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region will benefit from on-demand solutions to strengthen public transport. Knut, Lahnstar or Emil - with 150 emission-free vehicles, the project funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI, now BMD) is one of the largest on-demand projects in Europe. The software makes the decisive difference by bundling passenger wishes and determining the optimal route based on the bookings. This saves valuable time and closes the gap between conventional public transport services and individual transport. In some service areas, a dedicated routing system for on-demand shuttles is also used to guide passengers from the train to the on-demand shuttle with signs and signage.

Together with Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH (VHH) and Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV), ioki has connected the peripheral areas such as Osdorf, Lurup and Billbrook, which have a high residential density but do not yet have strong public transport coverage. The ioki Hamburg service is integrated into the local tariff, thus offering an alternative to private transport that is suitable for everyday use and shows that mobility solutions make an important contribution to inclusion. With success: 72 percent of respondents are driven to or picked up from the nearest public transport stop or station, and more than half of the passengers use the service daily. The project was awarded the German Mobility Prize 2019. In December 2020, ioki Hamburg transport services were expanded to Ahrensburg and the Brunsbek/Lütjensee/Trittau area as part of the Reallabor Hamburg project (regulatory sandboxes) and in cooperation with the city of Ahrensburg and the Stormarn district.

With the Wittlich Shuttle, ioki has for the first time in Germany digitised an existing dial-a-bus and integrated it into the existing public transport tariff. In the small town on the Moselle, older people in particular - in Wittlich the number of over 65-year-olds is over 25% - but also people with limited mobility and commuters benefit from this service.

Together with DB Regio Mitte and the company Roche, ioki has launched a unique pilot project for an employee shuttle that is coordinated with existing rail transport. The results underline the advantages of on-demand mobility for the employees, the operational process and the sustainability of the company - the networked mobility concept also convinces car drivers of public transport.

On behalf of Hamburger Hochbahn, ioki's Mobility Analytics team has investigated what a networked, emission- and barrier-free public transport system could look like in 2030. The analysis shows: around 25 million kilometres are travelled by private vehicles within Hamburg every day. On-demand shuttles can save 6.5 million kilometres of this and thus a thousand tonnes of CO2.

On this basis, a concept was developed in which conventional public transport is linked with new sharing services to form an integrated public transport system (iÖPNV). About 150,000 Hamburg residents - just under 10 percent of the total population - would benefit from a shuttle-based service because they currently have no comparable public transport service on their doorstep. The districts in the north-east of Hamburg in particular, such as Wandsbek, would be significantly enhanced by mobility solutions that follow the individual needs of passengers rather than fixed timetables.

With the aim of developing public transport in the Geneva-Lausanne-Vevey region into a genuine alternative to private motorised transport, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), the Geneva public transport company tpg and its counterpart in Lausanne, tl, have jointly launched the "Arc Mobilité" initiative.

The specific challenge of the initiative is to develop an integrated mobility concept with a multimodal approach that enables the shift of up to 10,000 car trips per day to public transport.

To this end, ioki, together with Accenture and Fjord, was responsible for a comprehensive study in order to be able to develop the new service in line with the actual needs of the users. As part of this study, ioki conducted a data-based mobility analysis. A total of six million journeys were analysed, which were finally sketched out as journey chains according to occasion and time of day for a detailed picture.

The Mobility Analytics experts at ioki have investigated the public transport coverage in Germany and the existing mobility offers in 2021. Their focus: the potential of pooling, on-demand and sharing offers with a special emphasis on rural areas. Almost 94 percent of the population can easily reach a public transport stop on foot, that is almost 52 million inhabitants in urban regions and 27 million in rural areas. Access is therefore high overall. However, if the quality of the service is taken into account, there is a clear difference between urban and rural areas: 90 per cent of the population in cities have an hourly service in each direction, but only 63 per cent in rural areas. There is also an urban-rural divide in new forms of mobility: More than 90 percent of on-demand services, rental bikes and e-scooters are located in the centres of large cities. On-demand services that are fully integrated into the existing public transport system could replace the private car for the journey to the station and thus offer around 25 million people an additional attractive option to the private car. 

In the Lower Bavarian spa town of Bad Birnbach, DB, headed by ioki, has been operating Germany's first autonomous bus line on public roads since October 2017. Drivers and pedestrians encounter an electric bus that is not only quiet and environmentally friendly. It also has no driver and no steering wheel or accelerator pedal. Only an attendant is on board who can intervene if necessary. The vehicle drives through the town and, since October 2019, also to the railway station.