The NEMU project – First annual NEMU conference

For effortless, sustainable cross-border traveling in the Nordics

How can we make it as easy to plan, book, and pay for any multimodal journey in and between the Nordic countries in one go as it is to use the GPS in a car or book air travel?

• Which cross-border travel services have been opened to the public already?
• What were the first learnings from using open mobility data from more than one country?
• How can public transport benefit from a pan-Nordic open travel planner?
• What is cooking on open standards and EU regulation?
• What will other countries need to join the MaaS roaming concept?
• Most importantly, what is your contribution to the idea of borderless travelling services in the Nordics and beyond?
• What are the next steps to reach the goal of roaming like home for MaaS in 2030?

Be part of simplifying planning and payment for sustainable mobility throughout the Nordics.

This is a hybrid event (Oslo and online), and participation is free. You are welcome to join digitally; however, the workshop sessions and networking are best experienced on-site.

We need your input to make the best mobility offer for ground and sea travel from anywhere to anywhere in the Nordics and beyond.

We invite actors from the Nordic Mobility Ecosystem including:

• Regional Public Transport
• The ODIN group
• NAP authorities in the Nordics and beyond
• Nordic+ Rail companies
• Long-distance bus operators
• Ferry operators, national and cross-border Nordics/Baltics
• National transport authorities
• Demand Responsive Transport actors in the Nordic countries
• NAPCORE, UITP, DGMOVE

Program

• Welcome
  Hanne Nettum Breivik, ITS Norway
• The NEMU project – accomplishments and first learnings on cross-border travel planning and payment
  Søren Sørensen, SFMCON, Lars Tore Carlsen, Entur, Johanna Taskinen, Matkahoulto
• NEMU Strategy and NEMU Rig – What next?
  Jenny Simonsen, ITS Norway
• Panel discussion: The state of play for aligning cross-border travel planning, booking and payment in Europe
  In the panel:
  Brede Dammen, Entur
  Isabelle de Robert, Mobilitydata
  Jaako Rintamäki, Fintraffic
  Tu-Tho Thai
• Lunch and networking
• Workshop: Multimodal cross-border planning and ticketing in one go throughout the Nordics. How can regional public transport benefit?
  What will happen when visitors from Denmark can buy a ticket to a tram in Oslo using the same app they use in Denmark?
  Facilitator: Søren Sørensen, SFMCON
• Break
• Workshop: Cross-border travel using sustainable transport: how to expand geographical reach?
  How can, e.g. the Baltic countries join? What does it take?
  Facilitator: Søren Sørensen, SFMCON and Valts Murans, ITS Latvia
• Closing panel discussion: Next step towards the vision
  In the panel:
  Brede Dammen, Entur
  Johanna Taskinen, Matkahoulto
  Valts Murans, ITS Latvia
  Nina Egeli, Nordic Innovation
  Søren Sørensen ITS Danmark
  Moderator: Hanne Nettum Breivik, ITS Norway
• Summary and next steps

The two workshops will only be held physically.

If you have any allergies or food preferences, please include it in the registration form.

You can find the registration here!

About the NEMU project:
Imagine one open multimodal cross-border travel planner covering Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Imagine that you, from your preferred planning and ticketing app, can plan and pay in your currency for a multimodal journey with bus, ferry, and train to anywhere in the Nordics, plus your local use of shared mobility options in the visiting country.

The Nordic+ project NEMU, funded by Nordic Innovation, turns these imaginations into reality using mandated open mobility data and roaming principles.

The NEMU project objective is to open two corridors of borderless travel planning and payment in one go: from Finland to Oslo, Norway, and from Norway to Copenhagen, Denmark.

The implementation strategy involves using roaming principles between national/regional MaaS actors, open mobility data following EU-mandated standards, and open-source components.

The NEMU project is a testbed for the quality and usability of the open mobility data as a foundation for multimodal travel planning across modes and regional/national borders.

The project aims to include cross-border ferries as part of travel chains.