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BRIEF PARTNER PROFILE

The DfT works with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK’s businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. The DfT’s responsibilities include providing policy, guidance, and funding to English local authorities to help them run and maintain their road networks, improve passenger and freight travel, and develop new major transport schemes; awarding and managing rail franchises and regulating rail fares; improving English bus services through funding and regulation; working to make roads less congested and polluted by promoting lower carbon transport; and encouraging the use of new technology such as smart ticketing and low carbon vehicles.

PROJECT INVOLVEMENT

DfT’s main contribution is in WP2 where it informs T2.5 the MaaS enabling policy framework and also contributes to T2.2 the MaaS ecosystems requirements. Further, in WP3, it adds to WP3 in T3.3 Financing and revenue allocation models, and leads T3.4 legal and regulatory barriers. DfT’s perspective and expertise on the policy and regulatory issues as a government department adds great value to these WPs. Its unique position as an authority allows better understanding and insights as to how the policy and regulatory enablers could emerge to enable successful MaaS implementation. DfT also supports dissemination and exploitation activities as part of WP9 and WP10, drawing on its large stakeholder base to help reach a large audience and achieve high impact of the project’s results.

KEY PERSONNEL

Ms. Lucy Yu (Female): Lucy is head of MaaS at CCAV and DfT. Her expertise covers new mobility services and business models, as well as disruptive technologies including driverless cars. She has formed part of the management teams of several technology start-ups, and is an early stage investor in the technology sector. She sits on the board of TravelSpirit, HackTrain and Ada, the national college for digital skills.

BRIEF PARTNER PROFILE

Hayfield Sustainable Transport Ltd (HSTL) is a cooperative that is set up as a not for profit, community benefit society.

HSTL was set up in March 2013 and for the past 3 years has been conducting a pilot transport project to develop new transport provision based on a minibus version of a car club.

PROJECT INVOLVEMENT

HSTL’s main contribution is in WP8 where it demonstrates the development of new transport services within the Manchester pilot of the MAAS4EU project (T8.2). It also contributes to WP3 and WP4 as well as the dissemination and exploitation activities (WP9 and WP10).

KEY PERSONNEL

Roland Strube (male): Roland has a degree in chemistry from University College London and a masters degree in combustion science & pollution control from the University of Sheffield. He worked as a combustion engineer before managing a research centre in the University of Sheffield, which involved European ERDF funding. Three years ago he set up and now runs HSTL, which is a community transport organisation that makes minibuses available on a car club basis, filling gaps in local transport provision.

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Aachener Verkehrsverbund GmbH is the public transport authority for the Aachen region. AVV is formed by the municipalities Stadt Aachen, StädteRegion Aachen, Kreis Heinsberg and Kreis Düren. In addition AVV is located in a border region, thus it has common borders with Belgium and the Netherlands. The core tasks of AVV are to plan, organize and to develop local public transport for the mentioned area. Topics in this context are related to tariff, transport planning, customer information, marketing and coordination in the field of cross border public transport.

AVV is very experienced in the field of cross border public transport as well as digitalization in context of public transport. AVV is located in a border region with borders to Belgium and the Netherlands. Therefore coordination in the field of cross border public transport forms an important part of AVV’s responsibilities. Furthermore AVV is an active stakeholder in the field of passenger information systems as well as electronic fare management.

PROJECT INVOLVEMENT

AVV contributes to the MaaS4EU project by delivering a cross border pilot together with partners from Luxembourg (WP8, T8.3). In this context we provide required data on the one hand and to build up cooperation that allows passengers to travel on the corridor between AVV and Luxembourg. The aim is to offer corresponding information and reservation/booking processes from one hand. Building on its expertise, AVV also contributes to the MaaS ecosystem (WP2) and MaaS protype business model (WP3).

KEY PERSONNEL

Mr. Dominik Elsmann (Male): has a background as an economic geographer. He used to work for RWTH Aachen University as a scientific assistant and was the responsible project manager for a European project in the field of public transport. Since May 2015 Dominik Elsmann works for Aachener Verkehrsverbund GmbH. Over there he is responsible for coordination in the field of cross border public transport. Furthermore he works in several European projects dealing with issues of public transport.

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INTRASOFT International (Belgium) is a leading European company in the area of Information Technology and Communication services provision which, at the end of 2012, employed over 200 professionals located in Belgium.

