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...

[Join the CEF Transport Call Virtual Info Day on 31st May to learn more about the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) financing framework, how to prepare a good proposal and the topics of most relevance to the upcoming call.] About the 2018 CEF Transport call With an...

As interest in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) grows, the MaaS Alliance continues to spread the word and promote MaaS at various events. Recently, on 29th March, MaaS Alliance Senior Manager Piia Karjalainen spoke at the Redefining Mobility Summit in Contra...

Just a hop, skip, and jump – or, as in the world of MaaS, a bus, flight, and train ride – away from its Brussels’ headquarters, the MaaS Alliance arrived in Hamburg on 14th March. In anticipation of the day when this kind of journeys can be...

Intelligent Transport Systems Australia (ITS Australia), the peak body for the intelligent transport systems industry in Australia, together with the iMOVE CRC, has today announced a project to better understand what Mobility as a Service means for Australia and,...

Last week, MaaS Alliance’s Senior Manager Piia Karjalainen moderated the session “Enabling New Mobility Services and MaaS” at the bi-annual IT-TRANS conference in Karlsruhe. Together with MaaS Alliance members Siemens (represented by Dr Filippo Logi) and...

A riveting exchange of experiences and opinions on Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) took place this week in Westminster. MaaS Alliance Senior Manager Piia Karjalainen attended a public inquiry at the UK’s House of Commons Transport Committee at Westminster, along with...

How will mobility change in the future and how will society at large react to this change? This was just one of the many questions that the Mobility of the Future event attempted to answer. Organised by Junction, the three-day event featured a hackathon, a...

[Interview with MaaS Alliance Senior Manager Piia Karjalainen.] What is the biggest benefit of MaaS? MaaS is basically providing you a better everyday mobility with several options based on your own preferences – without any hassle or confusion. I truly believe that...

The MaaS Alliance and IMOVE project cordially invites their members, partners and interested stakeholders to this one day workshop on the integration of public transport into MaaS Services. Registration is now open and available on Eventbrite here. Focus & expected...

[Last week MaaS Alliance senior manager Piia Karjalainen gave an interview to SmartRail World, ahead of the SmartRail Rail Technology Congress, where Piia will be speaking on 18th April.] Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is the integration of different forms of transport...

The Open Call Challenge, with a submission deadline on 16th February, aims to look for Smart City solutions, based on Open Data technology, that solve real-world challenges. About EMBERS EMBERS is an EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 program. At the...

FISITA, the international membership organisation for the automotive and mobility engineering profession, is embracing the concept of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) through a new Strategic Partnership with the MaaS Alliance. Jacob Bangsgaard, President of the MaaS...

By Piia Karjalainen, MaaS Alliance (written on 29 January 2018) MaaS is here, MaaS is there, MaaS is everywhere. MaaS, Mobility as a Service, has been a real buzzword in transport already for a few years and the fascination only seems to grow. Now this prominent new...

[Piia Karjalainen, Senior Manager at the MaaS Alliance, talks to TaaS Technology Magazine about how we create an ecosystem of integrated mobility services.] The Mobility as a Service (MaaS) sector is expected to grow to a business worth over one trillion euro by 2030....

The annual Connected Smart Cities Conference (CSCC) took place this year on 11 January, bringing together representatives of cities, international institutions, academia and industry to discuss this year’s theme “Cities Driving the Digital Transition”. The...

Global smartphone use is set to pass the five billion mark by 2019. For the first time in history, we’ll be entering an era where the majority of people will have a GPS on them at all times. We’ll no longer have to worry about following maps — interconnected...