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Mobility as a Service Alliance

MaaS Alliance

The Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Alliance is a public-private partnership creating the foundations for a common approach to MaaS, unlocking the economies of scale needed for successful implementation and take-up of MaaS in Europe and beyond.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Policy agenda for cities

22 May 2025

The MaaS Alliance is a Private Public Non-Profit organisation with a clear mission: Improve accessibility and Livability for all People. Our experience working with Public Authorities: Cities - Regions - Metropole - Member states - EU - Global- are quite simulare: The roles and responsibilities needs to be set and made clear for everybody. There are difference in the Roles within PA: City Council, and between PA and PTO - MSP`s. The responsibilities of Mobility are laying at the City Council. To Manage the Public Domain, the space we live, move, work, recreate in, is the responsibility of the PA. We are a strong believer of supporting the PA with the right Tools to manage their responsibility: the public Domain. Creating and setting the Tools is the same for all PA`s and can be set by the EU through the member state to the local City. Deploying-Using- implementing the tools is a City responsibility. Facilitating Cities in adopting the Mobility Tools and create a generic solution that can be used by all PA is the challenge. We strongly believe in creating the Open Mobility Ecosystem, based on the Open Standards and Open tools, open for all Cities to be used. We should support all PA with connecting to the Open Mobility Tools and share knowledge on "how to achieve the required outputs. Cities should focus on the Output: managing Mobility Services and Infrastructure. Cities are in the lead of what their needs are. We should align in creating and offering the tools to work with to enable the goals for every city. We should create one EU Tech collaborate in creating the needed Open Tools. - Open Maps - Open Booking-paying-ticketing standards - EU Wallet EIDAS - EU Interoperability But most of all, make sure we facilitate the needs of Cities and put this City Need first in all requirements.
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Response to Technical specification for interoperability relating to the telematics subsystem of the rail system

14 Mar 2025

The MaaS Alliance is happy with this initiative. We do have a concern about a realisation and Open Mobility Ecosystem and the Mobility Silo`s that are kept in tack. Within the: - MPMF: Multimodal Pasenger Mobility Forum and - MDMS: Multimodel Digital Mobility Services, we aligned and addressed the minimal functions to have FRAND in place, to create an Open Market without lock-in and issued the recommendations to create, maintain and enforce the need to have en open market in favour of the passengers. We want to point out that the new MDMS and SDBTR regulation should cover these requirements to provide an Open Mobility Ecosystem to serve All users and that all users have all mobility options to choose from within every digital environment,
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Response to Revision of the specifications for EU-wide Multimodal Travel Information Services (Delegated Regulation 2017/1926)

27 Jun 2023

Reply on the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1926 supplementing Directive 2010/40/EU also known as EU Wide Multimodal Travel Information Services (MMTIS) The MaaS Alliance is happy to see that the Digitisation within the Mobility Industry is majoring and getting more User focused. Mandating historic and Real Time data on all mobility services without any siloes and covering all assets are very important to create new capacity within cities (Urban Development) and manage existing Cities (Urban Management) to create accessibility and liveability within Cities, within regions and Metropoles and between Countries and Continents. It is very important to keep on focussing on the real impact we can make on implementing and reaching goals of the green deal. We do want to point out some additional clarification and attention 1) We salute the ambition to extend the list of static, historic and observed travel and traffic data along with the dynamic ones. Looking at the state of industry, we must point out that parts of the mobility industry is only getting started with their process of data digitisation. For them, we would like some clarification on the support that will be offered. Also, if the flexibility in data provision and further adjustment is to be discussed directly with National Access Points or on a wider basis. 2) We also request that further clarity is brought to the process of proving interoperability between EU-recommended standards and other technical specifications. That part is crucial for MaaS Alliance members who operate worldwide and have heavily invested in compliancy with local data regulations. Who would address the investment required in the global development of interoperability? Would the EU be leading such work to support European companies in their extension effort? We see a strong EU ambition to the WHAT question. We would ask for a more clarification on the HOW answers. - How will we implement all the required standards and data (Organisation-level)? - How will we maintain the Eco system and all the standards (Funding-level)? - How will we guarantee the current and future quality (Quality-level)? We want to make sure that the output is as good as possible.
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Meeting with Daniel Mes (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

17 Jun 2021 · Keynote speech on multimodal mobility as a service at the Maas Alliance General Assembly

Response to Revision of the Intelligent Transport Systems Directive

18 Nov 2020

The MaaS Alliance agrees that EU has taken some significant steps towards more intelligent and multimodal mobility system, the current ITS Directive playing a key role in facilitating the access to multimodal data. The access to data is the first precondition for the development of MaaS services but data availability alone does not enable an industry like MaaS developing. Today, there remains a clear need for further actions on interoperability and APIs, ticketing, cooperation and fair competition. These challenges, also identified in the report "Remaining Challenges For EU-wide Integrated Ticketing and Payment Systems", should be addressed in the upcoming review of the ITS Directive.
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Meeting with Adina-Ioana Vălean (Commissioner)

24 Sept 2020 · Mobility as a service for the European Green Deal

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

1 Sept 2020 · To discuss EU data strategy