Future Mobility IL
Solving Israel's Traffic congestion – January 2019
Israel is said to suffer the worst traffic congestion among the OECD countries. Traffic rates, costs and pollution have been steadily increasing in cities throughout the world due to poor public transportation infrastructure, extensive private vehicle usage and lack of viable alternatives. As a public policy organization, Future Mobility IL understands that collaboration of all existing systems is necessary for success. 8 mobility elements have been researched in various cities: Mass Transit, Parking, Tax Incentives, Shared Transportation. Shared Micro-mobility, Futures of Cars, MaaS Support and Walkability.
Future Mobility IL proposes a comprehensive and holistic plan that includes integration of these 8 different aspects in order to solve Israel’s traffic congestion and promote Israel as a leader in the smart transport revolution. It is made up of highly feasible steps and actions that are economically attractive and can be executed within a time frame of the next few years. The plan devised by Future Mobility Il is the most extensive and complete plan to date for this objective. The plan has been constructed after a detailed analysis of its applicability and viability.
The plan includes a swift policy change in various fields:
1) Bus System - the cities have to improve them as they are a critical component of transportation. Traffic lights or by bus lanes as well as technology innovations are basic ways to make quick improvements.
2) Parking pricing - Parking policy used to limit parking spaces as well as parking pricing are the keys for reducing incentives for private car use, the policy implemented should be parking maximum.
3) Tax Incentives - Tax Incentives are the basis of every MaaS ecosystem. Technology innovations assist in collecting road pricing fares remotely and refrain from investing in expensive infrastructures.
4) Shared transportation - Shared transportation as an alternative to the use of private vehicles with single drivers: carpool incentives as well as semi-private micro-transit initiatives to supplement public transport.
5) Micro-mobility - is a great ‘first, last mile’ solution.
6) Electric and autonomous vehicles - Electric and autonomous vehicles are important foundations of the mobility revolution by lowering emissions, minimizing car accidents and providing cost savings for MaaS suppliers.
7) Promoting Maas - Promoting Maas- The key is to demand that mobility providers share their data, upgrade the ticketing systems so as to be fully digital and allow the selling and payment for public transport tickets via third parties.
8) Walkability - Walkability is most natural method and the basis of every trip plan, whether it’s by public transport, private car or micro-mobility. Therefore, streets should be adjusted for pedestrians, including shades corridors, trees and wide sidewalks that create walkable environment
In order to promote Israel as an essential player in the global transportation transformation Future Mobility has published a magazine which provides a unique insight to the applications and companies which are working and inventing new technologies to help reduce the congestion in Israel. Gridlock costs the economy of Israel NIS 50 billion, and Future Mobility has a comprehensive plan to overcome the hurdles. According to Future Mobility Chairman, Ori Yogev, we have no time to waste.
It should be noted that this plan is in according to the year 2019. There is a more updated plan on the Hebrew website for the year 2020.
