Alliance News
MaaS Alliance Global Advisory Board contributes to world-wide inclusion
The MaaS Alliance is expanding its membership to the four corners of the world, with new members joining from South America and Asia-Pacific regions. In order to reflect even more this international aspect of the organisation, a Global Advisory Board was invited to...
5 Years of MaaS Alliance – Towards decarbonisation, digitalisation and automation
We continue to explore the developments of MaaS in the past few years from different perspectives, giving the floor to the diverse sectors of our Membership. We take the opportunity to celebrate our achievements and activities of the past 5 years and continue our...
EIT Urban Mobility to invest in high-impact startups and SMEs
Urban mobility is undergoing one of the most transformational shifts of a generation. A successful strategy in the industry requires the adoption of a comprehensive and coherent approach, centered on innovative ventures that are disrupting this landscape. While the...
Public consultation to revise TEN-T guidelines
EU policy on transport infrastructure aims to facilitate transport across Europe and reduce regional, economic and social disparities by developing interconnected infrastructure for air, road, rail and shipping (the trans-European transport network). This policy is...
Achieving Sustainable Mobility with MaaS
According to the European Commission, the European transport sector has to deliver a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 whilst at the same time providing affordable, accessible, safe and clean transport solutions. Mobility as a Service or MaaS is...
MaaS Monitor: Creating functional foundations for the European MaaS model
Blog post by Piia Karjalainen, Secretary General of the MaaS Alliance According to the European Commission, the European transport sector has to deliver a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. At the same time, it should provide affordable, accessible,...
Interview with Toyota Financial Services – Our first 2021 New Member
We are really excited to welcome our first new Member of the year: Toyota Financial Services. To find out more about them, we had the opportunity to speak to Patrizia Niehaus, Director Mobility, Toyota Financial Services Europe-Africa Region. Toyota Financial Services...
Investing in MaaS – Why and How?
How do investors expect to make money out of MaaS? What are they looking for as a way of getting the return on investment? In this episode of the “Future MaaS” podcast series we talk about investing in MaaS with Tara Shirvani, Green Technologies, Smart Systems and...
5 Years of MaaS Alliance – Digitisation, standardisation and trust are key for MaaS
As we start 2021 with grand plans and ambitions for the MaaS Alliance, welcoming new members all over the globe, we continue to explore what brought us here. We take the opportunity to celebrate our achievements and activities of the past 5 years and continue our...
Looking back and looking forward
We start 2021 with a lot of hope after an difficult year; even if still in lockdown and forced at home in many parts of the world, we hope that 2020 left us with some learnings and opened our eyes on the vulnerability of our functional sectors, including the...
MaaS and Gen Z – ensuring a Mobility-as-a-Service ecosystem relevant to the future generations
As part of the MaaS Alliance working group ‘Users & Rules’, we regularly look at the different requirements and challenges of various user groups within the MaaS ecosystem. In this recent webinar “MaaS and Young People”, we talked to four experts about how the so...
European Commission presents Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy
The European Commission presented today its plan for green, smart and affordable mobility ‘Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy’ together with an Action Plan of 82 initiatives that will guide their work for the next four years. This strategy lays the foundation for...
5 Years of MaaS Alliance – Opportunities for businesses
To celebrate our achievements and activities of the past 5 years, we continue our conversation with the founding and current Board Members of the MaaS Alliance. This month, we have the pleasure to talk to Raluca Marian, General Delegate of IRU - Permanent Delegation...
How do we ensure Mobility-as-a-Service is relevant for younger generations?
MaaS Alliance is proud to organise this webinar fully dedicated to MaaS and Generation Z. One of the fundamental question will be how to build a MaaS ecosystem that moves young people? With a stellar cast of experts, we will discuss young people’s experience,...
5 Years of MaaS Alliance – Talking about mobility, users and multimodality
To celebrate our achievements and activities of the past 5 years, we continue our conversation with the founding and current Board Members of the MaaS Alliance. This month, we have the pleasure to talk to Laurianne Krid, Director General of FIA Region I, and member of...
Maas Alliance and TM2.0 publish report on Multimodal mobility
TM2.0 and MaaS Alliance have released a report focusing on Multimodal Mobility Management. The content of the report is based on the results of a joint workshop organised by both entities and hosted by ERTICO in Brussels on 19 February 2020. The members of both TM 2.0...
Join our Session on NAP at ITS Virtual Congress
How National Access Points can stimulate multimodal services and MaaS? Find out in the MaaS Alliance session organised during the ITS Virtual Congress on 9 November 14:00-15:00 CET. A National Access Point (NAP), a digital interface providing access to open mobility...
5 Years of MaaS Alliance – Looking back and forward
Interview with Timo Harakka Finnish Minister for Transport and Communications On 5 October, MaaS Alliance turns five, what a great journey it has been so far! From an idea born in few bright European minds to an actual drive of over 100 organisations working towards...