Momentum: Mass Transit - Daniel Blank, Bureau Blank

Momentum: Mass Transit!

Transforming Transportation 2014!

!   Transforming Transportation 2014 “Future Leaders in Sustainable Transport” session honorable mention!

!   Daniel Blank!!   BUREAU BLANK!

M A S S T R A N S I T

B Y D A N I E L B L A N K 2 0 1 4 !( I M A G E C R E D I T S T O T H E I R O W N E R S )

Urbanization and sprawl have created a disconnect between the places where many people live and where they access life’s necessities

–especially jobs, education and healthcare.

live work

Sam Howzit via FlickrSean Marshall via Flickr

How can we get everyone where they need to go?

(this is about equal access first, transportation mode second)

More cars is not the answer.

But people are creative. Different ways of commuting are possible.

Image credit: Roberto Neumiller/SOS SAHEL

In developing markets like the Philippines, flexible networks of shuttles coexist with fixed-route municipal transit

and take people where they need to go affordably and reliably.

Image credit: Stephanie Azarias & Alexander Olpindo via Wikipedia

What about efficiency and scale?

By adding standardization, technology and data to the equation containerized shipping and logistical software have revolutionized the way we transport goods from point A to point B. !

If goods can be moved better, faster and cheaper…

Image credit: Simon Burchett

And we’ve figured out how to move data…

Image credit: http://internet-map.net/

Can the way we move in groups evolve as well?

Steve Dunleavy via Flickr

M O M E N T U M I S

++PA S S E N G E R S S O F T W A R E & H A R D W A R E S H U T T L E S

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M O M E N T U M I S

PA S S E N G E R S

• C o n n e c t t o M o m e n t u m v i a s m a r t p h o n e o r S M S

• R e q u e s t p i c k u p o r d e s t i n a t i o n i n f o r m a t i o n

• C o n f i r m p i c k u p t i m e a n d l o c a t i o n

• U s e s m a r t m a r k e r s t o i d e n t i f y l o c a t i o n a n d t r a v e l t i m e a n d a u g m e n t d o o r- t o - d o o r s e r v i c e

• P a y f a r e s v i a t h e a p p o r S M S

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M O M E N T U M I S

S M A R T M A R K E R S

• K n o w t h e i r o w n g e o l o c a t i o n

• H e l p s o f t w a r e t o c a l c u l a t e t r a v e l t i m e s

• C a n n o t i f y p a s s e n g e r s o f a p p r o a c h i n g / d e p a r t i n g s h u t t l e s

• I n c r e a s e e f f i c i e n c y o v e r d o o r- t o - d o o r s e r v i c e i n h i g h d e n s i t y r e s i d e n t i a l o r d e s t i n a t i o n a r e a s

• C a n b e p l a c e d a n y w h e r e i n a c o m m u n i t y

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D R I V E R S

• U s e t h e i r o w n s h u t t l e o r r e n t o n e f r o m M o m e n t u m

• L i c e n s e s o f t w a r e a n d h a r d w a r e p l a t f o r m

• U s e a r e a l t i m e m a p t o f i n d p a s s e n g e r s

• G e t p a i d e l e c t r o n i c a l l y e a c h w e e k

• O w n t h e i r o w n b u s i n e s s

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D A TA & A N A LY T I C S

• C o m m u t i n g p a t t e r n s h e l p i d e n t i f y u n d e r s e r v e d c o m m u n i t i e s

• C a n h e l p m u n i c i p a l i t i e s p l a n f o r f u t u r e t r a n s i t e x p a n s i o n

• D e s t i n a t i o n d a t a e s t a b l i s h e s t r i p p u r p o s e

• A n o n o m i z e d t r a c k i n g o f :

• t r i p t i m e

• p a s s e n g e r c o u n t

• r o u t e t a k e n

• w a i t t i m e a n d t r a f f i c

• d e v i c e u s e d t o c o n n e c t

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C I T Y

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D R I V E R

• F l e x i b l e d o o r- t o - d o o r s e r v i c e , w h e r e y o u n e e d i t w h e n y o u n e e d i t

• A f f o r d a b l e f o r d a i l y c o m m u t i n g

• R e l i a b l e a n d c o n s i s t e n t

W H Y D O T H E Y C A R E ?

• E q u i t a b l e m o d e o f t r a n s p o r t a t i o n a c c e s s i b l e t o w i d e r a u d i e n c e

• L o w e r i n f r a s t r u c t u r e i n v e s t m e n t , r u n s o n e x i s t i n g r o a d s

• S c a l e s w i t h d e m a n d , a u g m e n t s e x i s t i n g c a p a c i t y o f l e g a c y s y s t e m s

• P r i v a t e b u s i n e s s e n t e r p r i s e o p p o r t u n i t y

• P l u g s i n t o e x i s t i n g p r i v a t e t r a n s i t n e t w o r k s ( e . g . d o l l a r v a n s )

• F l e x i b l e p l a t f o r m p r o v i d e s a s m u c h o r l i t t l e s u p p o r t a s n e e d e d

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M O M E N T U M C O N C E P T P R E S E N TA T I O N • D A N I E L B L A N K • F E B 2 0 1 4

“If we’re going to build on the greatest transportation network the world has ever known, we’re going to have to all do this together– and figure out how all these pieces interrelate in their 21st-century incarnation.”

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– U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx !

Want to help invent? Momentum is a project of Daniel Blank Contact: dan@momentumtransit.com