INTRASOFT International (Belgium) was established in 2000 to better serve public and private sector clients throughout Western Europe with a particular focus in European Union bodies and agencies. Since then INTRASOFT International has achieved notable organic growth and consolidated organic revenue in 2012 reached € 17 million (2011: € 15 million). INTRASOFT International (Belgium) has been awarded the following certifications: Quality Management of Products and Services (ISO 9001:2008); ISO/IEC 20000-1:2005 certification that underlines the quality of INTRASOFT’s IT service management systems; ISO/IEC27001:2005 certification that recognises the strength of INTRASOFT’s information security management procedures; CMMI Level 2 (Capability Maturity Model Integration) v1.2 for its Software Development activities; and since October 2012 has been successfully appraised at CMMI Level 3 for its software development projects.

INTRASOFT International (Belgium), due to its geographical proximity to its large customers, in addition to software development, has specialised in offering ‘near-site’ services, including project management of very large and complex IT systems and services, as well as requirements gathering and validation, customer relationship management services, application operational support, and communication services. Moreover, INTRASOFT International (Belgium) offers services in the area of research and innovation policy support, including evaluation, and impact assessment studies which are supported by an established network of external consultants with significant expertise in the area of research and innovation policy formulation and strategy.

Coordination of large collaborative R&D Projects is a capacity well-developed by INTRASOFT International, having managed 19 projects to date, with a total budget of over €105Meuros.

PROJECT INVOLVEMENT

INTRASOFT International (Belgium) is undertaking the project coordination (WP1) and it is also involved in the Dissemination, Communication and Engagement activities (WP9).

KEY PERSONNEL

Mr. Konstantinos Thiveos (Male): is currently the Manager of Research and Innovation Development department at INTRASOFT International. Konstantinos brings more than 15 years of industry experience, acting as Head of Brussels Office, Senior Delivery Manager, and EU Business and Innovation Director, in organizations such as Pouliadis Group, INTRASOFT International and Globo Mobile. Konstantinos has also acted as a consultant in numerous projects and has offered research and innovation related consulting services to various European SMEs and start-ups. He has been also working as a Research and Innovation Coordinator at the Athens University of Economics and Business and has acted as an expert evaluator of proposals for EU and other National Authorities for Scientific Research and Innovation. Konstantinos holds a BSc in Computer Science from Athens University of Economics and Business and a MSc in Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics.

Dr. George Dimitrakopoulos (Male): has received his bachelor degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 and his Ph.D. in 2007, from the National Technical University of Athens, and the University of Piraeus, respectively. Since November 2015 he is a senior consultant and project manager at Intrasoft International S.A. Since 2009 he is also with the Harokopio University of Athens (HUA), department of Informatics and Telematics, where he is now an assistant professor. From 2002 till 2009 he was an adjunct lecturer and senior research engineer at the University of Piraeus, department of Digital Systems. He is the author of about 100 publications in international journals and conferences, whereas he has been involved in numerous internationally funded R&D projects. His research interests include the design and development of safety and emergency management algorithms for vehicular communication, as well as the design and development of strategies for the optimization of wireless networks based on cognitive networking principles.

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TRT Trasporti e Territorio (TRT) is an independent consultancy firm, based in Milano, Brussels and Lecce and specialized in economics, planning and transport modelling. Established in 1992, the Company has earned a solid reputation in supporting public and private actors thanks to its professional and R&D activities in the fields of transport projects and policy assessment. TRT is, indeed, experienced in several and referenced professional services in the following main areas: strategic planning, planning and development of transport policies, research projects, feasibility studies, project assessment, transport demand analysis and forecast, logistics and freight transport, planning and regulating of public transport, energy and environment.

At Italian level, key clients of TRT are: the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, the Treasury, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Bank of Italy, local and regional public administrations, private investors and transport operators as well.

At European and international level, TRT has a twenty-year experience in consulting and research projects for the European Commission’s Directorates (Environment, Transport, Research, Energy, Climate Change, Regional Policies, International Co-operation), and other European Institutions, such as for instance the European Parliament, the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Remarkably, TRT’s work has often been viewed as an element of reference by the EU institutions in designing and developing their policies in the transport domain.

Since 2005, TRT is certified according to UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 and has been compensating CO2 emissions related to its own activity.

TRT’s core skills, and the excellent network of companies and universities the Company work with, make possible to share the expertise and professional experience developed with its international academic and research activities, and further complemented by the experience gained with regard to policy-making processes. This allows assist clients with up-to-date supporting tools according to the international best practices. TRT features a high-qualified and multidisciplinary team, which covers a wide range of skills and competences: transport planners and modellers, transport engineers, and experts in transport economics, social and behavioural aspects of mobility. TRT’s activity addresses multiple transport issues: research projects, policy development and planning, feasibility studies and assessment of infrastructure projects, transport demand analysis and forecasts, planning and regulating of public transport, freight transport and logistics, analysis of the European and international transport policies.

The senior staff of TRT, who holds the large majority of the Company’s shares, is also involved in teaching at the Politecnico di Milano and in several professional training programmes, in addition to the daily consulting activity.

