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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