Big Data and Mobility as a Service

Big Data and Mobility as a Service explores MaaS platforms that can be adaptable to the ever-evolving mobility environment. It looks at multi-mode urban crowd data to assess urban mobility characteristics, their shared transportation potential, and their performance conditions and constraints. The book analyzes the roles of multimodality, travel behavior, urban mobility dynamics and participation. Combined with insights on using big data to analyze market and policy decisions, this book is an essential tool for urban transportation management researchers and practitioners.

Haoran (Ronan) Zhang is Assistant Professor in the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo, a Researcher at the School of Business Society and Engineering at Mälardalen University in Sweden, and Senior Scientist at Locationmind Inc. in Japan. His research includes smart supply chain technologies, GPS data in shared transportation, urban sustainable performance, GIS technologies in renewable energy systems, and smart cities. He is author of numerous journal articles and Editorial Board Member of several international academic journals. He has Ph.D.’s in both Engineering and Sociocultural Environment and was awarded Excellent Young Researcher by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Xuan Song is currently an Excellent Young Researcher of Japan MEXT, and an Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo. He received the Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Peking University, China, in 2010. From 2010 to 2012, he worked in Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo as a post-doctoral researcher. From 2012 to 2015, he worked in Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo as a Project Assistant Professor. In 2015, he was promoted to Project Associate Professor with the Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo. In 2018, he joined in Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC) of AIST as a tenured Senior Researcher. In the past five years, he led and participated in many important projects as principal investigator or primary actor in Japan, such as DIAS/GRENE Grant of MEXT, Japan; Japan/US Big Data and Disaster Project of JST, Japan; Young Scientists Grant and Scientific Research Grant of MEXT, Japan; Research Grant of MLIT, Japan; CORE Project of Microsoft; Grant of JR EAST Company and Hitachi Company, Japan. He served as Associate Editor, Guest Editor, Program Chair, Area Chair, Program Committee Member or reviewer for many