Open standards and MaaS: building the digital infrastructure for mobility

Since 2021, I’ve been leading a series of initiatives at La Fabrique des Mobilités to standardise the data, services, and business models that support digital and service-based mobility (Mobility-as-a-Service — MaaS) in France. The mission: to provide cities, operators, and industry players with a shared, open, and interoperable foundation to support both ecological transition and a better user experience.

Over the past four years, these efforts have led to the emergence of a national roadmap, a collaborative community, technical benchmarks, and barometers now used by public agencies and local authorities.

Context and objectives

• Making MaaS a public good — a framework of open standards to prevent vendor lock-in and ensure data sovereignty.
• Aligning national strategy (France Nation Verte’s Digital & Data roadmap) with local needs.
• Empowering local authorities to digitise mobility benefits and tickets, and measure the effectiveness of their mobility policies.
• Informing decision-makers — public and private — about sustainable business models through working groups and dedicated research.

What was built

• A national roadmap for MaaS standards, articulated across data, services, and business-model layers.
• A collaborative community (operators, cities, industry, research) meeting regularly through FabMob working groups.
• A series of technical benchmarks and barometers tracking maturity and adoption across regions and operator segments.
• Public reports and guides, open-licensed and freely reusable.

My role

• Programme lead — defining the scope, building the community, keeping national and regional stakeholders aligned.
• Author / co-author of several reference documents and barometers.
• Advisor to France Nation Verte and local authorities on MaaS strategy and implementation.

Learn more

• La Fabrique des Mobilités — public wiki and open repositories
• Standards maturity barometers (published on an annual cadence)
• National roadmap for MaaS data standards (co-published with public partners)