Towards Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) insurance: The multimodal mobility risk transfer solution

Climate change, emissions and carbon–neutral city goals have increased the focus on developing a more diverse socio-environmentally friendly transportation ecosystem. Modern personal mobility incorporates the use of multiple modes of transport per week, or even within the same trip. The transition t...

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Main Authors: Emer Owens, Barry Sheehan, Martin Mullins, Martin Cunneen, German Castignani, Leandro Masello
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Published: Elsevier 2024-11-01
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author Emer Owens
Barry Sheehan
Martin Mullins
Martin Cunneen
German Castignani
Leandro Masello
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description Climate change, emissions and carbon–neutral city goals have increased the focus on developing a more diverse socio-environmentally friendly transportation ecosystem. Modern personal mobility incorporates the use of multiple modes of transport per week, or even within the same trip. The transition to sustainable, greener transport is exemplified by the rising popularity of micro-mobility, shared-mobility and electric vehicles. However, current mobility risk-transfer mechanisms do not support modern mobility preferences and travel behaviour. The insurance industry could incentivise sustainable modes of transport by offering innovative risk-transfer solutions. This research proposes Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) usage-based insurance, a novel transport insurance product for multi-modal mobility. PAYM insurance utilises travel behaviour data gathered from smartphone telematics to detect mobility patterns and determine the corresponding risk of an accident occurring. The proposed risk assessment scheme leverages British road safety data on accident frequencies and severities to quantify a relative risk value for four mobility types and derive an appropriate insurance product. Then, the relative risk of a multi-modal trip is calculated as the product of the mileage, the accident probability and the accident severity per mobility type. Additionally, a control banding risk assessment is presented as a qualitative pricing model for the proposed PAYM product. As civil society looks toward a low-carbon lifestyle, the insurance industry is tasked with adapting transportation insurance offerings to avoid a transport protection gap. This novel usage-based insurance product promotes a range of dependable, frictionless, and greener mobility solutions, benefiting society in our collective efforts to embed sustainability into our daily lives.
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spelling doaj-art-5ea6043adbfa4b5a8f603709870efded2025-08-20T02:48:58ZengElsevierTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives2590-19822024-11-012810128310.1016/j.trip.2024.101283Towards Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) insurance: The multimodal mobility risk transfer solutionEmer Owens0Barry Sheehan1Martin Mullins2Martin Cunneen3German Castignani4Leandro Masello5University of Limerick, Castletroy, Limerick, IrelandUniversity of Limerick, Castletroy, Limerick, Ireland; Corresponding author.University of Limerick, Castletroy, Limerick, IrelandUniversity of Limerick, Castletroy, Limerick, IrelandMotion-S, 5610 Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg; Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, LuxembourgUniversity of Limerick, Castletroy, Limerick, Ireland; Motion-S, 5610 Mondorf-les-Bains, LuxembourgClimate change, emissions and carbon–neutral city goals have increased the focus on developing a more diverse socio-environmentally friendly transportation ecosystem. Modern personal mobility incorporates the use of multiple modes of transport per week, or even within the same trip. The transition to sustainable, greener transport is exemplified by the rising popularity of micro-mobility, shared-mobility and electric vehicles. However, current mobility risk-transfer mechanisms do not support modern mobility preferences and travel behaviour. The insurance industry could incentivise sustainable modes of transport by offering innovative risk-transfer solutions. This research proposes Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) usage-based insurance, a novel transport insurance product for multi-modal mobility. PAYM insurance utilises travel behaviour data gathered from smartphone telematics to detect mobility patterns and determine the corresponding risk of an accident occurring. The proposed risk assessment scheme leverages British road safety data on accident frequencies and severities to quantify a relative risk value for four mobility types and derive an appropriate insurance product. Then, the relative risk of a multi-modal trip is calculated as the product of the mileage, the accident probability and the accident severity per mobility type. Additionally, a control banding risk assessment is presented as a qualitative pricing model for the proposed PAYM product. As civil society looks toward a low-carbon lifestyle, the insurance industry is tasked with adapting transportation insurance offerings to avoid a transport protection gap. This novel usage-based insurance product promotes a range of dependable, frictionless, and greener mobility solutions, benefiting society in our collective efforts to embed sustainability into our daily lives.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198224002690MobilityTelematicsOn-demand insuranceSmart cityUsage-based insuranceControl banding
spellingShingle Emer Owens
Barry Sheehan
Martin Mullins
Martin Cunneen
German Castignani
Leandro Masello
Towards Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) insurance: The multimodal mobility risk transfer solution
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Mobility
Telematics
On-demand insurance
Smart city
Usage-based insurance
Control banding
title Towards Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) insurance: The multimodal mobility risk transfer solution
title_full Towards Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) insurance: The multimodal mobility risk transfer solution
title_fullStr Towards Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) insurance: The multimodal mobility risk transfer solution
title_full_unstemmed Towards Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) insurance: The multimodal mobility risk transfer solution
title_short Towards Pay-As-You-Move (PAYM) insurance: The multimodal mobility risk transfer solution
title_sort towards pay as you move paym insurance the multimodal mobility risk transfer solution
topic Mobility
Telematics
On-demand insurance
Smart city
Usage-based insurance
Control banding
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198224002690
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