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iMove Project in Europe

Following recent mega-trends in the mobile and sharing

economy, and thanks to the latest ITS developments,
Mobility as a Service schemes are seen as the way

citizens will use to move themselves and their goods
in the future. Jaspal Singh, Head, UITP India writes on

iMove project, funded by the European Commission
within the H2020 framework, that aims to accelerate the

deployment and unlock the scalability of MaaS schemes
in Europe

lthough some “Mobility
as a Service” (MaaS)
initiatives have been
piloted across Europe,
Aso far most of them had
problems reaching a significant scale
and stable business operation, and there
is still a lack of a solid MaaS experience
replicable at the EU level. Achieving the
appropriate balance between public and
private components in the combined
mobility scheme is a major issue, with
the need of compromising between
different business roles, objectives and
attitudes within the same ecosystem.
The adoption of viable policies for
information and service sharing is
also a barrier to overcome. Handling
business-sensitive data, commercially
exploitable user-related information
and privacy aspects present at the same
time opportunities and threats for the
MaaS success.

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