Developing Innovative Mobility Solutions in the Brussels-Capital Region
The brochure summarises the recommendations for regulatory and data governance frameworks to support the development of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in the Brussels-Capital Region. This highlights the need to enable the development of a competitive and innovative MaaS ecosystem, with both public and private actors, to maximise the likelihood that sustainable MaaS business models […]
EU Initiatives at the European Mobility Week
The European Mobility Week is the European Commission’s awareness-raising campaign to promote clean and sustainable urban transport that comes to towns and cities across Europe and beyond starting from 16 to 22 September. Around 3000 towns and cities from approximately 50 countries will participate by hosting events on the theme “Safe and healthy with sustainable mobility” […]
Key factors for the implementation of MaaS in a B2B context
The Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport, i.e. the Belgian administration for mobility, released a report assessing the interest of companies in MaaS solutions. The document gathers the results of a questionnaire addressed to mobility managers of a variety of Belgian organisations with at least 100 employees, as well as tables of discussion that followed […]
University of Queensland explores how MaaS schemes enhance personal mobility
A new smartphone app will put multiple transport options at the fingertips of University of Queensland students and staff as part of a 12-month Mobility as Service (MaaS) trial. The ODIN PASS app trial will test the ability to plan, book and pay for multi-modal trips on TransLink public transport, taxis, rideshare, car-share and e-scooters, […]
MaaS as seen by Systra: Redesigning Mobility
The concept of MaaS, meaning Mobility as a Service, does not easily fit a strict definition. It reflects the trend towards offering everything “as a service” and the gradual shift from possession of objects to use. According to this somewhat magical thinking, everything is accessible, connected and digitised via the virtual world. An appealing idea, […]
ERTICO at MaaS National Days Conference
On 13-14 July, TTS Italia held its MaaS Italian National Days Conference, where it presented the “Guidelines for the development of MaaS services in Italy”. The Guidelines aim to contribute towards the international and national discussion on the future of our mobility. According to TTS Italia, who elaborated the document, a digital future, simple, accessible […]
Arriva launches MaaS solution in Europe
Arriva launches new travel platform with multi-modal App Solution. Multi-modal smart mobility enables planning, paying and riding with any public transport operator, shared transport or micro-mobility provider. New brand “glimble by arriva” joins Arriva’s pan-European family. Arriva has added a completely new brand in the form of a smart mobility App to its public transport offering […]
Connecting Europe Express leaves the station
The ‘Connecting Europe Express’, a special train put together as part of the European Year of Rail 2021, will pull out of Lisbon train station on 2 September. It will stop in more than 100 towns and cities during its five-week journey before arriving in Paris on 7 October. Departing from Lisbon and ending its trip in […]
Developing MaaS: User, operator and governance perspectives
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) can be briefly described as a concept that aims to fulfil individuals’ mobility needs in a sustainable way by combining different transport services, potentially offering a path for breaking out of individual and societal car dependence. The combination of integration across modes, information and payment systems, as well as customization […]
Renfe develops a countrywide MaaS platform
A countrywide platform that allows users to plan, book and pay for trips in a single application Integrates different modes of transport to provide seamless door-to-door traveling Renfe expecting up to €156 million additional revenue with the intermodal platform Siemens Mobility and everis have been awarded a 5-year contract by Renfe, the national railway company […]