Comtrade Digital Services Hosted Business Hackathon in Berlin
On 9-11 June 2017, Comtrade Digital Services hosted a Business Hackathon in Berlin for the first time. The event in the Impact Hub in Berlin kicked off on Friday evening with a meetup on »How to make future mobility smarter«. Marko Javornik, VP/GM of Mobility and Travel department, Comtrade Digital Services, and Marta Kos Marko, […]
Technology and Finance Shapes Up to Make MaaS Happen
Sampo Hietanen, CEO of MaaS Global and ‘father’ of MaaS, started his address to ITS International’s recent MaaS Market conference in London by saying: “All of the problems that can be solved by a company or group of companies have already been solved, and now we are left with the big ones such as housing, transport and health. He […]
MaaS Provider Launches Midlands Trial
Mobility as a Service app ‘Whim’ launched for trials in Birmingham and the West Midlands last week and has announced a new partnership with bike sharing provider Nextbike. The app, developed by Finnish start up company MaaS Global, combines transport services to allow customers to make multi-modal journeys using bikes, buses, trains and taxis. Full […]
Join the MaaS Alliance at the ITS European Congress
The MaaS Alliance is co-organising an International session ahead of the Opening Ceremony of the ITS European Congress on Monday 19 June from 14:00 to 15:30. The session SIS01 titled “Mobility as a service – new business and service approaches” will look at the potential that MaaS has to become the mobility service of choice for future […]
MaaS Hackathon: Making Smart Mobility Smarter
More than a half of the global population lives in cities. Congestion is the number one urban issue, as shown in a recent EU study on transport. Sure, when innovators like Uber enter a city, they do decrease congestion within the first six months. But then, the congestion drop stops. More than 276,000 people have […]
Integrated Personal Mobility for Europe
The MaaS Alliance and IRU successfully held a workshop on Mobility-as-a-Service in Brussels which focused on new mobility schemes and next steps for the deployment of integrated, personalised, on-demand urban transport across Europe. MaaS puts the user at the core of transport services, offering a multi-modal integrated platform for tailor-made mobility solutions based on individual […]
ITS UK First Forum on Mobility as a Service
ITS UK has held its first forum on the topic of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in London, simultaneously launching a new interest group dedicated the subject. The organisation has identified MaaS as a key deliverable of ITS technologies, and although many of the concepts constituent parts, such as connected vehicles, local authorities, road user […]
Our Member UCL is Looking for PhD Studentship in MaaS
UCL-Energy invites applicants for a fully-funded four-year PhD studentship in transport modelling. In recent years, new business models, inspired by the sharing economy, and disruptive technologies are ushering in an exciting new age in transportation: the era of Intelligent Mobility. The arrival of ridehailing services, ridesharing, car clubs, community car clubs, and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) are […]
MaaS EVENT: New Mobility Schemes – Impact on Business, Operations and Regulation
A new wave of projects, promoted by private and public investment, is creating proof of concept to accelerate the deployment of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) across Europe. A number of barriers still exist and regulatory and business frameworks are very different across European countries. The MaaS Alliance is currently working on guidelines to define a common approach […]
MaaS Alliance Welcomed at the European Parliament
Today, the MaaS Alliance held a debate on ‘Mobility as a Service’ (MaaS) at the European Parliament in Brussels. Maas Alliance members were welcomed by British MEP Daniel Dalton, who hosted the event, and Nikolaus Von Peter, a Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc responsible for sustainable and intelligent transport and transport innovation […]