MaaS knowledge

NOMAD MaaS Roaming Workshop Glossary

Clearing If a multimodal journey is paid as a total to the MaaS agent, clearing defines the service to ensure that each mobility service provider gets the correct payment for their contribution to the combined journey. 
MaaS Mobility as a Service. 
MaaS agent A digital serviceprovider delivering multimodal journey planning, booking, payment and navigation to end users. The MaaS agent is ideally a one stop shopping service for combining ground and sea based mobility services into attractive multimodal journeys from door to door. 
MaaS roaming NOMAD (Nordic Open Mobility and Digitalization) is a research and innovation project funded by Nordic Innovation and coordinated by ITS Norway that aims to develop an open, pan Nordic mobility system for MaaS solutions. The project explores the concept of roaming as a means to inspire to service agreements between MaaS operators that will benefit individual travelers and organizations, and that will support parallel developments in open data standards within the Nordic region.  
MDMS Multimodal Digital Mobility Services. An EU regulation expected to be adopted in 2023. Planning and buying tickets for journeys that combine different modes of transport can be cumbersome for travellers in the EU. To compare different options, many use digital services such as route planners and ticket vendors. This initiative addresses challenges for these services and implements Action 37 of the sustainable and smart mobility strategy. It aims to better integrate public transport and rail services to achieve seamless multimodal passenger transport, delivering the EU Green Deal. 
MMTIS Multimodal Travel Information Services. EU regulation EU 2017/1926 on open mobility data for scheduled and on demand modes of mobility 
Mobility Service Provider A mobility serviceprovider delivers mobility services for sale to end users. It can be public transport but also private mobility actors. Modes can be scheduled or available on demand. 
Multimodal travel Multimodal travel uses different modes of transport to produce a seamless door-to-door travel experience. 
NAP National Access Point. An integral part of the MMTIS regulation. Each nation shall operate a NAP and ensure that open mobility data herein is complete and at a high-quality level. 
NeTEx NeTEx is a CEN Technical Standard for exchanging Public Transport schedules and related data 
NOMAD NOMAD (Nordic Open Mobility and Digitalization) is a research and innovation project funded by Nordic Innovation and coordinated by ITS Norway that aims to develop an open, pan Nordic mobility system for MaaS solutions. The project explores the concept of roaming as a means to inspire to service agreements between MaaS operators that will benefit individual travelers and organizations, and that will support parallel developments in open data standards within the Nordic region. 
Nordic Innovation Nordic Innovation is an organization under the Nordic Council of Ministers. It aims to make the Nordics a pioneering region for sustainable growth by promoting entrepreneurship, innovation and competitiveness in Nordic businesses. Nordic Innovation support the Nordic prime ministers’ vision that the Nordic region will become the most sustainable and integrated region in the world in 2030.  
ODIN  The ODIN project aims to accelerate and coordinate the work necessary to create a unified market within the mobility sector in the Nordics.  The work started as a project coordinated by RISE ICT Viktoria (Research Institutes of Sweden) funded by the Swedish Transport Administration and the Swedish Innovation Agency. Current members include Danish Traffic-, Housing- and Construction Agency, Entur, HSL, LMJ, Norwegian Railway Directorate, Rejseplanen, Samtrafiken, SFMCon, Swedish Transport Admininstration, Traficom and Fintraffic. 
PTA Public Transport Administrator/Authority 
PTO Public Transport Operator 
SIRI SIRI is a standard for exchange information between servers containing real-time public transport vehicle or journey time data. 

NOMAD Nordic MaaS Fact Sheet

Issue Denmark Norway Sweden  Finland  Iceland  
National Access Point (NAP) 
Organisation Trafikstyrelsen  Statens vegvesen, Jernbanedirektoratet, Entur Trafikverket  NAP service is provided by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom. Vegagerðin (Road A.)  
NAP Status Running. du.vd.dk Currently NeTEx data for public transport is available.  Next steps: Other Scheduled modes DRT modes Running, Entur responsible for MMTIS (PT, mobility, shared, private transport). www.transportportal.no, developer.entur.org  Förenklad biljettstruktur avseende regelverk och villkor   Förenklade köp av biljetter Nationella biljettsamarbeten, Återförsäljning för att nå nya kunder och sammanhang. Running. Fintraffic Ltd is responsible for the service on behalf of Traficom.   All modes of transport are included. You can find all services with categorized searching tool. Non-exiciting. 
Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) operations 
Organisations, public (platform/app) Rejsekort/Rejseplanen (National PT)     Entur (National PT – Entur app)  Regional PTAs: Ruter, Kolumbus, Skyss, ATB (all own apps) Regional PTAs: Nobina – Travis app Samtrafiken, Västrafiken, Skånetrafiken, SL Regional PTAs: HSL (Helsinki) City of Tampere, Turku etc.  The service catalogue includes a total of 3354 services, the production of which involves a total of 5652 companies or organisations. The most of those companies are   Regional PTAs: Strætó (Bus – Reykjavik capital area) 
Organisations, private  N/A N/A N/A MaaS Global –Whim  N/A 
Third party ticket sale  No No No. Yes, but not through NAP No 
PT open travel data Yes via NAP and through Rejseplanen LAB Route info freely available, but not travel demand data ? Yes, through Digitransit, but you need to register.  There are also other sources and more detailed possibilities like ITS Factory Developer Wiki. Strætó gives third parties access to route system data 
Public transport (PT) Organisation & Private mobility actors 
Main actors: PTOs, private bus/ coach, rail, ferry companies (examples):  Stena DK-S, Mols Line  Color Line, DFDS, Scandlines, Fjordline Color Line, DFDS, Fjord Line, VY, Bus4you, NorWay B.e., GoAhead (Rail)     SkandiLines, Viking lines PT: Matkahuolto, Members of Finnish Bus and Coach Association (158 companies) Ferry companies: Viking Line, Tallink Silja, Finnlines, Eckerö Lines  
Regional / national organisation Regional on municipal or county level: bus, tram National: Rail (DSB), Trafikstyrelsen (Arriva-Rail), Metro Regional on municipal or county level: bus, tram/metro National: Rail (SJ) Regional on municipal or county level: bus, tram/metro National: Rail (VY,SJ++ Regional on municipal or county level: bus, tram/metro National: Rail (VR) National: Matkahuolto Many of those members of Finnish Bus and Coach Association are operating at national level. Regional on municipal level National: Rail N/A 
Private mobility (examples): car/ride/ bike/scooter share  KINTO, Green Mobility, Letsgo, Drivr, Donkey, Taxa, ShareNow, Flixbus, Kombardoexpressen, VOI, LIME, TIER, BOLT, Nabogo, Gomore, Ta-med  Hyre, GetAround, Bilkollektivet, Otto, MoveAbout,Ryde,Lime  Freeway S, Lynk & CO MaaS Global, CGI, PayiQ (ticketing), Matkahuolto, eScooter service providers, 24 Rent Ltd, Omago Ltd. PerilleMobilityServices Hopp, Zolo 

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  • In April 2023, NOMAD arranged a workshop in Copenhagen for key people with interest, insight and knowledge about MaaS in the Nordics. Just prior to the workshop an invitation was sent to potential workshop participants to complete an online survey probing their organisation’s familiarity with, and current interest and engagement with MaaS development in the Nordics. Among the 68 respondents who completed the survey, 18 later participated in the workshop. The results from the survey can be seen here: NOMAD Pre-workshop online survey. The results from the survey sent after the workshop can be seen here: NOMAD Post-workshop online survey.

Projects about MaaS and mobility data