The Municipality of Timișoara partners up with Potugal (Aveiro, Coimbra), Italy (Rome, Genoa), Romania (Bucharest), Germany (Thuringen), Sweden (Stockholm), Finland (Tampere) and Great Britain (Edinburgh) for the implementation of the project PriMaaS - Prioritizing low carbon mobility services for improving accessibility of citizens.
The Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a recent concept whose main objective is to change the way people travel and pay for mobility services. The provision of transport services is one of the key pillars of strategic importance for regional authorities. Therefore, regional policy instruments can play a valuable role in supporting the introduction of MaaS and simultaneously ensuring these new platforms will contribute to low carbon transport policy-goals, social inclusion and increased levels of accessibility.
The main vision of PriMaaS is to promote the integration of traditional collective transport modes with personal and innovative ones by creating equitable mobility services truly focused on citizens' needs.
The project’s objective is to create a knowledge hub to support regions fostering the MaaS concept ensuring that: mobility solutions are focused on citizens' needs and low carbon mobility solutions are good options from the citizen’s perspective in terms of comfort and price.
Policy improvements impacts:
- Increasing confidence and promoting collaboration between established and incoming players.
- Reshaping governments roles and interactions.
- Award new projects based on open digital platforms.
- Fostering intermodality and interoperability.
- Delineating multiscale institutional arrangements.
- Tailoring users’ needs acceptance and willingness to pay for Low Carbon MaaS.
PriMaaS will have as a main result the creation of new objectives related to the implementation of integrated mobility platforms for low carbon emissions in accordance with the policies of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan for the Timisoara Growth Pole.
