A sizeable slice of Beate’s 2024 was devoted to this: the first comprehensive long-form overview of Mobility as a Service and an incredibly useful reference for anyone working in the sector, academic researchers, consultants or policy makers. .

Co-written with James Gleave, founder of Mobility Lab, it covers the different variation of MaaS, its evolutionary history, its applications in different settings, and also offers some answers to questions like “What is the business model for MaaS?”. Along the way there are many informative case studies from different implementations of MaaS across the world.

MaaS is still poorly understood, a situation which is not helped with contested definitions and varying levels of implementation according to the regulatory environment in different countries. Since it was initially conceptualised, its development has been strewn with unsuccessful startups and apps that failed to offer the required functionality. But the aim for MaaS to provide a full suite of transport options in a single platform is still a realistic goal - arguably much more so now that operators are increasingly being shepherded by transport authorities towards openness with timetabling and ticketing. The book also takes a clear sighted view of the use cases for MaaS in different contexts, and the commercial models for operators and transport authorities.

It’s published by The Institution of Engineering and Technology and is available physically and digitally here.