NEMU – Nordic Ecosystem Mobility Unlimited
– is about elevating Nordic Connectivity
The NEMU project is a project owned by Nordic+, with the partners ITS Norway, ITS Finland, ITS Danmark and ITS Island, in addition to Entur, Matkahuolto og SFMCON, with a budget of 5 MNOK, funded by Nordic Innovation for three years starting mid 2024.
Rationale: Seamless multimodal mobility across borders in the Nordics and beyond is essential to the EU commuting and leisure travel market. It is also one of the action points in the EU Green Deal and the Nordic Vision 2030: The Nordic Region will become the world’s most sustainable and integrated region by 2030.
Problem: While using a private car or air travel to cross borders in the Nordic region is easy and digital, planning and traveling using sea-based or public transport is fragmented and mostly confined to national boundaries.
Solution: NEMU will demonstrate the use of public transport and private transport providers to travel across the Nordic region is possible and easy too. The initiative leverages existing open mobility data to enable seamless, sustainable, and borderless travel across Nordic in one go.
By integrating the planning, booking and payment process in a one-stop and user-friendly service, NEMU addresses the pressing need for more efficient and environmentally friendly transportation in the Nordics. In fact, planning of cross border multimodal journeys will go from hours of frustration to a few minutes of easy planning – and fully compete with the booking of air travel or using a car and GPS navigation.
Background and resources
The NEMU project was initiated by Nordic+ as a follow-up action after the NOMAD project. The NEMU project uses the findings and results of the NOMAD project as a starting point and collaborates with the standardisation network ODIN and the transportation authorities in the Nordics to make sure it is in line with local and EU regulations. The project’s industry partners, Entur, Matkahuolto, and SFMCON, will enable and carry out the demonstrations.
Demonstrations
NEMU addresses cross-border travel services in two corridors:
- The North-South: Oslo – Gothenburg – Malmö – Copenhagen (train & bus as a minimum), enabled by Entur’s MaaS-app (Mobility as a Service).
- East-West: Helsinki – Stockholm – Oslo (train, bus and ferry), enabled by Matkahoulto’s MaaS-app.
NEMU demonstrates how single MaaS apps can make Nordic journeys more accessible and an open market for mobility actors and software developers.
NEMU highlights
NEMU will:
- Work with real users doing real actions.
- Create an ecosystem that includes both public and private actors.
- Make use of data that has not been used before.
- Include sustainable aviation.
- Follow the (not-adopted) MDMS regulation as a guideline (including ticket sales by third parties).
- Handle EU regulations that are in place, but which is practiced differently in the Nordics.
- Address the problem of tech legacy in mobility service systems.
NEMU will early on address and demonstrate:
- That data-driven solutions will only work if data is standardised and shared, and if we can trust the data.
- The importance of using planning data.
- The PTA’s ability to deliver standardised data with defined quality.
- That partnership between public actors and commercial interests can create attractive alternatives to the use of private cars.
NEMU project plan
NEMU News
NEMU PARTNERS
Nordic+ is a network of ITS associations located in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, and Sweden. The Nordic+ network consists of 400+ mobility and transportation companies, cities, authorities, and organisations in research and academia – all members of their local ITS association. The Nordic+ network share a vision of connected and sustainable mobility, reachable for all user groups across regions from cities to rural areas. The Nordic ITS organisations, now under the Nordic+ umbrella, has a track record of stimulating innovation advancing connected and sustainable mobility in the Nordics. Latest evidenced in the NOMAD project. Nordic+ is the project owner for the NEMU project.
Entur has been established and is owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and is intended to offer basic public transport services within travel planning and ticketing on competition-neutral terms. Entur is leading the use of transmodel standards and use of open source to provide easy access to information about multimodal travel options including purchase of combined tickets in Norway. In the NEMU project Entur is the main driver for adherence to standards and pioneering how to facilitate sales of cross border multimodal journeys in one go.
Matkahuolto is a private operated Finnish Public transport Service provider. Matkahuolto Digital Travel Services focus on sustainable mobility services, tickets and timetables. Matkahuolto act as a MaaS agent selling own and third-party mobility services servicing the Finnish Market. In Finland the MaaS market is open by law. Through the NEMU project Matkahuolto will make use of same approach as Entur as far as possible to demonstrate the value of using same standards and open source components to deliver good services to end users.
SFMCON ApS is a Danish company who help mobility schemes stakeholders to create integrated and smart MaaS solutions allowing seamless journeys from A to B combining use of both public and private operated shared vehicles. SFMCON delivers the technical lead role of the NEMU project.
If you would like more information about NEMU, contact Søren Sørensen at sos@sfmcon.com.