PROJECT INVOLVEMENT

TRT leads WP9, Dissemination and impact management, by leading Task 9.1 related to Dissemination, Clustering and standardisation activities (i.e.). It is also responsible for tor MaaS enabling policy framework (T2.5) in WP2 and the MaaS operators’ business ecosystem and organisational structures (T3.2) in WP3.

KEY PERSONNEL

Mr. Angelo Martino (Male): is a senior expert in transport policy analysis and development and application of models for the analysis of transport demand and transport network, including their interaction with the land use, environment and energy systems. Since 2010, he manages the TRT office in Brussels. He has a long record of experience in project leadership and management in both domestic and international studies, and has served as key expert in research and service projects for the European Commission and international organisations. He has been involved in topics as transport forecasting, policy assessment, impact assessment, transport and land use modelling, sustainable mobility indicators and strategic transport models development at urban, regional and European scale. In the field of policy support, he is involved in DG MOVE projects related to the internalisation of external costs of transport and in the impact assessment of the future development of the Eurovignette Directive. He coordinated policy studies for the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism in relation to different topics: external costs in the transport sector, HGV pricing, impact of high oil prices, sustainable urban mobility, green logistics, integrated ticketing for long distance travel, etc. In 2009 he was member of the DG TREN Focus Group “The Future for Transport”.

Ms. Claudia de Stasio (Female): (degree in Civil Engineering – Transport, MSc in “Sustainable Mobility and Transport “). Since 2001 she has developed a significant experience in transport modelling at regional level working on several feasibility studies for main road transport infrastructures. In 2007 she joined TRT and she has been involved in transport modelling at European level, working in Research Projects funded by European Commission. Among her experiences in European projects, she was the manager of the TRT working group in the ETISplus project where TRT was responsible for the production of the passenger database. She also managed the TRT team in COMPASS where solutions to improve availability of travel behaviour data and explored opportunities for harmonisation of the data collected were investigated.

Mr. Simone Bosetti (Male): (degree in Civil Engineering – Transport) has more than 15 years of experience in transport planning and traffic engineering. He collaborated in the drafting of several transport and mobility plans at international, national and local level. He gained expertise in the areas of road safety and traffic, cycle and pedestrian mobility, sustainable mobility and parking, as well as in the evaluation and impact assessment of transport measures and projects. In his professional experience he also dealt with the study of traffic impact of new settlements and urban development projects, with the support of micro-simulation dynamic modelling. Since 2008, he has been involved in CIVITAS initiative. He participated to the CIVITAS Pointer support action, dealing with the monitoring, cross-site evaluation and policy recommendations of the third CIVITAS programme (CIVITAS PLUS, 2008-2012). Currently is participating to the CIVITAS WIKI support action (CIVITAS Plus II, 2012-2016), whose main objective is fostering knowledge transfer, dissemination of best practices and debate about innovative measures for sustainable urban mobility based on the CIVITAS experience. He has a long record of experience in project leadership and management in both domestic and international studies, and has served as key expert in service projects for the European Commission and other international organisations.

Dr. Marco Brambilla (Male): (PhD in Public Economics) has 10 years of experience and he is senior expert of civil engineering, economics and planning of the transport sector. In 2010 he joined TRT as consultant where he works as transport engineer and economist. Expertise and skills are focused on the economic appraisal of transport infrastructures (cost-benefit analysis methodology), regulation of infrastructures and services, urban economics (with equity issues) and transport safety. Dr. Marco Brambilla has a good knowledge of multidisciplinary projects in Italian and European working groups and he has been working in a number of projects funded by European Commission. As transport economist, he contributed to the preparation of Guidelines on the methodology of project evaluation and appraisal and he has been appointed as trainer of sessions on transport projects appraisal. Dr. Marco Brambilla was also appointed lecturer at Politecnico of Milan, where he taught transport economics and planning.

Mr. Tito Stefanelli (Male): (degree in Urban and Environmental Planning, MSc in “Sustainable Mobility and Transport “) has over 10 years of experience in transport planning and mobility. He is co-founder of Trafficeye Srl, a highly specialised company in traffic and mobility surveys. In 2010 he joined 2010 TRT. Specialized in transport planning, he combines mobility aspects with urban planning issues. He contributed in the drafting of urban traffic and mobility plans both at local and international level. He took part and coordinated several mobility studies in urban areas also implementing dynamic micro-simulation models both locally and urban areas. He organised several urban and mobility surveys. He took part and coordinated traffic impact studies of the largest retail centres in the north-west of Italy (McArthurGlenn of Novi Ligure, VicoLungo Outlets, etc.). He joined TRT in 2010 and he is now involved in several European research projects aimed at improving sustainability of transport activities and policies.