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 &...

[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...

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...