Our work on simulation-based evaluation of Mobility as a Service as a “2-sided market” is now published in TR Part B. The goal in this work is to develop a tool that can compare “apples to oranges” where the MaaS operator’s decisions and policies are also dependent on user interaction–whether at “within day” level or at “day-to-day” level of dependency. For example, this would allow a city agency to compare the welfare effects of a TNC with a particular surge pricing policy (within day dependency) with another scenario where an EV car sharing company may alter fleet size, composition, pricing policies over time (day-to-day).

Dr. Djavadian was supported by the Canada Research Chairs program and an NSERC Discovery Grant. Prof. Chow was partly supported by the C2SMART University Transportation Center. An early version of this work was presented at IATBR 2015 in Windsor, UK.