First MOTIS Open Source Release available !
Since 22nd of April, 2020 the first Open Source release of the multi-criterial timetable information system MOTIS (Multi Objective Travel Information System V0.1) is now available.
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A plan against traffic breakdown
The magazine of the Heinrich Böll foundation published an interview with Sampo Hietanen in its March 2019 edition. Sampo Hietanen is well known to all those who are interested in MaaS (Mobility as a Service) and other new forms of mobility.
…Finland makes “Mobility as a Service” a reality
"Mobility as a Service" or MaaS is a buzzword that has been actualised for the first time as a usable instrument in Finland. Piotr Heller published an article in Deutschlandfunk in September 2018 that clearly demonstrates what this service is all about.
…Is ridesharing a solution for rural areas?
Martin Randelhoff deals with a topic in the magazine "Zukunft Mobilität" (Future Mobility) which has the potential of becoming increasingly important in the future. The topic is about the problem of how ridesharing systems can become a mobility solution in rural areas, supplementing public transport.
…The Germans will be sitting in their cars for a long time
The Germans and their cars - a great love story. Christoph Reimann interviewed the futurologist Stephan Rammler in Deutschlandfunk (August 2017).
…Is this an eventual step towards intermodal travel?
Railway magazine "Zughalt" published in a report 2018.06.29 that BMVI (German ministery for traffic and IT) will sponsor the further development of the timetable information system EFA of the Munich traffic association (MVV).
…More mobility with Open Data
Süddeutschen Zeitung of 25.12.2017 published an interesting article concerning the benefit of Open Data which has not been recognized by the Public Administration for a long time.
…The battle heats up over local traffic
According to an article in the German magazine Capital 26th of February 2018 there is a struggle taking place over who has the right to define what “local transport” means and what local transport should look like in the future. This is a struggle that is taking place between Deutsche Bahn, local public transport authorities and the car producers. Ridesharing and carsharing, for instance, are now of interest to transport companies who are involved in providing these and other local public transport services.
…A short-distance transport app for everything
The dream of a common app for the entire short-distance transport in the Federal Republic is told in a contribution of Radio in October 2016. So far it was not possible to develop such an app. Instead, every transport association has an own app wich, however, does not contain trip opportunities across the borders of its own organization.
…Merkel: Open Data Law in 2017 for the "raw material of the future"
Still at the end of 2016 the Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to publish key factors for an Open Data Law. These key factors should be converted to a legal text and passed to the Bundestag (German parliament) in the coming year - an ambitioned goal as Open Knowledge Foundation Germany recently published in a blog. The law is supposed to promote the opening of the federal administration.
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