Token Economy in the Mobility Ecosystem

Abstract

Information technology is seen as the key to provide solutions for current and future challenges in the transportation and mobility ecosystem. Of those, the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is considered as an emerging paradigm to establish a token economy ecosystem without trusted third parties. Hereby, the mobility and transportation infrastructure resources and their usage are regarded as assets, which are transformed into tradabe tokens, managed via distributed ledgers. The access to the infrastructure is restricted and guaranteed to the token owners. The design and implementation of distributed ledgers depends on the requirements of the respective use cases, leading to a DLT-based IT infrastructure consisting of many different distributed ledger implementations. We derive a generic architecture for the future mobility token economy by adapting and applying a DLT design decision process to the mobility ecosystem, including six potential use cases.