FOR A DESIRABLE CITY

Everyone working in mobility talks about MaaS - Mobility-as-a-Service - even though what once seemed like the magical solution to all our (mobility) problems is now struggling to come true. Sure, there have been many interesting initiatives and new apps on the market, but did they find a sustainable way to make money and whose interest do they serve?

Paris, capital of France — and supposedly of love — was a dense and vibrant city in pre-Covid19 times, which was not usually considered a haven for bikes, unlike its Dutch and Danish counterparts. The Deputy Mayor of Paris for transport even states on his Linkedin account that Paris is “the most beautiful city in the world. But not for cyclists… yet”.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken over most of the world in the last couple of months and has the majority of the world’s population confined at home or at least urged to respect social distancing, turning our priorities and our schedules upside down in a very short period of time.