MaaS

2021 - 2025 - Mobility Standards & Models for MaaS

Open Standards & MaaS: Building the Digital Infrastructure for Mobility

Since 2021, I’ve been leading a series of initiatives at La Fabrique des Mobilités to standardize the data, services, and business models that support digital and service-based mobility (Mobility-as-a-Service – MaaS) in France. The mission: to provide cities, operators, and industry players with a shared, open, and interoperable foundation to support both ecological transition and a better user experience.

Over the past four years, these efforts have led to the emergence of a national roadmap, a collaborative community, technical benchmarks, and barometers now used by public agencies and local authorities.

Context & Objectives

  • Making MaaS a public good: Proposing a framework of open standards to prevent vendor lock-in and ensure data sovereignty.
  • Aligning national strategy (France Nation Verte’s “Digital & Data” roadmap) with local needs.
  • Empowering local authorities to digitize mobility benefits and tickets, and measure the effectiveness of their mobility policies.
  • Informing decision-makers — public and private — about sustainable business models through working groups and dedicated research.

Work Highlights: Timeline

Year Key Milestones & Deliverables
2021 • Launched the MaaS Standards Community: initial benchmarking and landscape analysis
• Published a field report on the French MaaS ecosystem
2022 • Led and contributed to two open standard groups: CMS (Compte Mobilité Standardisé) and OCSS (Open Carpooling Service Specification)
• Released the 2022 Mobility Standards Barometer
• Facilitated the MaaS Business Models Working Group for France Mobilités
2023 • Led a data working group on ecological transition and planning (with SGPE & DGITM)
2024 • Published an update of the MaaS Standards Barometer
• Delivered a study on digital ticket distribution
• Authored a position paper for the “Digital & Data” ecological roadmap
2025 • Drafted specifications for accessible real-time passenger information
• Hosted a webinar series on digital standards, their applications, and public strategy
• Launched a national knowledge hub on mobility standards

My Role & Contributions

  • Project Lead: strategic direction, budgeting (~€450k total), and reporting to ADEME and DGITM.
  • Community Facilitator: led over 60 workshops and webinars, engaged 120+ organizations (public transport authorities, operators, industry, OSS projects).
  • Lead Author: barometers, benchmark reports, ecosystem analysis, policy memos for the France Nation Verte initiative.
  • Product Stewardship: managed GitHub backlogs (fabmob/CMS, fabmob/standard-covoiturage), reviewed pull requests, ensured functional fit.
  • Advocacy: regular speaker on open data and open APIs in mobility and MaaS environments.

Key Contributors

  • Julie Braka – coordination, documentation, and communications.
  • Alex Bourreau – technical lead on open source, GitHub repository maintenance.

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