Finnish capital city Helsinki aims to make private vehicle ownership redundant by 2025, and other cities will follow. By offering a digital service that integrates the entire transportation network and end-to-end journey planning, transportation will be made highly convenient and cashless.
The Future of Transportation World Conference will examine MaaS and what it means to all current mass-transportation providers, automotive manufacturers, rail operators, taxi firms, new mobility providers, and small-scale private providers of the last-mile transportation operations of the future. The challenges of integrating and regulating so many forms of transport and so many providers will be significant.
We will hear the latest results and findings from those building a MaaS network, visionary startups, specialist consultants, and experimental project leaders from cities around the world already trialling concepts.
Dennis Mica
business development manager
2getthere
NETHERLANDS
Synopsis: Today, many cities are trying to remove cars from their cities. It is a worthwhile initiative, but there is often a lack of good alternatives for traveling toward your destination. 2getthere will explain more about the current possibilities of self-driving public transit systems, their current technical status and their benefits. Sharing rides will mean less space needed for cars and more space for citizens. In addition, 2getthere will provide insights into the projects under contract: real projects that actually solve a transit need, without a steward or attendant on board.
Tom Williams
director of technology and innovation
Ascendal Group
UK
Synopsis: This talk will discuss the work required to bridge the gap between current operational standards in autonomous tests and trials and what is expected in public transport services. Two worlds with different approaches to operations are converging, and we have to ensure that we can deliver safe, reliable, customer-focused public transport solutions leveraging new technology. Achieving this will require changes to regulations, technology tailored to public transport standards, and an evolution in the way traditional operators deliver services. We will discuss our work to date and the challenges that will face the mobility ecosystem.
Werner Kutil
international business development manager
Cityway
FRANCE
Synopsis: The presentation will provide detailed information on the Moovizy MaaS project. In the Saint-Etienne Metropolitan Area in France, citizens will be able to manage their mobility in a completely new way. With the help of Cityway, provider of IT solutions for MaaS, at the end of 2019 the Saint-Etienne Metropolitan Area will launch its full MaaS application: Moovizy 2. With Moovizy 2, thanks to a single smartphone application people will have high-quality, multimodal real-time information including intermodal real-time and predictive journey planning, and multimodal m-ticketing (use (book, unlock, validate) and pay) within the French Metropolitan Area of Saint-Etienne.
Jan Bonhage
partner
Hengeler Mueller
GERMANY
Synopsis: Platforms that bring together users and mobility providers will be an infrastructural backbone of many MaaS models. Several legal, structural and regulatory challenges arise in such platform schemes where service intermediaries substitute traditional service providers or mobility through individual vehicle ownership. This presentation will address the legal framework for platform models and increasingly relevant issues such as asset control and data ownership, privacy, consumer protection, competition, IT security, liability and regulatory evasion.
Matthias Berberich
counsel
Hengeler Mueller
GERMANY
Synopsis: Platforms that bring together users and mobility providers will be an infrastructural backbone of many MaaS models. Several legal, structural and regulatory challenges arise in such platform schemes where service intermediaries substitute traditional service providers or mobility through individual vehicle ownership. This presentation will address the legal framework for platform models and increasingly relevant issues such as asset control and data ownership, privacy, consumer protection, competition, IT security, liability and regulatory evasion.
Juan Castro Arias
R&D project manager
Indra Sistemas SA
SPAIN
Synopsis: Shift2Rail (S2R) is the first European rail initiative to seek focused research and innovation and market-driven solutions by accelerating the integration of new and advanced technologies into innovative rail product solutions. S2R Innovation Program 4 (IP4) seeks to increase the attractiveness of railway transport by offering transparent and integrated door-to-door trips to promote multimodal transport. Hence, it is fully aligned with the MaaS approach. The CONNECTIVE project, included in IP4, is developing an interoperability framework that allows the integration of multimodal services. CONNECTIVE is also working on new business analytics techniques to perform useful analysis.
