Third-party payment specification for MaaS

Abstract

Mobility as a service (MaaS) allows intelligent transportation across multiple mobility providers, such as calculating the least expensive route. However, the current standards do not tackle third-party payments (TPPs) where a third party compensates a part of a travellers’ trip cost when certain criteria are met. For example, travellers receive 10% discount from a local government when renting a shared bike in the cities’ centre during peak hours. To automatize TPP agreements for MaaS, we propose and demonstrate with an example (i) a specification to set up a TPP system specifying, among others, how multimodal criteria and trips can be semantically described, and (ii) an open source validator tool returning the compensation for a trip. In future work, we are investigating how personal data can be integrated using Solid data pods.