Partner News
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...
MaaS Provider Launches Midlands Trial
Mobility as a Service app ‘Whim’ launched for trials in Birmingham and the West Midlands last week and has announced a new partnership with bike sharing provider Nextbike. The app, developed by Finnish start up company MaaS Global, combines transport services to allow...
ITS UK First Forum on Mobility as a Service
ITS UK has held its first forum on the topic of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in London, simultaneously launching a new interest group dedicated the subject. The organisation has identified MaaS as a key deliverable of ITS technologies, and although many of the...
Our Member UCL is Looking for PhD Studentship in MaaS
UCL-Energy invites applicants for a fully-funded four-year PhD studentship in transport modelling. In recent years, new business models, inspired by the sharing economy, and disruptive technologies are ushering in an exciting new age in transportation: the era of...
West Midlands and MaaS Global Plans MaaS in the UK
Travellers in the West Midlands could soon benefit from a new integrated transport system allowing them to access multi-modal ‘Mobility as a Service’ (MaaS) via their smartphones. The service Whim, by the MaaS operator MaaS Global, will be launched in the West...
MaaS Alliance – The Public Transport Operator Perspective
The Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM - Autoritat del Transport Metropolità) is a voluntary inter-administrative consortium of public transport administrations in the Catalonia region working in the counties of Alt Penedès, Baix Llobregat, Barcelonès, Garraf,...
Guest Blog: Google, MaaS, etc.
By Josep Laborda, RACC (first published on LinekdIn Pulse) We (all) love Google. The user interface of its search engine is sleek and dead simple to use. It’s basically composed of a beautiful, clean logo, and a big, neat search box. What else? Well, a closer look at...
Siemens Present Their MaaS Solutions and MaaS Alliance in Berlin
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) proposes a novel transport paradigm which aims to reduce the need to own a car, by providing travellers with easy access to a range of transport alternatives, which are packaged according to personal preferences and can be paid based on...
Transport Systems Catapult Hosted MaaS Event
On 21 September, the Transport Systems Catapult hosted a one day “Mobility as a Service” (MaaS) Conference in Birmingham. The event bought together thought-leaders from the technology, policy and business sectors to discuss the latest developments in the growth of...
