Partner News
Mobility as a Service: What’s In It For Car Dealers?
On the 6th of June 2018, a group of dealers from across Europe gathered in Helsinki (Finland) to learn about the Mobility as a Service new transportation paradigm and evaluate how this can be an opportunity for car dealers. Over the past few years,...
ioki and MaaS Alliance Join Forces to Bring Demand Responsive Transport to Cities and Rural Areas
ioki, the German mobility solution provider, is set to become the newest member of the MaaS Alliance family, bringing it to a total of 46 organisations, all of which cooperate in order to achieve a vision of seamless, effortless mobility for the end user. MaaS...
Masabi and Uber Announce First-of-its-Kind Ride-Sharing and Public Transit Ticketing Partnership
MaaS Alliance member Uber has inked a partnership with Masabi, the global leader in public transit mobile ticketing, to let Uber customers book and use transit tickets in their app. For many people, getting around their city is already a multimodal affair, and this...
Corridor as a Service Streamlines Goods Logistics
The goal of Corridor as a Service is to improve goods logistics through digital services so that Finland can become a logistics hub for improving and expanding international commerce. At the moment, a preliminary assessment is being carried out to support the...
Public Consultations on CARTRE Thematic Areas
[Several MaaS Alliance members are direct or associated partners in the CARTRE project.] With the aim to progress on the strategic development of connected automated driving, the CARTRE initiative has opened a series of public consultations on the different CARTRE...
Cubic: Mobility as a Service – Putting Transit Front and Center
The concept of “Mobility as a Service” or “MaaS” is central to the idea of change in transportation. Generally understood as a vision of future mobility where travel happens through a combination of public, private and shared transportation modes, it remains an...
MaaS Alliance at MaaS Market Europe
The annual MaaS Market Europe event took place this year on 20th and 21st February 2018 in London. MaaS Market Europe is renowned for its focus on alternative forms of mobility, Mobility as a Service, and, in general, discussing new ways of getting people from point A...
MaaS Global and Whim Win European StartUp Prize
[MaaS Alliance congratulates MaaS Global, a member of the MaaS Alliance, on this award.] The European Startup Prize for Mobility is the largest European contest for startups that specialize in mobility that incorporates sustainable development. MaaS Global’s Whim...
The Bus that Catches the Passenger: PTV Group’s Role in the MaaS Alliance
Does owning a car still equal the ultimate freedom to go everywhere – of being independently mobile? The latest report conducted by MaaSLab in London confirms that people’s attitudes are changing and that the time for Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is now: 36% of the...
MyCorridor London Workshop Identifies Trust as Key to MaaS Success
[IRU, a MaaS Alliance member, is actively involved in the MyCorridor project and leads the project's work on communication and events.] Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is an integration of various modes of transport services into a single mobility service, accessible on...
MaaS to be the Focus Point of the First MyCorridor Project Workshop
[IRU, a MaaS Alliance member, is actively involved in the MyCorridor project and leads the project's work on communication and events.] MyCorridor is a 3-year project, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. The project's objective is to facilitate sustainable...
Guest Blog: Getting Behind the MaaS Movement
By Marius Macku, Uber (written on 17 November 2017) Getting around town should be seamless. It’s one of the reasons why Uber was founded in the first place, so that you could push a button and get a ride from A to B. Over time we realised that this could have the...
Open Transport Joins MaaS Alliance
Open Transport is proud to announce it has joined the MaaS Alliance as a member. The co-operation’s goal is to provide efficient and sustainable solutions that will transform the mobility landscape. United by a shared vision for the future of mobility, the MaaS...
Guest Blog: How to Make MaaS (Mobility as a Service) Reality?
By Marko Javornik, COMTRADE (written on 23 October 2017) I’m just on my way from Berlin, where I had the privilege to give a keynote speech at the Wocomoco conference. Wocomoco – as it can be seen by its name – is not just a usual conference on mobility services, but...
MaaS Alliance Partners with Uber to Support Shared Mobility
The MaaS Alliance is proud to announce Uber as a member of the Alliance and its Board of Directors. The aim of the co-operation is to provide an alternative to private car usage that is efficient and sustainable to help tackle congestion and other local mobility...
Finnish Company MaaS Global Completes Funding Round, Raising €14.2 Million
In its recently completed funding round, MaaS Global managed to raise €14.2 million. Significant additional investments were made by Transdev, Veho and Karsan, who are among the Finnish company’s older shareholders. New investors include the Japanese company DENSO and...
Comtrade Digital Services Hosted Business Hackathon in Berlin
On 9-11 June 2017, Comtrade Digital Services hosted a Business Hackathon in Berlin for the first time. The event in the Impact Hub in Berlin kicked off on Friday evening with a meetup on »How to make future mobility smarter«. Marko Javornik, VP/GM of Mobility and...
Technology and Finance Shapes Up to Make MaaS Happen
Sampo Hietanen, CEO of MaaS Global and ‘father’ of MaaS, started his address to ITS International’s recent MaaS Market conference in London by saying: “All of the problems that can be solved by a company or group of companies have already been solved, and now we are...