SmartMoveChain: A Proposal for Unified Scalable BMaaS for Smart Cities

Transportation systems typically follow predefined routes, leading to a cumbersome experience, especially for users relying on multiple services daily. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), proposed as a solution, integrates various mobility devices and services, including bicycles, scooters, cars, taxis, bike-sharing, and more on a single digital platform, streamlining journey planning, ticketing, and personalized travel experiences. MaaS offers various transformative benefits such as a single digital platform unifying available mobility services a cost-effective, and seamless single-ticket experience for journeys. However, there are certain challenges to be addressed such as transparency, information asymmetry, and system complexity persist. To address these challenges, Blockchain technology emerges as a solution, providing decentralisation, security, and transparency. In this work, we analysed the proposals in the literature and industry, then we identified essential features and metrics for Blockchain-supported MaaS (BMaaS) systems. Lastly, we propose this conceptual design of a scalable and unifying BMaaS system, named SmartMoveChain, addressing the existing issues in the current MaaS systems for the latter simulation process.