Chapter 3
Disruptive Mobility in Preand Post-COVID Times: App-Based
Shared Mobility in Indian Cities—The
Case of Bengaluru
Nausheen Akhtar and Paulose N. Kuriakose
Abstract Smart Sustainable city is an emerging concept of a complex long-term
vision to overcome the problems arising in the cities with the help of new technologies. Some of such problems in the transport sector include congestion, carbon
emissions, and inadequate public transit service supply. One probable solution to
these can be through optimum utilization of disruptive mobility, which has hit this
sector like a storm. This chapter presents the scenario of App-Based Shared Mobility
(ABSM) services in the city of Bengaluru and the consequent impact it is creating on
the urban travel trends, travel behavior, and car ownership. These services generate
city-level data, which can be utilized to judge various aspects of city-wide traffic to
improve the overall mobility. Moreover, the change in consumer desire from ownership to the accessibility of goods and services has penetrated the transport sector
in the form of Transport Network Companies (TNCs), which has great potential
to impact the public transit ridership as well as private vehicle ownership which is
further explored in the chapter.
Keywords Disruptive mobility · Carbon emission · Congestion · Public
transport · Shared mobility · Smart mobility · Environment · COVID-19
3.1 Introduction
The emergence of the concept of ‘Sustainability’ can be traced back to 1645–1714
to Hans Carl von [28], the term ‘Smart City’ came into being just a few years back.
However, the development of interlinked issues in the past few decades led to their
N. Akhtar · P. N. Kuriakose (B)
Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
e-mail: paulosenk@spabhopal.ac.in
N. Akhtar
e-mail: nausheen.akhtar5@gmail.com
P. N. Kuriakose
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
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Disruptive Mobility in Preand Post-COVID Times: App-Based
Shared Mobility in Indian Cities—The
Case of Bengaluru
Nausheen Akhtar and Paulose N. Kuriakose
Abstract Smart Sustainable city is an emerging concept of a complex long-term
vision to overcome the problems arising in the cities with the help of new technologies. Some of such problems in the transport sector include congestion, carbon
emissions, and inadequate public transit service supply. One probable solution to
these can be through optimum utilization of disruptive mobility, which has hit this
sector like a storm. This chapter presents the scenario of App-Based Shared Mobility
(ABSM) services in the city of Bengaluru and the consequent impact it is creating on
the urban travel trends, travel behavior, and car ownership. These services generate
city-level data, which can be utilized to judge various aspects of city-wide traffic to
improve the overall mobility. Moreover, the change in consumer desire from ownership to the accessibility of goods and services has penetrated the transport sector
in the form of Transport Network Companies (TNCs), which has great potential
to impact the public transit ridership as well as private vehicle ownership which is
further explored in the chapter.
Keywords Disruptive mobility · Carbon emission · Congestion · Public
transport · Shared mobility · Smart mobility · Environment · COVID-19
3.1 Introduction
The emergence of the concept of ‘Sustainability’ can be traced back to 1645–1714
to Hans Carl von [28], the term ‘Smart City’ came into being just a few years back.
However, the development of interlinked issues in the past few decades led to their
N. Akhtar · P. N. Kuriakose (B)
Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
e-mail: paulosenk@spabhopal.ac.in
N. Akhtar
e-mail: nausheen.akhtar5@gmail.com
P. N. Kuriakose
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
C. Chakraborty et al. (eds.), The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Green Societies,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66490-9_3
57