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orldwide, we are a strong sustainable issue when we A good example is the recent
facing increasingly consider transportation today. evolution of the Swiss national
important problems In the past years, digitalization has railway operator, SBB, that now
in terms of traffic added a layer to the problem and some provides a web interface and a
Wperformance that people have dreamt that it would help smartphone application that allows
we cannot solve with standard systems manage the absorption of mobility by planning a door-to-door travel
(trains, cars and busses) even if we transport systems. But it did not offer using public transportation with an
would have the money to build the the necessary degrees of freedom to integrated ticket across all transport
infrastructure to cope with mobility address the sustainability issues. For means, including cars. Real-time
expansion. Moreover, the footprint on companies providing mobility services, ticket pricing is also starting in order
environment cannot reach acceptable to motivate people to use available
targets: Switzerland cannot reach her it has helped to increase the quality capacities outside peak hours.
targets within the Kyoto protocol. Even of their services and to allow them Autonomous vehicles, as a long-term
though the CO emissions of buildings to provide a door-to-door multimodal
2 service, which was very difficult perspective, and car sharing, as a
have been satisfactorily reduced,
the ones associated with mobility because the cost of the organisation shorter-term one, gives even more
have not. So we are facing adverse for the last mile was prohibitive with momentum to this trend. Public
environmental and societal problems, classical public transportation systems transport companies in Switzerland
that are even worsen by the fact that (busses, railways, tramways). This have identified the strong potential
the necessary infrastructure to absorb lack of flexibility can be compensated of autonomous vehicles to extend
the mobility increase, even partially by a simultaneous introduction of an their services and offer a better offer.
and inefficiently, can only be paid by information system and new integrated A significant number of experiments
indebting an increasing number of services to compete with the classical involving autonomous shuttles are
future generations. We have therefore model of owning a car. being started.

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