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...

Written by MaaS Alliance Senior Manager Piia Karjalainen for TrafficInfraTech Magzine (first published on 12 December 2017) Changes in the personal mobility market present great opportunities for urban mobility players to attract new customers. Car manufacturers and...

On 29th November, forty high-level experts and professionals met in Tampere, Finland, to discuss steps to foster interoperability and roaming in the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) ecosystem. In the context of MaaS, roaming is defined as the ability of a MaaS customer to...

The Ministry of Transport and Communications, together with the MaaS Alliance, organised the third high-level round table discussion on Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in Tampere on 29 November. The event focused on the roaming of MaaS services across national and urban...

[The MaaS Alliance commends the efforts of Finland in adopting this ground-breaking legislation and sees it as a great step towards creating a true mobility-as-a-service. Read the full press release from the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications below.] The...

Throughout November, the MaaS Alliance President Mr Jacob Bangsgaard and Senior Manager Ms Piia Karjalainen will be on the road and actively attending a series of events across Europe. If you find yourself at any of the events listed below, do not hesitate to approach...

MaaS Alliance partnered with the 2nd edition of Autonomy & the Urban Mobility Summit held in Paris last week. MaaS Alliance President Mr Jacob Bangsgaard attended the roundtable discussion on Mobility as a Service on Thursday, 21st October, together with Nathalie...

Traffic​ ​Management​ ​as​ ​a​ ​Service​ ​(TMaaS.eu),​ ​an​ ​urban​ ​mobility​ ​project​ ​driven​ ​by the​ ​​City​ ​of​ ​Ghent,​ ​has​ ​been​ ​selected​ ​by​ ​EU​ ​initiative Urban​ ​Innovative​ ​Actions​ ​(UIA)​ ​to​ ​receive​ ​financing.​ ​The​ ​Traffic​...

The MaaS Alliance is proud to announce its partnership with Autonomy & The Urban Mobility Summit, the annual international event on the future of urban mobility, taking place this year from 19th to 21st October in Paris. Autonomy was created as a space for the urban...

Tampere is a pioneer in digitalization services. The city has a major role in supporting the three-year Mobility as a Service (MaaS) ecosystem project, which is being implemented in cooperation with Siemens and Tuomi Logistiikka. This is the first time publicly...

Imagine paying a flat fee for unlimited use of any public transport mode, including buses, trains, bicycles and a pre-set amount of taxi rides. This is what Whim - an app created by Finnish firm Maas Global - hopes to offer to Singapore. Maas Global co-founder Kaj...

As Mobility-as-a-Service starts to become more common in the fleet and automotive industry’s vocabulary, BMaaS (Business Mobility-as-a-Service) has taken a look at some of the people who are shaping what MaaS actually means. The top 10 Mobility-as-a-Service...

By Piia Karjalainen (written on 14th September 2017) I was glad to read the POLIS discussion paper on MaaS, exploring the opportunities and risks of MaaS from cities’ perspective. It goes without saying that a particularly important role in the development of the MaaS...