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Autonomous city-wide mobility networks

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L5 – Extra High Complexity

At the highest maturity, automation replaces routine staff roles across entire mobility fleets: bikes, scooters, delivery vehicles, batteries, and service points across cities.

This category enables centrally orchestrated autonomous mobility networks, managing assets, energy, maintenance, and access from a single platform.

What it solves for the operator

  • Reduces routine staffing across cities
  • Enables rapid network expansion
  • Centralises fleet management and maintenance
  • Supports 24/7 mobility services

How it works

Multiple autonomous warehouses, hubs, and service zones are orchestrated under one platform, coordinating fleet status, battery cycles, and usage analytics.

Typical business impact

  • Replacement of fleet support teams
  • Strong TCO improvement
  • Linear scalability across urban areas

Example solutions

  • Zero People Bike Multi-Level Warehouse
  • Zero People Scooters Multi-Level Warehouse Network
  • Zero People Urban Mobility Hub Network
  • Zero People E-Bike Service & Maintenance Network
  • Zero People Last-Mile Delivery Vehicle Network

Efficiency Calculation

Operating staffed mobility fleets requires continuous support across shifts and locations.

A conservative per-city baseline:

  • ~320 routine mobility operations/day
  • ~6 minutes manual handling per operation
  • ~365 operating days/year
  • This results in ~11,680 manual hours/year.
  • With ~85% operational coverage and ~90% adoption, the system eliminates ~8,930 hours/year, equivalent to ~4.5 FTE per city.
  • Across networks, this scales linearly.

What this means in practice:

These solutions replace entire layers of routine mobility operations staff, enabling cities and operators to scale fleets without proportional increases in personnel.