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People’s (and goods’) transport will fundamentally change due to autonomous driving and emission-reduced drives. This enables new mobility concepts, especially for inner-city transport of people. An example for such autonomous vehicles are so-called people-movers: small electrically powered busses carrying up to 15 passengers from individual departure points to individual destinations. Next to the research regarding autonomous driving and alternative types of drives, it is also necessary to study and research how future users are willing to use new types of inner-city transport. Such transport needs specific information platforms organizing the trips and routing the people mover. Those platforms do not yet exist.
As part of our research, we developed an exemplary people-mover platform architecture. We were using methods from agile software development to gather customer requirements, as well as an information logistics concept as a validated link between user requirements and the architecture. We designed the architecture using microservices to enable growth and adaptability at the same time. As the research is still going on, these characteristics are necessary in order to keep building a customer-focused platform for the inner-city mobility of the future.
Networked digitalisation as an enabler for smart products and data-based business models presents companies with numerous and diverse challenges on their way through the digital transformation. Various reference architecture models have been developed in recent years to support these companies. A detailed analysis of these and in particular their use by companies quickly showed that currently existing reference models have major weaknesses in their practical suitability. With the Aachen Digital Architecture Management (ADAM), a framework was developed that specifically addresses the weaknesses of existing reference architectures and specifically takes up their strengths. As a holistic model, specially developed for use by companies, ADAM structures the digital transformation of companies in the areas of digital infrastructure and business development starting from customer requirements. Systematically, companies are enabled to drive the design of the digital architecture, taking into account design fields. The description of the design fields offers a detailed insight into the essential tasks on the way to a digitally networked company. The model is not only a structuring aid, but also contains a construction kit with the design fields to configure the procedure in the digital transformation. The procedure differentiates between the development of the digitalisation strategy and the implementation of the digital architecture. Three different case studies also show how ADAM is used in industry, what structuring support it can provide and how the digital transformation can be configured. The breadth and depth of ADAM enable companies to take the path of digital transformation systematically and in a structured manner, without ignoring the value-creating components of digitalisation. This qualifies ADAM as a sustainability-oriented framework, as it places the economic scaling, needs-based adaptation and future-oriented robustness of solution modules in the focus of digital transformation.