Monet Technologies, a mobility service company established by Tokyo Kaiyo University, Dentsu, a major advertising company, Toyota and Softbank, will conduct a demonstration experiment of a mobile service that combines a car dispatch service and an automatically operated ship on September 2019, 9 in Tokyo. Performed in Minato Ward.
According to Dentsu, Tokyokaiyo University's automatically operated vessel "Racho I" and Monet Technologies' vehicle dispatch service will be used as a means of transportation from the departure point to the destination. Drive from the dock to your destination.The dock use management system developed by Dentsu is used for traffic management of automatically operated vessels.
This initiative is a type of "MaaS" that provides transportation as a comprehensive service from an app, and each company is working on the development of a service that combines ships, cars, airplanes, buses, and so on.Among them, Dentsu is developing a service that links water transportation to daily transportation and tourism.
A general debate will be held in Tokyo on the 5th, the day after the experiment.Professor Etsuro Shimizu of the Faculty of Marine Engineering, Tokyokaiyo University will give a lecture entitled "Possibilities of land-based multimodal by autonomous driving technology" based on the results of the demonstration experiment, and then ask and answer questions with the participants.
