MaaS4EU kick off meeting
32 participants, representing the 17 MaaS4Eu consortium partners, got together on the 8th and 9th of June for a fruitful kick off meeting. The meeting was organized by the Project Coordinator, Intrasoft International, and took place at their premises at Paiania, Athens.
The main goal of the MaaS4EU project (End-to-End Approach for Mobility-as-a-Service tools, business models, enabling framework and evidence for European seamless mobility), is to provide quantifiable evidence, frameworks and tools, to remove the barriers and enable a cooperative and interconnected EU single transport market for the MaaS concept, by addressing challenges at 4 levels:
(1) Business,
(2) End-users,
(3) Technology,
(4) Policy.
This vision will be achieved by defining sustainable business models that support the cooperation across transport stakeholders, understanding user needs and choices, implementing the required technological infrastructure (a MaaS mobility hub) and identifying the enabling policy and regulatory frameworks. The project will provide quantifiable evidence about MaaS costs and benefits in 3 real-life, complementary pilot cases, demonstrating the concept in urban, intercity and cross-border trips at three EU areas (UK, LUX-DE, HU)
MaaS is a data-driven, user-centered paradigm. Inlecom as leader of WP5 - Enterprise Data Framework, presented the API of API's approach and infrastructure implemented in the EuTravel project, that will be extended in order to deal with interoperabillity challenges in the urban mobilitity conext and will underpin the operation of the MaaS4EU platform.
During the two-days sessions, MaaS4EU consortium partners were able to establish the common project vision, discuss the approach, management structure, critical milestones and dependencies, in order to set the 'way of working together', and agree on the action plan for the next months.
MaaS4EU has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement No 723176.
Inlecom participates in new H2020 research project MaaS4EU
MaaS is a user-centric, intelligent mobility distribution model, in which users’ needs are met via a single platform and are offered by a service provider, the mobility operator. The project will provide quantifiable evidence about MaaS costs and benefits in 3 real-life, complementary pilot cases, demonstrating the concept in urban, intercity and cross-border trips at 3 EU areas (UK, LUX-DE, HU).
The consortium consists of 17 partners from 9 countries, among them leading industries, renowned research institutions, transport authorities and operators, consultants and one ministry of transport.
Exploring business opportunities in China
INLECOM invited to explore business development opportunities in China. Yash Chadha, INLECOM’s Director of International Projects has spent 2 weeks in China participating with regional authorities, innovation parks and private companies seeking to explore innovative solutions in the Chinese market, and improved trading opportunities to and from Europe.
INLECOM is developing new products based on outputs from its research programmes and the Chinese collaboration brings new opportunities and interesting challenges. Past and current FP7 and H2020 projects covering single and multimodal collaboration ideas were presented as well as general business discussions.
To complete the trading opportunities, Yash Chadha also joined other invited European companies in joint discussions with Chinese counterparts, and extended discussions and exchanges in ideas to cover areas such smart cities, free trade zones and financial instruments within supply chain.
If you would like to collaborate with Inlecom in Europe or China, contact Yash Chadha, yash@inlecom.com
1st ELP Forum Results
The first ELP Forum took place at Brussels, on the 15th of November 2016, organized by the European Logistics Platform (ELP), hosted at the Microsoft center. More than 100 EU policymakers and industry stakeholders came together to discuss the future of logistics. Mrs. Ioanna Fergadioti from Inlecom Systems Ltd, attended the meeting on behalf of the SELIS project Coordinator.
Mrs. Violeta Bulc, the European Commissioner for Mobility and Transport, gave the keynote speech, pointing out the remarkable dynamics and changes unfolding in Europe today, especially in the area of logistics and digitalisation of transport.
A complete view of the Forum’s works and results can be found in the ELP Press Release.
The European Logistics Platform consists of more than twenty industry stakeholders representing a wide variety of actors involved in logistics and supply chains across Europe.
Conference: The Future of Multimodal Travel in Europe
The EUTRAVEL Conference headlined “The Future of Multimodal Travel in Europe” took place in Barcelona on the 6th of October, presenting evidence that there are plenty of intriguing and innovative developments in the travel and mobility sector across Europe.
Here’s a few stats:
- 24 speakers from 11 European countries;
- 59 companies and organisations represented, including Transport Operators, Travel Service Providers, Technology Providers, Start-ups, Research Institutes and Authorities;
- 87 delegates;
and countless innovative ideas shared!
The event focused on the advancements and challenges towards seamless door-to-door travelling and was organised in three topics:
- Travel Technology and Business Driven Innovations,
- Research Driven Innovations, with the presentation of 10 related EU funded projects,
- Trends and Challenges, Mobility as a Service, Added Value Services for Travellers.
Background
The conference was organised by Inlecom Systems Ltd - EUTRAVEL Project Coordinator - and FGC. The EUTRAVEL project (Optimodal European Travel Ecosystem) envisions the realisation of a sustainable and open single European market for multimodal travel services, by integrating many transport and travel services and making them available through a single API of APIs. Project partners include Amadeus, BMT Group, Brittany Ferries, Business-E, CLMS UK Ltd, EBOS Technologies, FGC, Hill Dickinson LLP, NCSR Demokritos, Pharos Datacom, SilverRail, STI Innsbruck, Travelport, Trenitalia, VLTN.
EUTRAVEL has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement No 636148.