MaaS Alliance joins Global New Mobility Coalition

MaaS Alliance has joined The Global New Mobility Coalition (GNMC), a community of more than 100 institutions which aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 95%. The GNMC also seeks to improve transport efficiency by 70% and reduce mobility costs by 40%. As part of the deal, MaaS Alliance is to share knowledge with the GNMC alongside other organisations such as C40, Polis and ITF. MaaS Alliance is a non-profit organisation which seeks to establish a common approach to Mobility as a Service. It entered i
November 25, 2019 Read time: 1 min

8356 MaaS Alliance has joined The Global New Mobility Coalition (GNMC), a community of more than 100 institutions which aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 95%.

The GNMC also seeks to improve transport efficiency by 70% and reduce mobility costs by 40%.

As part of the deal, MaaS Alliance is to share knowledge with the GNMC alongside other organisations such as C40, Polis and ITF.

MaaS Alliance is a non-profit organisation which seeks to establish a common approach to Mobility as a Service. It entered into an %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 link-external agreement false https://www.itsinternational.com/sections/transmart/news/travelspirit-and-maas-alliance-to-accelerate-mobility-as-a-service-deployment/ false false%> last year with 8832 TravelSpirit to share knowledge and best practices to enable the development of open source technologies.

The GNMC was officially launched as part of the UN Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York City.

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