MaaS Market London: Ertico’s Jacob Bangsgaard joins speaker line-up

More leading ITS innovators have been confirmed as speakers at ITS International’s fourth MaaS Market conference in London, UK, on March 20-21, 2019. Among them is Jacob Bangsgaard, CEO of European association Ertico and president of the MaaS Alliance, the public-private partnership working to create the foundations for a common European approach to Mobility as a Service (MaaS). From the UK, Paul Campion, CEO of Transport Systems Catapult and Chris Lane, head of smart travel from Transport for West Midlan
December 20, 2018 Read time: 2 mins
More leading ITS innovators have been confirmed as speakers at ITS International’s fourth 8545 MaaS Market conference in London, UK, on March 20-21, 2019.


Among them is Jacob Bangsgaard, CEO of European association 374 Ertico and president of the MaaS Alliance, the public-private partnership working to create the foundations for a common European approach to Mobility as a Service (MaaS).

From the UK, Paul Campion, CEO of Transport Systems Catapult and Chris Lane, head of smart travel from Transport for West Midlands, will also be speaking at the conference.

They join a programme that includes Gary C Thomas, president and executive director of Dallas Area Rapid Transit in the US and Michael Hurwitz, head of innovation for Transport for London.

The conference will debate the latest developments in transport provision and MaaS projects in the UK, Europe and the USA.

The 2019 programme will cover themes such as the role of vertical transport providers and explore whether MaaS risks destroying public transport as we know it. There will also be cutting-edge reports from the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and the US on putting MaaS into practice.

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