Mobility Lines Podcast

This episode is a conversation with Eliot McFadden. Elliott is a shared-use mobility industry leader with over a decade of experience bringing innovative solutions to the market in the transportation space. As the Greater Minnesota Shared Mobility Program Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, he helps communities and transit agencies throughout Minnesota plan and pilot new services using shared used mobility options, including car share, ride share, bike share, scooters, and micro-transit.

The topic today is the Southern Minnesota Mobility-as-a-Service project, funded by a Federal Transit Administration Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) Grant.

This is the last of three segments where NCMM interviews Jana Sochor, about a discussion paper for the International Transport Forum entitled, “Piecing together the puzzle; mobility as a service from the user and service design perspectives.” Jana is a Senior Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the time of writing the discussion paper, was also a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. In this third and final segment of the interview, we talk about the user's experience of MaaS and frameworks for understanding how users can come to embrace new approaches to mobiity.

This is the second of three segments I interview Jana Sochor about a discussion paper for the International Transport Forum entitled, “Piecing together the puzzle; mobility as a service from the user and service design perspectives”. Jana is a Senior Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the time of writing the discussion paper, was also a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. In this second segment of the interview, we focus on frameworks to design and evaluate implementations of mobility as a service.