Many people are saying that new mobility service will end car ownership as we know it. A new study examines the future of cars and suggests that there will still be private car buyers but new mobility will continue to supplement public transportation, while car sharing and ridehailing services will fuel more car sales

Researchers at the Center for Automotive Research decided to weigh in with their own analysis of new mobility options and published a white paper. Here is some information from the report.

New mobility services offer transportation as an on-demand shared service, enabling users to have access to a vehicle for a short-term and on an as-needed basis. New mobility services are part of an incremental change in travel behavior, especially in urban areas, toward a multimodal system that is less car-centric.

The new mobility services include:

Ridehailing such as Uber, Lyft, Didi, Ola and Gett.

Ridesharing is a type of carpooling that uses private vehicles, arranging shared rides on short notice between travelers with a common origin and/or destination.

Carsharing are servucees that allow short time rentals of cars such as Zipcar, Car2Go and Enterprise CarShare.

Bike sharing-offers free or affordable access to bicycles for short-distance trips, mostly in urban areas.

Microtransit is a wide category that include private transit services that use small buses and develop flexible routes or schedules (or both) based on customer demand.

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) provides person’s transportation needs are met over one interface and are offered by a service provider.

Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) are fully self-driving vehicles that do not need human operation. These services have not been launched yet. Major players are Google EasyMile, Uber, Ford and GM.

Researchers found that new transportation are used more often on weekends and for social trips from 8:00 pm to 4:00 am, when public transist is not generally available. (New Mobility Services) NMS are also used for the last mile such as ride from the transit station home. The Pew Research Center found that only 15% have used ridehailing apps, 51%have hear of them but not used them while 33% have not hear of ridehailing apps.

3% of all American adults use ridehailing services on a regular (i.e. daily or weekly) basis, while 12% use these services once a month or less often.

The report shows: