Third-party payment specification for Mobility as a Service

Brecht Van de Vyvere, Tim Asperges, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Verborgh

Keywords: third-party payment, semantics, mobility-as-a-service, maas

TL;DR: How third-parties can compensate the trip cost of travellers leveraging semantics

Abstract:

MaaS is able to calculate the least expensive route over multiple mo‐
bility providers as billing information has already been standardized . However,
this does not include third-party payment schemes where a third party, such as a
local government, compensates a part of a travellers’ trip cost when certain cri‐
teria are met. To automatize third-party agreements for MaaS, we propose (i) a
specification to set up a third-party payment 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.