We know that MaaS will impact the future of mobility and its development significantly. But what are the other ambitions and how much will our ways of getting around really change in the future? Will it simply be optimised or will we see a rise in completely new modes...

TravelSpirit Foundation and MaaS Alliance have formed a partnership to undertake collaborative work of technologists, operators, and innovators to develop an open ecosystem for Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed recently,...

By Jim Beveridge, ERTICO - ITS Europe (written on 20 June 2018) The International Transport Forum 2018 Summit took place during a warm, sunny week in Leipzig. Under this years’ theme “Transport Safety and Security” ERTICO and its innovation platform MaaS Alliance...

MaaS Alliance members gathered in Brussels yesterday, 7 June, for the MaaS Alliance General Assembly. The agenda included a series of important topics - the adoption of the accounts from the previous year, the review of the activities carried out since the beginning...

MaaS Alliance has established a partnership with SAE International, a non-profit educational and scientific organisation dedicated to advancing mobility technology to better serve humanity. According to the Memorandum of Understanding, which serves as the basis of the...

[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 14 March. In anticipation of the day when this kind of journeys can be booked on a...

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...