2016/09/21 by Franco Callegati, Callegati, Franco, Saverio Giallorenzo +5
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis #Transportation and Mobility Innovations #Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1609.06447
openalex publication_date 2016/09/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) applies the everything-as-a-service paradigm of Cloud Computing to transportation: a MaaS provider offers to its users the dynamic composition of solutions of different travel agencies into a single, consistent interface. Traditionally, transits and data on mobility belong to a scattered plethora of operators. Thus, we argue that the economic model of MaaS is that of federations of providers, each trading its resources to coordinate multi-modal solutions for mobility. Such flexibility comes with many security and privacy concerns, of which insider threat is one of the most prominent. In this paper, we follow a tiered structure --- from individual operators to markets of federated MaaS providers --- to classify the potential threats of each tier and propose the appropriate countermeasures, in an effort to mitigate the problems.