MaaS Alliance adds JR East as member

The MaaS Alliance, a public-private partnership aiming to roll out Mobility as a Service (MaaS), has welcomed Japanese railway company JR East as its newest member. JR East's president Yuji Fukasawa says the company is developing a mobility linkage platform to help passengers collect information, purchase services and pay fares and shorten travel times. Yuichiro Tokunaga, JR East’s director general in charge of MaaS, says the membership will allow the company to explore the potential of MaaS. “We moreo
November 18, 2019 Read time: 1 min

The MaaS Alliance, a public-private partnership aiming to roll out Mobility as a Service (MaaS), has welcomed Japanese railway company JR East as its newest member.

JR East's president Yuji Fukasawa says the company is developing a mobility linkage platform to help passengers collect information, purchase services and pay fares and shorten travel times.

Yuichiro Tokunaga, JR East’s director general in charge of MaaS, says the membership will allow the company to explore the potential of MaaS.

“We moreover hope to share our concepts of MaaS with the alliance members to suggest a Japanese MaaS framework other than those in European countries,” Tokunaga adds.

Additionally, the company has established a MaaS strategy and design department and has been planning related strategies since April 2019.

Related Content

  • Florida's free flow tolling eases congestion, improves safety
    July 24, 2012
    A decade since Florida's Turnpike Enterprise first deployed electronic toll collection, the organisation's Director of Toll Operations Rick Nelson and Tom S. Knuckey of PBS&J look at progress. A decade on from the deployment of Florida's Turnpike Enterprise's state-wide SunPass pre-paid Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) programme, transponder sales have ballooned from 5,000 to more than 4,000,000. Over 70 per cent of the state's turnpike drivers participate in the system and transponder sales continue to gro
    Read More
  • €10.9m grant kick-starts German AV project
    April 15, 2021
    Government-backed Kelride seeks to integrate autonomous vehicles into public transport
    Read More
  • 2019 ‘won’t be the year of blockchain’, says Fujitsu
    February 6, 2019
    Blockchain technology will not break through into the mainstream of the British transportation sector during 2019, according to Fujitsu. Blockchain has been touted as the solution to a number of transportation issues, but Chris Patton from Fujitsu’s EMEIA transport team urges caution. While acknowledging that the technology holds ‘exciting’ operational and commercial potential for the public transport sector, he says: “The key word there, though, is potential. While it is undeniable blockchain will ma
    Read More
  • Pittsburgh brings MaaS to low-income users
    July 30, 2021
    Users can access service at 50 new mobility hubs 
    Read More

Highlighted Content