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The train, and NS in particular, is failing these days.

We couldn't imagine it any easier. Travelers can plan, book and pay for a door-to-door multimodal journey using an easy-to-use all-in-one app. Using shared bicycles or scooters, which take us to the station, and then travel by train to the final destination and then continue traveling with a shared bicycle. Only practice is often different. 

Despite MaaS having to offer advantages in our transport provision, an important link in the transport chain is becoming less and less reliable. The train. And NS in particular fails too often. The hope is that, with a high-quality user-friendly service, we can encourage travelers to change their entrenched mobility behaviour. Perhaps leaving the car at home more often and using more sustainable alternatives such as the train. Unfortunately, the current experience brings the traveler back to his trusted car and he takes the traffic jam into the bargain.

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Travelers can plan, book and pay for a door-to-door multimodal journey.

Everything that makes MaaS very promising and where various studies outline a bright future has the downside that the reality is different and MaaS has been implemented only falteringly until now. Our entire system of moving in the Netherlands is built around separate modalities, each with its own interests. And that makes it difficult to connect the transport chain and services of various providers within MaaS.

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The problem is not only in the failure of services, often due to staff shortage. In the MaaS collaboration issue, the sharing data. Due to the absence of complete, accurate and up-to-date information about the availability, occupancy rate, location, planning and costs of the mobility offer, a MaaS service provider will never be able to fully answer the demand of travelers. here comes TOMP look around the corner. By using this technology, transport companies can cooperate better with each other.
 
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Municipalities also play an important role. In recent years, the municipality of Eindhoven has set a good example in the field of sharing data. More and more datasets are freely accessible and can be used. Some of this data is valuable for MaaS, such as the datasets about charging stations and parking spaces. Equally important, however, is that the city has, as it were, assumed the moral authority to request data from other parties. For example, if a carrier wants to offer its services in the city, it is only allowed to do so if it makes its data available. 
 
In any case, the municipality automatically makes agreements for each product or service about the supply of such data that generates data in whatever form. At the moment, the Open Data portal is mainly suitable for professionals, such as researchers. Employees and cooperation partners of the Municipality of Eindhoven also use it. They also help developers of digital applications who need the data for new applications.
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