MaaS for sustainable urban development

Sustainable urban development has expanded to several dimensions, such as society, economy, transportation, culture, etc. As the foundation of urban infrastructure, improving the sustainability of the transportation system can meet the travel requirements of residents in the current urban development and ensure the smoothness of transportation under the premise of energy saving. With the emergence of new technologies and models such as Internet of things, unmanned driving, and shared travel services, urban transportation ecology and passenger transportation concepts are changing accordingly. Regarding travel as a service consumption, mobility as a service (MaaS) pays more attention to shaping the overall travel system of the entire travel chain with people as the core. By analyzing the internal relationship between MaaS and the urban transportation system and spatial structure, this chapter explains the internal impact of MaaS on sustainable urban development and discusses the main points of applying MaaS to sustainable urban development from the macro-, meso-, and microscales. MaaS provides new ideas for improving the transportation service system and at the same time, puts forward more thinking about the sustainable development of cities. The possibilities brought about by new technologies such as MaaS could promote the sustainable development of cities.