Context

The 10th Florence Intermodal Forum was the European Commission / DG MOVE annual gathering hosted by the Florence School of Regulation, focused that year on the prospects for EU-wide intermodal ticketing. The room was a mix of regulators, infrastructure managers, mobility operators, and standards-body representatives.

What I argued

The European MDMS (Multimodal Distribution and Mobility Services) standardisation framework was approaching the moment where the gap between the regulatory ambition (a continent-wide, accessible, interoperable mobility service layer) and the on-the-ground implementation (fragmented local stacks, brittle bilateral agreements, under-specified interfaces) needed an explicit aggiornamento — a deliberate refresh of the technical, contractual and governance conventions, not yet another patch.

Why it matters here

The Florence audience is the room where European mobility-data policy is rehearsed before it lands in regulation. Bringing the Fabrique des Mobilités’ work on MaaS standards (CMS, OCSS, Mon Compte Mobilité) into that conversation is part of what the MaaS standards project is for. The talk frames the rationale for the work catalogued in the linked case study.