Next Mobility

2019: Announcement

In March, 2019 Mitsubishi announced service for the organization of bus transportations. For this purpose the Japanese corporation created the enterprise, joint with Nishi-Nippon (the logistic company), under the name Next Mobility.

Many operators of public city passenger transport in Japan have problems with profitability and enough drivers. The companies try to develop the effective and steadily working services. In the developed and developing areas there are not enough parkings, on roads jams are often formed, and there is not enough public transport.

Mitsubishi was provided by Uber for buses. Passengers select a route

For the solution of these problems Next Mobility in April, 2019 will begin to offer service which, using artificial intelligence, will have to induce citizens to refuse privately owned vehicles and to help to build effective transport networks.

The passengers connected to service will send through mobile application requests for where they are and where are going to go. In real time a system will trace incoming orders, and  the algorithm will be able to rebuild a route of each bus to capture as much as possible clients  on the way.

The more often people will go by  buses, the more effectively the algorithm will be able to build routes for them. Users will be able to pay trips by means of bank cards in the application.

A dispatching system was developed by the Canadian company Spare Labs. She uses deep learning for collecting of "operational data" on destination points and traffic conditions that allows buses to work more more effectively over time.

This some kind of Uber for buses will be tested in one of districts of the city of Fukuoka in the southwest of Japan. In case of successful tests service will be implemented everywhere.

The project was supported by Nissan company which provided the Caravan minivans, expected transportation up to 10 passengers.^[1]

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