MaaS Alliance welcomes new member of the Board of Directors
We are very pleased to announce that we have filled in another seat on the MaaS Alliance Board of Directors (BoD). While continuously working on creating the Open MaaS ECO system, the MaaS Alliance is always looking to make sure we are represented by our members in achieving this goal. Being neutral, independent, and a […]
Cubic Transportation Systems provides National Ticketing Solution For New Zealand’s Public Transport
On Friday 21 October 2022, the Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) announced its selection of Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) to provide a National Ticketing Solution (NTS) for Aotearoa New Zealand. This approach to public transport ticketing is one of the first global models, and when completed, it will cover 13 regions across New Zealand and […]
MaaS Alliance Webinar on Achieving MaaS Success with Incentives
The success of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) does not only depend on technology and policy. If the end user does not see the added value proposition of the concept, widespread use of MaaS apps will be hard to achieve. On Wednesday, 19 October, the MaaS Alliance hosted a webinar to discuss the achievements of […]
Commission introduces a new Mobility Action Award
Does your town, city or region deserve to be recognised for its work regarding sustainable urban mobility? Are you an organisation, school, company or NGO promoting sustainable travel behaviour through impactful mobility planning? In 2022, the European Commission introduced the MOBILITYACTION Award, which aims to place a spotlight on the campaign’s MOBILITYACTIONs, which are open to any […]
SkedGo: MaaS tourism – reimagining travel
World Tourism Day took place on Tuesday 27 September 2022, hosted in Indonesia under the theme: ‘Rethinking Tourism’. It provides a much-needed opportunity to reflect on how tourism can be more sustainable, inclusive and resilient. It comes at a poignant time. As more people travel following the pandemic there is, once again, an increased burden on […]
Mobility needs to work with private transport, not against it
Globally, the application of multimodal transport solutions to solve today’s transport issues is growing at an ever-increasing pace. The value of the Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) market is expected to be worth an estimated $1,759 billion by 2028. Alongside this, there’s an increasing desire from Governments, Local Councils and communities to move around cities using multiple modes of […]
Arriva Group reaches agreement to purchase its businesses
Arriva Group is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of its businesses in Denmark and Serbia, as well as its bus business in Poland to Mutares – an international financial investor – completing its strategy, launched in 2021, to focus on its core markets in the UK and […]
Mobility as a Service is still alive
Started in 2015, during the ITS World Congress in Helsinki, Finland, Mobility as a Service (MaaS) was the new buzzword. We are all raising expectations, discussing the possibilities and promises of MaaS, and working at solutions to facilitate the future: will it ever come, or is it a hype? We believe in MaaS, and we […]
Ubiwhere presents POSER: A True Geolocation project
Ubiwhere presents POSER, a project about a decentralised approach to determining the location of devices in a trustworthy way. POSER’s main goal is to be a true geolocation developed for Smart Mobility. The urban population continues to grow, challenging cities to find the right balance between urban development needs and global environmental changes. POSER can […]
MaaS Alliance publishes White Paper on Mobility Data Spaces and MaaS
On Friday, 7 October, the MaaS Alliance Working Group, Technology and Standards publishes a White Paper on Mobility Data Spaces and MaaS. In the previous MaaS Market Playbook, the MaaS Alliance advocated for “Advanced data sharing models and incentive schemes”, which naturally leads to the Mobility Data Spaces. Mobility Data Spaces can be seen as […]