Finnish public transport authorities’ experiences on regulation enabling Mobility as a Service
SUMP conference in Groningen 17.6.2019
Minna Soininen
Director, Finnish Public Transport Association
80 % of the of PT trips in Finland
Finnish Public Transport Association has 13 members
HSL 387,1
Turku 26,6
Tampere 40,3
Oulu 9,1Jyväskylä 7,3
Lahti 7,4Kuopio 6,8
Joensuu 2,3Lappeenranta 1,8 Pori 1,8Hämeenlinna 1,5
Salo 0,3 Meri-Lappi 0,2
492million trips
Best regulation for developing public transport in the cityregions
• Integrated services withreasonable price and interoperable ticketing for citizens of a commuting area.
• Decisions taken close to thecitizens (subsidiarity principle)
• Gives tools to affect quality, accessibility and environmeltal impact.
Public service obligation. PSO.
REGULATION (EC) No 1370/2007 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 October 2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and by road
Amazing growth of ridership in reorganized public transport 2015-2016 and 2016-2017!
City/region 2015-2016 2016-2017
Tampere 6,6 % 7,8 %
Turku 5,6 % 5,0 %
Oulu 14 % 9,3 %
Kuopio 14 % 9,1 %
Jyväskylä 9 % 6,7 %
Joensuu 5 % 6,7%
Lahti 6 % 3 %
Lappeenranta 5 % 9,8 %
Economy policy background of the finnish transport regulation
• Building a digital growth environment, enabling digital businesses
• National market as a testing ground for new service models and progress to international market
• “The transport sector growth programme will promote achievement of the Government Programme’s goals for building a growth environment for digital business and creating new businesses and jobs. The growth programme’s emphasis is on developing business-driven ecosystems and customer-oriented services.”
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Essential information
Promoting Interoperabilityof ticketing and payment
systems
Interoperability,single ticket API
On behalf purchasing
Park-and-ride faciilties
19.4.20177.9.2017*
19.4.2017
19.4.2017
21.3.2018
15.2.2019
Law approved
*Decree approved
Coming into force
1.1.2018
1.1.2018
1.1.2018
1.1.2019
Guidelines
NAP ready for testing 11/2018
Guidelines for contracts 12/2018, memo on legal issues
Guidelines for contracts19.12.2018
https://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2017/en20170320_20180731.pdf pages 61-64
1.3.2019
PTA’s contractswith the transport operators Op 1 Op 2 Op 3 Op 4 Op 5 Op 6 Op 7
Reloading/topping up of
travel cards on kiosks or shops
Single tickets and reloading of travel cards
with cash onboard
Topup of montlyticket, reloading
value on internetshop
Your ownservice point
Ticketmachine
Mobile ticket with
manypaymentoptions
MaaS op 1 MaaS op 2 MaaS op 3 MaaS op 4 Mob op 5 Mob op 6
Sales channel strategydecisions and contracts of the PTA
Obligation to provide accessto the sales interface
Co-operation
saleschannel 1 with PTA2 and OP8
Report of the Committee:”you cannot set any conditions on the business model, services or applications of the MaaS operator”.
Main system Mobile tickets APIs Within PTA/city system
HSL Travel card SingleMonthly
Single Monthly
Bus, tram, train, ferry, metro, citybike
Turku ID-based SingleMontly
SingleMonthly
Bus, boat, fölix, citybike
Tampere Travel card Single Single (Monthly)
Bus, (tram 2021)
Jyväskylä Travel card Single Single(Monthly)
Bus
Oulu Travel card Single Single Bus, citybike (summer 2019)
Kuopio Travel card Single Single Bus, electric citybike (since May 2019)
Lahti Travel card Single Single Bus
Joensuu Travel card Single Single Bus, citybike
Next step contactless and towards ID based ticketing
Beware of these difficulties• Legal uncertainties and legal complaints to supervising agencies
• What is an open API?
• Generally applied technologies?
• Fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms?
• Uncertainty due to unrealistic schedules of the requirements.
• Sales market questions
• Complaints of discriminatory treatment own sales channels vs. MaaS
• Pricing power?
• Local tools for sustainable transport
• Regulation for opening API’s focuses on business development opportunities
• Abolition of possibility to govern MaaS?You can not set any conditions on the business model, services or applications of the MaaS operator.
Common understanding of technological readiness and good codes of conductfor 3rd party sales.
In-depth analysis of of inconsistencies regarding existing data and services. Action plan to harmonise data and services. *
Servitization. Automation. Business models changing. Governance of sustainable transport system on regional, national and EU level.
* https://nordicopenmobilitydata.eu/
More at EU-level
28 nations implementthe same in 28 different
ways?
National and EU-legislation in terms of entering the mobility market.
Minna Soininen, Director, +358504344514, minna.soininen(at)pllry.fi Finnish Public Transport Association, www.paikallisliikenneliitto.fi
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