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EU Delegated Regulation 2017/1926 governs “the accuracy and cross-border availability of EU-wide multimodal travel information services for ITS users” (ITS: Intelligent Transport Systems). Member States must implement and provide access points and reports from 1 January 2020. The key points are summarised briefly below.

Since 22nd of April, 2020 the first Open Source release of the multi-criterial timetable information system MOTIS (Multi Objective Travel Information System V0.1) is now available.

The magazine of the Heinrich Böll foundation published an interview with Sampo Hietanen in its March 2019 edition. Sampo Hietanen is well known to all those who are interested in MaaS (Mobility as a Service) and other new forms of mobility. 

"Mobility as a Service" or MaaS is a buzzword that has been actualised for the first time as a usable instrument in Finland. Piotr Heller published an article in Deutschlandfunk in September 2018 that clearly demonstrates what this service is all about.   

Martin Randelhoff deals with a topic in the magazine "Zukunft Mobilität" (Future Mobility) which has the potential of becoming increasingly important in the future. The topic is about the problem of how ridesharing systems can become a mobility solution in rural areas, supplementing public transport.

The Germans and their cars - a great love story. Christoph Reimann interviewed the futurologist Stephan Rammler in Deutschlandfunk (August 2017).

Railway magazine "Zughalt" published in a report 2018.06.29 that BMVI (German ministery for traffic and IT) will sponsor the further development of the timetable information system EFA of the Munich traffic association (MVV).  

Süddeutschen Zeitung of 25.12.2017 published an interesting article concerning the benefit of Open Data which has not been recognized by the Public Administration for a long time.