Demand-Responsive Transport for soft mobility

The use of zero-emission means of transport is booming, and car use is becoming more reasoned, particularly with carpooling and carsharing. Demand-Responsive Transport is positioned in this general objective of transforming urban mobility into sustainable mobility.

What is soft mobility?

Soft mobility refers to environmentally friendly modes of transportation. If this type of locomotion is not always possible, other ways of clean travel are emerging.

General definition of soft mobility

In the broadest sense of the term, soft mobility refers to all non-motorised means of transportation. This includes cycling and its derivatives, walking, tramway, skateboarding, scooter, or any type of public or private transport producing no CO2 emissions.

Since 2010, the term "soft mobility" has been replaced by what is called " active mobility ", which includes all trips that are made with the sole energy of the human being's physical effort. Theseecomobility solutions aim to improve the quality of urban life by offering a means of transport that is environmentally friendly and good for your health.

Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) and sustainable travel

Taking into accountsustainable development and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, Demand-Responsive Transport fits perfectly into the ecological mobility plan. The DRT is presented as an alternative to soft mobility, especially in peri-urban areas, where clean transport is difficult to run.

This sustainable travel solution is thus complementary to soft mobility, and actively acts on the environmental impact of public transport, while reducing territorial inequalities in terms of transport infrastructure.

Demand-Responsive Transport for soft mobility

Demand-Responsive Transport is a sustainable mobility solution that is beneficial for the environment and for users.

Demand-Responsive Transport : an ecological solution

If we start from the idea that soft mobility aims to reduce CO2 emissions and act on the environment and air quality, Demand-Responsive Transport is therefore working in favor of soft mobility. Although this mode of travel is not yet zero emission, DRT, by optimising passengers' travels, contributes greatly to limiting pollution, and is an ecological solution.

The development of Demand-Responsive Transport is a response to the political will to offer alternatives to private cars in cities, and to reduce superfluous kilometres, and is thus in the same direction as soft mobility.

A travel system that respects public space

The quality of urban areas, and of territories in general, depends on a respect for public space. Everyone must be aware that the city must remain accessible to all. The new modes of transport act in this sense, and open the doors to mobility for all.

The time when all travels were made solely by car is tending to disappear, to make way for new forms of mobility and shared transportation. While this solution was already well established in urban areas, it is gradually gaining ground in peri-urban areas, which are often poorly served by public transport.

DRT allows to make the city accessible to all, and particularly to People with Reduced Mobility (PRM) and vulnerable people, while acting on the quality of the territory: little installation or work, use of already existing networks, de-cluttering of the road, optimisation of public spaces...

Public transportation and optimal user experience

The users are at the heart of DRT's concerns, since its objective is to revitalise peri-urban areas by offering a service adapted to the users' pace. Passengers can thus benefit from quality public transport comparable to private transport in the city centre. They are free to choose their mode of transportation, their schedule and their frequency of use, so that booking a DRT is as simple as booking a chauffeur-driven car in the heart of the city.

With an almost "tailored" service for everyone, Demand-Responsive Transport meets the specific needs of each user for an optimal user experience.

Padam mobility: committed to soft mobility

Padam Mobility is a start-up committed toecomobility, in perfect harmony with the principle of soft mobility. For this reason, the company contributes to many advances in sustainable mobility.

Reducing the use of private cars

DRT offers an alternative transport solution that compensates the limitations of conventional public transport. This new public transport is very much in demand in rural or peri-urban areas, at night, or during off-peak hours. This alternative mode of travel helps to limit the use of personal vehicles, and thus reduce the ecological impact of car rides.  

Optimisation of the existing transportation services

Padam Mobility has been able to offer an alternative mobility solution that enhances the usefulness of existing transport infrastructures, without requiring new works or facilities. Demand-Responsive Transport has been implemented in an intelligent and dynamic way, limiting the number of empty vehicles rides and creating better calculated itineraries, for a perfect optimisation of the existing transport networks.

The development of mobility solutions that encourage eco-actions

In the same vein as soft mobility, Padam Mobility Demand-Responsive Transport encourages passengers to choose an environmentally friendly mode of travel. But it does not stop there, and also gives the possibility to choose the most judicious itineraries to reduce energy consumption, and thus pollution.

Demand-Responsive Transport invites itself into all situations where zero emission transport is impossible, and thus complements soft mobility. Padam Mobility actively encourages users to travel differently, by offering intelligent, optimised, inexpensive and sustainable mobility services.

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