The Estonian capital of Tallinn and the country’s second largest city of Tartu have signed a contract for the development of a mobility-as-a-service platform.
The aim is to consolidate the systems of public transport, taxis, electric scooters, and other mobility service providers in Tallinn and Tartu into a single travel planner and enable citizens also to pay for the ride in the same place with a single payment.
The app will be developed by the Latvian start-up mobility.delivered, mobile payment provider, Mobilly and geographic information systems, Jāņa Sēta.
“Our aim is to create a platform, which would help people combine different ways of transport, making it easier for people to move about the cities,” said Tallinn deputy mayor, Tanel Kiik. “In order to do so, different service providers must work together. In addition to buses, trolleybuses, trams and trains the app must include taxis and electric scooters as well.”
According to Tartu deputy mayor Raimond Tamm, diverse mobility services and their active use are of great importance to Tartu. He added: “This will help achieve our ambitious environmental goals. In the future, the application in question will allow both residents of Tartu and our guests to easily plan their movements, make choices between different modes of travel, and conveniently pay for all services used with a single payment.
“I am very happy that we have teamed up with Tallinn and that an innovative and necessary application will be introduced in the two largest cities of Estonia at the same time.”
