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Mobility & Urban Logistics

Public Transit & MaaS

Mass transit, shared mobility, and integrated journey planning.

Public and shared mobility carries most urban trips in well-functioning European cities — and increasingly, the ticket, journey planner, and fare cap live in one app. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) brings public transit operators, car-sharing, bike-sharing and ride-hail under a unified surface, while open-data standards like NeTEx and SIRI keep operators interoperable across borders.

Leading deployments include Whim (Helsinki), Jelbi (Berlin), Mobilleo and the MaaS Alliance reference deployments across continental Europe. EU programmes such as CIVITAS, Horizon Europe MOVE21 and EIT Urban Mobility fund replication, while regulatory work — including the Multimodal Digital Mobility Services regulation — tries to keep the interface fair to public operators.

This leaf gathers resources on transit network design, shared-fleet operations, intermodal ticketing, demand-responsive transport, and the platform economics of MaaS — practical material for transit authorities, mobility startups, and city mobility teams.

Key Aspects

Mass transit systems

Bus, tram, metro, light rail and BRT networks — the high-capacity backbone of urban mobility.

MaaS platforms

Single-app journey planning, ticketing and fare-capping across multiple transport operators.

Shared mobility

Bike-share, scooter-share, car-share and ride-hail as complementary modes that extend transit reach.

Demand-responsive transport

On-demand minibuses, paratransit and flexible-route services for low-density areas and accessibility needs.


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