MaaS: Multimodal mobility strategies and digitalisation

Isabelle Vandoorne has been a civil servant at the European Commission since 2001. Prior to working as a deputy Head of the Research and Innovation (and urban mobility) Unit, she served as the acting Head of the Sustainable and Intelligent Transport unit at DG MOVE. Previously, she developed EU policies and regulations in the areas of intelligent transport systems, railways and telecoms, and with digitalisation projects in the field of EU taxation. Before that, she worked for the Belgian Railways. She holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical/Telecom Engineering from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons in Belgium, where she also worked as a researcher.

Fabien Couly is the head of the market monitoring department for the French transport regulation authority (ART). The department is in charge of controlling the opening of mobility data (EU delegated regulation 2017/1926) and the regulation of Mobility as a Service (French Mobility Act, article 28).

Previously, Mr. Couly served as a Policy Officer for the French multimodal information and smart-ticketing agency (Ministry of Transport) and as Deputy Director for the Southwestern territorial division of VNF (French Waterways Agency).

Hans Fiby has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of information technology, as an engineering consultant and as head of numerous projects in the transport and ITS sector. Since 2006, he has headed the Competence Centre for Intelligent Transport Systems of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, ITS Vienna Region. He was and is involved as a project manager and sought-after expert in numerous significant research and implementation projects.

Hans Fiby studied computer science at the Vienna University of Technology and organisational development at the University of Klagenfurt.

Laurent Glorieux is VP Client Success at Cityway, one of the leaders in MaaS for Local Governments and Operators.

Laurent is passionate about using digitalization to change the way we live and act; he has been leading global teams for digital companies for more than 15 years.

Cityway helps local authorities and transport organizations around the world provide better digital integrated mobility services to their travelers, for a more sustainable and shared mobility for all.

Together with his Data & Analytics team, Rob is responsible for making sure the Brussels public transport operator STIB-MIVB leverages data in a strategic way, without losing sight of the day-to-day operational benefits.

Rob has a background as an entrepreneur in the analytics field and is a regular trainer and speaker on these topics.

Jan Krämer is an Academic Co-Director at CERRE and a Professor at the University of Passau, Germany, where he holds the chair of Internet & Telecommunications Business.

Previously, he headed a research group on telecommunications markets at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he also obtained a diploma degree in Business and Economics Engineering with a focus on computer science, telematics and operations research, and a Ph.D. in Economics, both with distinction.

He is editor and author of several interdisciplinary books on the regulation of telecommunications markets and has published numerous articles in the premier scholarly journals in Information Systems, Economics, Management and Marketing research on issues such as net neutrality, data and platform economy, and the design of electronic markets.

Professor Krämer has served as academic consultant for leading firms in the telecommunications and Internet industry, as well as for governmental institutions, such as the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and the European Commission.

His current research focuses on the role of data for competition and innovation in online markets and the regulation of online platforms.

Jean Coldefy is an independent expert, Director of the programme ‘Mobility 3.0’, by ATEC ITS France.

From 2010-16, he was Deputy Director of Mobility for the Grand Lyon Métropole. In this position, he supervised the development of large-scale projects such as Optimod’Lyon (winner of the World ITS Prize in 2013) and OptiCities.

More recently, he was heavily involved in the planning of the Mobility Orientation Law (LOM) in France, alongside the Ministry of Transport and the cabinet of the Transport Minister.

He is a graduate of the Central School of Lille, where he obtained a Master’s degree in business management and computer science.