Ministry of Transport and Communications Anne Berner will meet Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc in Helsinki on 29 November. In addition to their bilateral discussions, Minister Berner and Commissioner Bulc will attend the MaaS Summit, organised by the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Minister Berner and Commissioner Bulc will discuss the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) approach and its promotion as well as Finland’s advanced transport legislation. They will also talk about new forms of transport system financing and open transport data, among other topics.

Traffic emission reductions will be a key topic in both the bilateral discussions and the MaaS Summit. Achieving the emission reduction targets in the Paris Climate Change Agreement will require new kinds of thinking and services.

“The emission reduction targets are tough to achieve, and we need to act now. I hope we will have frank discussions today and that we will find support for new thinking on how to organise environmentally friendly transport services. There is enormous potential and lots of business opportunities in transport services, and we need good cooperation to reach the best outcomes,” Minister Berner, who is also a Board Member of the MaaS Alliance, says.

The MaaS Summit, organised for the second time, brings together top transport experts from around the world, including representatives from business and industry, research institutes and the public sector. It will be organised in conjunction with the SLUSH event.