Johan VAN IEPEREN

Biographical note
Johan van Ieperen holds a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Delft University of Technology. He joined INIT GmbH as R&D project leader in 2015 after 10 years as UITP manager for IT solutions in public transport. Before, Johan worked for TTK in Karlsruhe, a consultancy and city renowned for its light rail scheme (tram-train).
Johan has lived in the Netherlands, Canada, South Korea, Germany and Belgium, and travels a lot. He finds a positive challenge in using public transport wherever he goes (well almost everywhere!) using the latest app on the latest gadget. It feeds his rainbow experience in the field of travel information, ticketing, social media, and beyond.

Presentation: Does the TRANSITion have a common denominator?
Mobility’s “grey area” between low- (rural, off-peak: the private car domain) and high-density areas (urban, peak hours: mass transit domain) will see considerable changes: individual, on-demand transport will strongly push back collective scheduled transport while shared and pay-per-use will push back private cars. Key to this polarization will be the available data and information from continued Digitalization which enables the services with which smart-citizens can efficiently compose their mobility needs. This presentation explores the possibility of finding a common denominator, a starting point, an initial seed, allowing for a methodological approach to predict future requirements. The assumption will be that “the TRANSITion is dictated by the Scarcity of Space”. We will share our analysis – a full TRANSITion to: digitalization, on-demand services, MaaS, electromobility, autonomous busses, and hands-free ticketing – which is driving our work in real projects to “answer the questions you may have in 5 years from now”.