Technological Prospection for Terrestrial Mobility: a technology roadmapping case study

This paper aims, via the TRM and T-Plan methodology, to propose a theoretical-empirical framework for technological prospecting for terrestrial mobility. From a constructive epistemology, this research is classified as descriptive of qualitative nature and used as method a single case study with participant observation. For data collection, we carried out meetings and qualitative interviews with semi-structured scripts with managers; workshops and questionnaires with specialists in the area of terrestrial mobility (among them teachers, researchers and students from different fields of study, such as: engineering, business, law and physics). As a result, a visual representation with future orientation for terrestrial mobility was generated in terms of one, three and five years. The results of this study provides an early insight into the potential for change that has emerged over the mobility system established more than a century ago. The consequences may result in the creation of a new mobility ecosystem with potential effects on various sectors such as automotive, finance, insurance, energy, public sector, medical, legal, media and telecommunications, technology, retail and transportation. These effects may be related to creation, value reduction or even mixed impacts.