David Zipper's keynote presentation during the Urbanism Next 2021 Virtual Forum was highlighted in Skip Descant's article about public transit during COVID-19.
Trends like mobility as a service (MaaS), a shorthand for the use of technology to achieve fully integrated transportation systems, have been slow to take off. David Zipper, a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government, speaking at the Urbanism Next conference last week, said transit and transportation in the U.S. still has much room for evolving.
“As interesting as I think MaaS is … none of them that I can see have really driven mode-shift,” said Zipper. “So, until that happens, I’m going to be a sort of like supportive skeptic of MaaS, because I want to see it work. Because I support the goals of reducing the role of automobiles in cities, but let’s not kid ourselves, we don’t have evidence that that’s happened yet, anywhere.”
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