Regulating Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in European Union (eBook)

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the regulatory challenges and legal barriers surrounding the MaaS concept in the EU. By evaluating MaaS against existing EU legal frameworks on data sharing, competition, transport law and beyond, this research seeks to shed light on the regulatory implications of the MaaS concept. It employs a problem-based approach and qualitative doctrinal legal research methodology to assess the potential of MaaS in enhancing the efficiency, accessibility, sustainability, digitalization, multimodality, competitiveness, and convenience of the EU passenger transport sector, while identifying shortcomings in current EU regulatory frameworks that may impede its growth and analysing potential harms that rise of MaaS might cause to competition and users. The book concludes by providing recommendations aimed at enhancing the EU legal frameworks, with the goal of establishing a unified and harmonized framework that promotes an open, competitive, and multimodal MaaS market. In summary, producing a book on the regulatory challenges of MaaS in the EU now can contribute to the ongoing discourse, provide valuable insights, and offer guidance for policymakers, regulators, industry stakeholders, and researchers involved in shaping the future of mobility.

Erion Murati completed his law degree at the University of Udine in Italy with the highest grade. He was granted a Ph.D. scholarship and admitted to the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL) at the University of Hamburg, Germany in November 2018. His Ph.D. research centres around the digitization of the mobility sector, with a particular focus on the concept of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) from an EU legal standpoint. He published with renowned publishers as well as esteemed journals like the European Transport Research Review (ETRR). Alongside his research, he recently founded Mobility Space (www.mobilityspace.eu ), an academic open access journal, which aligns with his work in the mobility field. He has accumulated a wealth of teaching experience in EU and international law at various institutions, including the University of Hamburg, the China-EU School of Law, and the Berlin School of Law and Economics. He also works in Berlin as a Consultant in the fields of data governance, data protection and information security.