MaaS Alliance has recently published a briefing document for legislative and financial measures supporting the digital and green transformation of the mobility sector during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the pandemic crisis is something that is significantly affecting us all, its consequences have also included some positive transformations, such as an accelerated increase in cycling and a rapid take-off of teleworking. MaaS Alliance states that these new habits might bring a long-lasting impact on mobility patterns. In this context, MaaS Alliance invites public administrations, organisations and institutions to launch targeted legislative and financial measures supporting the digital and green transformation of the mobility sector, benefiting cities, people and the environment.
It was suggested that the availability and provision of multimodal integrated mobility services, as well as the cooperation between public and private sectors, need to be enhanced. In order to do this, MaaS Alliance had highlighted a list of measures to be considered by Governments around the world. The suggested measures were selected based on their potential to be highly impactful, neutral to changes with regards to the technology roadmaps and universally applicable to different environments and administrative systems. The suggested measures are structured as follows:
- Incentive schemes for greener behaviour and optimised mobility mix
- Investments in trust and creation of an open MaaS ecosystem
- Investments to support interoperability and integration readiness of public transport to MaaS
- Support to active and micromobility schemes in cities and their integration to multimodal systems.