1. Infrastructure funding challenges in the sharing economy
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Infrastructure funding challenges in the sharing economy
Presenter: Matthias Finger Research Team: Nadia Bert, Kathryn Bouchard, Matthias Finger, David Kupfer, Juan Montero, Marcin Wolek
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2. What does digitalization do?
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What does digitalization do?
Development of new services and business models
Value-added moves from the physical to the digital layer
Client
Duplication (“mirroring”) of the physical value chain (digital value “chain”)
Client receives more information and power
Client
Competition in the physical value chain intensifies
Value chain (physical, linear)
Client
* Source: Authors’ own elaboration
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3. Infrastructure funding challenges in the sharing economy
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1. Introduction
Infrastructure funding challenges in the sharing economy
Sharing economy in transport – what are we talking about?
Sharing economy as a new paradigm
The role of online platforms in multisided markets
Shared mobility forms: carpooling, carsharing, bikesharing, ridesharing, ridesplitting
Revenue of shared mobility in Europe: EUR 5.1 billion (EUR 1.6 billion for platforms) in 2015*
* Source: PwC (2016), Assessing the size and presence of the collaborative economy in Europe, document prepared for the European Commission (DG GROW), April 2016.
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2. Shared Mobility in long distance trips: substitution of traditional transport modes
Is car pooling substituting traditional public transportation?
Source: UIC, Status of the competition for long distance trips at the aggregated level. Carpooling, bus, train, private car and air competition on long distance trips. Study by Systra. Pre-publication, September 2016, p. 219.
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2. Shared Mobility in long distance trips: substitution of traditional transport modes
Carpooling has reached a significant volume
In France in 2015, 6 billion passengers/km, including drivers (12% of railway domestic long distance passengers/km)*
Carpooling is reducing numbers of passengers and revenue in traditional public transportation (railway and coaches)
In France in 2015, a 6% reduction in passengers/km*
Recommendations:
EU statistics are necessary
Level playing field
Review of Public Service Obligations (PSO) policies:
passenger/revenue reduction will increase the cost of existing services
cross-subsidies as a funding mechanism, more difficult
carpooling is also an opportunity in the provision and funding of PSO
* Source: CGDD, Covoiturage lingue distance: état des lieux et potentiel de croissance, Etudes & Documents du Commissariat Général au Développement Durable, nº 146, May 2016.
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6. Alternative if a transport mode was not available (USA)
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3. Shared Mobility in urban transportation: complementarity with traditional public transport
Alternative if a transport mode was not available (USA)
Shared mobility is still at its infancy in urban transportation:
Bikesharing represents only 3% of trips in Paris
Carsharing represents only 0.1% of trips in Berlin
Ridesharing represents only 1%/2% of trips in San Francisco.
Different substitutability patterns emerge, but overall:
Complement for mass-transit services
Substitute for the private vehicles
Source: SUMC (2016), Shared Mobility and the Transformation of Public Transit, Research Analysis for the American Public Transportation Association. TCRP Report 188
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3. Shared Mobility in urban transportation: complementarity with traditional public transport
“Shared mobility might be a key complement to mass-transit. Even if the volumes are not very large, shared mobility might reinforce the weak points of mass-transit (low-density areas, night services, specific needs) in a way that makes the combined provision of both […] a fully viable alternative to private car ownership.”
Transport infrastructure will benefit from the increase of passengers and revenue in mass-transit systems
Recommendations:
Promote each single shared mobility service, ensuring legal certainty
Promote the complementarity of shared mobility to mass-transit services (first mile/last mile, etc.)
Promote Mobility as a Service to combine mass-transit and shared mobility services as a valid alternative to the private vehicle
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8. 4. Value appropriation by platforms
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4. Value appropriation by platforms
Online platforms manage the new data layer
Value appropriation in the form of/through commissions (average 20%). Potential problem if traditional collective transport services are mediated (Mobility as a Service)
Freeriding is a potential problem, as in telecoms and electricity
Recommendation:
“Closely follow the evolution of platforms’ activities in order to identify […] arrangements that challenge the financing of infrastructure”
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9. Thank you for your attention!
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Thank you for your attention!
Contacts for further questions:
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