NEMU

The NEMU project is a project owned by Nordic+, with the partners ITS Norway, ITS Finland, ITS Danmark and ITS Island, in addition to Entur, Matkahuolto and SFMCON, with a budget of 2 MNOK, funeded partially by Nordic Innovation, and with the duration periode 2024-2027.

Rational: Rational: Seamless multimodal mobility across borders in the Nordics and beyond is essential to the EU commuting and leisure travel market. It is also one of the action points in the EU Green Deal and the Nordic Vision 2030: The Nordic Region will become the world’s most sustainable and integrated region by 2030.

Problem: While using a private car or air travel to cross borders in the Nordic region is easy and digital, planning and traveling using sea-based or public transport is fragmented and mostly confined to national boundaries.

Solution: NEMU will demonstrate the use of public transport and private transport providers to travel across the Nordic region is possible and easy too. The initiative leverage existing open mobility data to enable seamless, sustainable, and borderless travel across Nordic countries using one app and pay once.

By integrating the planning, booking and payment process in a one-stop and user-friendly service, NEMU addresses the pressing need for more efficient and environmentally friendly transportation in the Nordics. In fact, planning of cross border multimodal journeys will go from hours of hard labor to a few minutes of easy planning – and fully compete with the booking of air travel or using a car and GPS navigation.

Background and resources

The NEMU project was initiated by Nordic+ as a follow-up action after the NOMAD-project. The NEMU project is a direct and natural follow-up activity after NOMAD – using the findings and results of the NOMAD project as a starting point and collaborates with the standardization network ODIN and the transportation authorities in the Nordics to make sure it is in line with local and EU regulations. The project’s industry partners, Entur, Matkahuolto, and SFMCON, will enable and carry out the demonstrations.

Demonstrations

NEMU addresses cross-border travel services in two corridors:

• The North-South: Oslo – Gothenburg – Malmö – Copenhagen (train & bus as a minimum), enabled by Entur’s MaaS-app.
• East-West: Helsinki – Stockholm – Oslo (train, bus and ferry), enabled by Matkahoulto’s MaaS-app.

NEMU demonstrates how single MaaS apps can make Nordic journeys more accessible and an open market for mobility actors and software developers.

NEMU highlights

NEMU will:

• Work with real users doing real actions.
• Create an ecosystem that includes both public and private actors.
• Make use of data that has not been used before.
• Include sustainable aviation.
• Follow the (not-adopted) MDMS regulation as a guideline (includes ticket sales by third parties).
• Handle EU regulations that are in place, but which is practiced differently in the Nordics.
• Address the problem of tech legacy in mobility service systems.

NEMU will early on address and demonstrate:

• That data-driven solutions will only work if data is standardized and shared, and if we can trust the data.
• The importance of using planning data.
• The PTA’s ability to deliver standardized data with defined quality.
• That partnership between public actors and commercial interests can create attractive alternatives to the use of private cars.

If you would like more information about NEMU, contact Søren Sørensen at sos@sfmcon.com.