MaaS in Tokyo Bay, land, sea, and air!

■ MaaS in Tokyo Bay, land, sea, and air!

SALON CiP Online.

“MaaS Demonstration Experiments in the Bay Area" Part 2.

Sky and land. We invited two startups that are promoting new mobility services and asked them to present their ideas for demonstration experiments using the bay area.

This is the report.

Mr. Yusuke Haga, who is developing a "flying car.”

A small 2-seater 5m x 5m machine that takes off and lands vertically with electric self-driving. Flight distance 2~30km. Roughly 50 million yen.

I want it.

It is expected to be commercialized in 2023. It will be part of the contents of the Osaka Expo.

For practical use, it is said that rules such as safety, license, takeoff, and landing field requirements are necessary.

"We expect the area around Tokyo Bay to be the implementation area."

If they can connect areas such as Takeshiba.

In fiscal 2025, it is expected that demonstration will be carried out using the coastal sandbox system.

And electric scooter sharing, President Daiki Okai of Luup.

They handle electric assist bicycles and electric kickboards.

I want it.

They advocate an infrastructure that "turns the city into the station" with overwhelming high density and IoT management.

They are thinking of a car body that can move at 20km/h for young people, and move at 6km/h with a chair for elderly people .

The area has expanded from Shibuya to the Omiya district. Next is the bay area.

Cooperation with the local community is an important point, and it is said that the government and ruling parties are also being consulted on the development.

Unexpectedly, I am an adult.

When I was a child, the magazines were popular with the future fantasies.

The former has long been realized, but the air car remains a dream. It will come true.

And as I don't want to ride a bicycle anymore, I was thinking of buying an electric scooter, so it's timely.

In the last salonship, there was a story about ships.

Developing land, sea, and air routes to connect Ariake, Daiba, Haneda, and Takeshiba.

Exciting.

Luup’s Okai mentioned IoT management. Land, sea and air traffic control, network control, in other words, information technology is the core.

The point is the digital service in the layer above that.

And it is important to expand use cases and core users.

I want this technology, service, attracting customers, and CiP to be useful.

Haka from Skydrive: "Institutionalization is impossible for a single venture company; cooperation is important."

Okai from Luup: “It is important to have agreements with local governments in order to tune up the circumstances specific to the area.”

In response to these issues, Ito and Shirai from the port area of Tokyo showed a policy to demonstrate in the coastal area.

It is really heartening to hear a positive story from the authorities.

Tokyo wants to make the most of its advantage as a capital by the sea.

There are cities where the seaside is bustling. Singapore, Barcelona, Marseille, San Francisco.

But it doesn't go all the way to the bay.

You don't have models overseas, do you?

Okai: “Tokyo and Paris are the only cities with large urban areas. However, there are cities that have closed roads due to COVID-19 and turned them into bicycle lanes, but in that respect Japan is lagging behind.”

Haga: "I'm enthusiastic about the Expo in Osaka and Mie’s remote island, but I'm even more enthusiastic about Singapore, so I'm using it as a benchmark."

How to create a mobility infrastructure. It's an important issue.

IT = advanced information society, mobility = advanced mobile society are progressing at the same time.

The crux is electricity and IT data.

Post-Coronavirus, that fusion will likely make for an unexpectedly fun society.

Let's break through with this kind of bright story and become healthy.