Skipr raises a €7M Series A funding round to build the future of mobility
Skipr, a Belgian startup that enables companies to bring the future of mobility to their employees, has secured a seven million euro Series A round of funding. Leading Belgian bank Belfius is investing in the company, alongside existing investor Lab Box, the start-up studio of automobile distributor D’Ieteren. The funding enables Skipr to further develop […]
Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy
The European Green Deal includes a target to reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2050.The Commission intends to adopt a comprehensive strategy to meet this target and ensure that the EU transport sector is fit for a clean, digital and modern economy. Objectives include: increasing the uptake of zero-emission vehicles making sustainable alternative […]
Cubic and Moovit to redefine mobile engagement for travelers
Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB) today announced its Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) business division, the world’s leading fare collection solution provider, is expanding its partnership with Moovit – an Intel company, a leading Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions company and the maker of the number one urban mobility app – to further co-develop mobile experiences that enable travelers to ‘look, book and pay’ for […]
Key takeaways from “MaaS for All: Creating a User-centric, Inclusive MaaS Ecosystem”
What can we do in order to ensure an inclusive future for all users of transport and mobility? What has the research up to this point showed us, and are there any existing case studies we can learn from? These are some of the questions that last week’s virtual workshop – MaaS for All: Creating a […]
MaaS Alliance response to EC Data Strategy
The EU Data Strategy set out to make Europe an agile data economy and to enable society to make better decisions both in private and public sector. Creating new guidelines for the European data economy is a welcome development which can create the foundation for economic growth and increased well-being of the European citizens. Being […]
Join the world’s first 3D virtual smart mobility congress
Finnish mobility ecosystem joined forces to launch a green and smart mobility event to offer companies tools to reinvent their business to survive in the post-COVIDworld and to explore the potential of smart mobility solutions in Green Recovery. The first-of-a-kind 3D congress, “Green & Smart Recovery – Mobility 2.0”, will take place virtually on Thursday […]
Car Rental Gateway launches new Titanium Mobility App
Titanium Mobility is a newly launched whitelabel app by Car Rental Gateway. This app gives a possibility to fully digitise car rental service and through that provides customers with contact-free and frictionless rental experience. It has a built-in ability to interact with different cloud services enabling full rental flow from booking and accessing the car […]
European Green Deal call
The Green Deal call will mobilise research and innovation to foster a just and sustainable societal transition aiming at ‘leaving nobody behind’. Projects are expected to deliver tangible and visible results relatively quickly and show how research and innovation can provide concrete solutions for the Green Deal main priorities. This is why the call will […]
MaaS of the Month: RouteRANK
Technology company routeRANK (established in 2006) provides mobility portals as an IT service. They address the entire door-to-door route by integrating all relevant modes of transport such as air, rail (high speed, national and regional), coach, public transport, Park+Ride, car, rental car, fleet, car sharing, car pooling, limousine, ride hailing, taxi, e-bike, bike, walk and […]
COVID-19 – An opportunity to redesign mobility towards greater sustainability and resilience?
The Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) concept has recently attracted considerable interest among policy makers and the industry for its potential to improve the overall efficiency of the transport system and to reduce reliance on private cars in urban centers. By doing so, MaaS can contribute to the reduction of both CO2 emissions and pollution, thereby supporting the […]