Boyd Cohen
CEO
Iomob
SPAIN
Synopsis: In this presentation, Iomob's CEO will demonstrate the latest deployments of the company's decentralized, open MaaS platform, including a project with Renfe, Spain's national rail service, and Ford Motors in the USA. He will challenge the status quo of the MaaS market and invite others to participate in the open mobility marketplace.
Jan Tijs Nijssen
associate principal
McKinsey & Company
NETHERLANDS
Synopsis: The presentation will discuss the size of the market/value pool for Mobility as a Service, the ways in which the market might develop, the players that are emerging and what it will take to win.
Eric Mink
program manager MaaS
Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat
NETHERLANDS
Synopsis: Eric Mink is the program manager for the seven national MaaS pilots in the Netherlands. Together with seven regions, his team has kicked off seven national pilots for MaaS based on a harmonized definition, but each with their own policy goals or target groups. MaaS in the Netherlands is a means, not an end. Five of the seven pilots have now been awarded via tenders. The Netherlands is working on standardization in order to create an ecosystem where a level playing field for MaaS service providers and transport operators is guaranteed. Given that all private parties within the framework agreement have agreed to share their data with governments, the aim is to learn together what the (behavioral) effects of MaaS are. Based on the data, the Netherlands is aiming for real-time optimization of the mobility system on policy goals such as sustainability, traffic jams, occupancy ratios for public transport and accessibility of rural areas.
Andreas Fuhrer
master program manager
SBB Swiss Railways
SWITZERLAND
Synopsis: For many people, mobility is a hassle. For national economies, it's a costly necessity. We are turning things upside down by fostering meaningful mobility emphasizing quality of life. A key element is the national digital infrastructure integrating all modes of transport from public transportation to car- and ridesharing, robotaxis and innovative slow mobility. In this talk we will explain the concept of meaningful mobility and what is underway to facilitate it, from the already implemented core integrating 250 transport companies, to the current work on an open digital infrastructure for shared mobility.
Darian Heim
director of growth
Sparelabs Inc
SPAIN
Synopsis: This presentation will deal with the lessons from the integration of Sparelab's (Vancouver) GoPass on-demand technology MaaS app in Dallas, Texas, which won APTA's 2019 Innovation Award. It will discuss the organization and expansion of the currently 14 sub-zones (more than 25 are planned) in the periphery of Dallas, where a flexible on-demand service feeds passengers into high-frequency light-rail trunk lines. It will also deal with the design of a user-centric consultation and booking process for journeys with flexible and fixed legs, plus mixing fleets of dedicated operator-owned vehicles and undedicated privately owned taxis to deliver on-demand service in peak hours.
Marco Ferreira
systems engineer
Thales Portugal SA
PORTUGAL
Synopsis: Mobility is undergoing significant transformations but also facing challenges. Hyperconnectivity is changing the way people address mobility and the paradigm of seamless travel. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is an emerging concept that considers the mobility system as a whole, improving its efficiency and sustainability, and benefiting operators and travelers. This paper focuses on the active position taken by Shift2Rail; proposing and demonstrating a technological enabler addressing MaaS; aiming to provide tools and guidelines to ease the entry of transport operators into fully multimodal ecosystems; supporting efficient, seamless and pleasant travel experiences for passengers; and strongly contributing to a reduction in the impact of transport on the environment.
Joel Rozada
CEO & founder
The Techno Creatives
SWEDEN
Synopsis: Future mobility services are enabled by technology, but will also benefit from being designed more with its context in mind - both from a business model perspective and it usage. I will share learnings and conclusions based on real world applications and live products.
Christina Hubin
research and development division lead
Upstream Mobility
AUSTRIA
Synopsis: The DyNaMo (dynamic mobility management ) project calculates a total optimum for a given input of persons and providers. It processes static, dynamic, historical, real-time and forecasted data. We developed a graph optimization model that processes data, capacity of the vehicles, and infrastructure as well as supply and user demands. This dynamic mobility management system provides information for the optimal offer-distance-time-transport relationship in simulation, in real time and in forecast. The output of this learning system creates the total optimum for every single user demand in correlation to the number of demands and the traffic conditions.