Introduction of standard bus information format in Kashiwa city towards Japanese MaaS

Abstract

MaaS （Mobility-as-a-Service） originated in Finland is now making great impacts on transport societies around the world. Even in Japan without transportation unions for passenger-oriented fare adjustment scheme, movements to enable mutual use among different transportation-IC cards and to distribute basic data among public transport modes have been seen. This paper summarizes activity profiles of the Kashiwa ITS promotion council for some 10 years, and future prospects in Kashiwa city towards “Japanese Maas”. This is abridged translation of abstracts for oral presentation at WCTR Society SIG G2 Vienna in 2018.