Urban mobility has experienced profound changes over recent years. The demand for an integrated mobility service platform that combines various modes of transportation, such as public transit, private vehicle, and bikes, as a compact service package has increased with the changing landscape of passengers’ daily commutes.
Moreover, mobility patterns are becoming complicated while connecting multiple points in an inconstant pattern. The mobility platform integrates multi-modal options for journey planning, tracking, booking car/ride, payment, and service feedback.
Also, the urban population is expected to gradually increase along with the rising demand for affordable and hassle-free sustainable transportation systems in coming years giving birth to several mobility trends.
This article will focus on some upcoming mobility trends that will be the spotlight of 2023.
Smart Mobility and its Future Needs
Smart mobility or mobility as a service is using modes of transportation instead of owning a gas-powered vehicle. The concept of smart mobility is a revolutionary way of transportation that is cleaner, safer, and more efficient, including a wide range of modes of transportation such as kick scooters, bicycles, buses, light rail trains, subways, streetcars, taxis, autonomous vehicles, and walking.
With the rising urbanization and smart city initiatives and increasing adoption of on-demand mobility services, the growth in the global mobility as a service market is expected to increase with the growing trend of smart mobility, including better in-vehicle facilities, increasing parking problems, and major emphasis on reducing CO2 emissions.
According to a report by BIS Research, the global mobility as a service market was estimated to be at $39.23 billion in 2021, which is expected to reach $379.66 billion by 2031 with a CAGR of 25.7%.
Smart mobility is built on the principles of flexibility, efficiency, clean technology, and safety, which has increased its demand for future mobility needs.
Upcoming Mobility Trends for 2023
The future of mobility is shifting toward environment-friendly, connected, autonomous, and personalized commutes, which brings in the need for several advancements.
Some of such developments expected to occur in 2023 are as follows:
Government regulation will fuel electric vehicle innovation: With public adoption of the concept idling for many years, the application of electric vehicles (EV) has been slow in the market. Due to the evolving automotive technologies, the global share of EVs is bound to increase, and it has already begun, as Tesla is outselling BMW, Audi, and Mercedes in the U.S. While the quest to produce more affordable electric vehicles continues, EV manufacturers are advancing open innovation across multiple verticals.
These advancements include experimenting with solar power, solar roofs, and home batteries to scale up the knowledge and resources and ultimately show a major societal influence on the future of mobility.
Driving will become more autonomous: The concept of autonomous driving is one of the most needed mobility trends for 2023. With the risk and doubt of accidents, autonomous driving is still in the back seat, which EV manufacturers are most concerned about. The guidelines from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) clearly define six levels of driving automation, which are to be mentioned with every model:
Level 0 (Zero Autonomy): Here, a human driver is required to manually perform all the tasks.
Level 1 (Driver Assistance): Under this level, driver assistance is required, where vehicle design may include some self-driving features, but a driver is still required for direction assistance.
Level 2 (Partial Automation): It’s partially automated, where the vehicle is combined with some automated functions, like steering and acceleration.
Level 3 (Conditional Automation): Under this, a driver is needed to be present not to monitor the environment but to be ready to take control if required.
Level 4 (High Automation): Under this level, the vehicle is capable of performing all driving functions, but there’s also an option present for the driver to take control.
Level 5 (Full Automation): It makes a vehicle fully capable of performing all sorts of driving functions under all conditions.
With technology getting more advanced day by day, it is expected that 2023 will make level 4 autonomy widely available.
Companies will look to create new recurring revenue streams: As ridesharing and autonomous public transport have grown in popularity in several countries, the opportunity to increase revenue via an ongoing subscription basis is expected to grow even more, as shared vehicles will require more maintenance.
While the pandemic has put some brakes on the meteoric growth, the industry is still alive and performing well. Currently, there are more than 10 metropolitan regions that are generating over $500 million in annual ridesharing revenue. Thus, mobility as a service sector will have a large scope of growth in 2023.
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) will make driving safer: V2X is a wireless technology facilitating data exchange between a vehicle and its surrounding environment. Vehicles with V2X technology can communicate with other vehicles, roadway infrastructure, and even with pedestrians with a wireless network.
It is a sensor-based technology that enables vehicles to detect objects' movement outside the normal field of vision while offering valuable updates on object positions and speed with real-time data sharing.
Conclusion
These are the upcoming trends and technologies that are meant to mold the automotive industry in 2023 into a feasible direction by taking care of the need for a comprehensive mobility service. The concept of mobility as a service (MaaS) emerged and promoted several developments, such as the increased adoption of carpooling, and is also expected to grow further.
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