Moovit, a leading Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solutions provider and creator of the popular urban mobility app, and May Mobility, a leader in the development and deployment of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, are expanding the reach and efficiencies of shared autonomous vehicles and AV microtransit projects to mind the gaps in public transit. 

The companies will be poised to capture a portion of the nearly $2 trillion total addressable market that Frost & Sullivan projected for the Mobility-as-a-Service sector. May Mobility’s autonomous vehicle fleets, powered by its unique Multi-Policy Decision (MPDM) technology, will work in concert with Moovit’s urban mobility app and on-demand reservation and routing software. The partnership will allow riders to easily plan, pay, and ride in shared AVs while providing them a safe, accessible, and sustainable form of mobility in regions around the globe. 

Moovit’s popular urban mobility app, available in 3,500 cities across 112 countries, offers users multimodal trip planning for any mode of transport with real-time information. The company also offers governments, transit agencies, and private companies MaaS solutions that cover planning, operations, and optimization, including its on-demand routing and fleet management software, Moovit On-Demand. 

“The combination of Moovit and May Mobility’s technologies, products, and services will provide communities around the world with more mobility alternatives to choose from,” said Nir Erez, Co-founder and CEO of Moovit. “We share a vision of filling in the gaps in public and shared autonomous transportation and will work diligently to provide better access to accessible and sustainable transportation.” 

May Mobility has given more than 320,000 autonomy-enabled rides in the last five years via 10 unique deployments in the US and Japan. This also includes AV services that serve communities in Minnesota, Michigan, and Texas, with other deployments set to launch in coming months. 

“A big part of our go-to-market strategy is to partner with industry leaders that will take out services to the next level. Moovit is a trusted industry leader that serves more than 1.7 billion riders globally, and their services and relationships will further enhance our ability to scale,” said Edwin Olson, Co-founder and CEO of May Mobility. “We look forward to growing this partnership with Moovit through expanded geographic areas and leveraging each other’s strengths to serve all passengers.”

The collaboration between Moovit and May Mobility will offer more cities around the world a complete mobility package. Potential users of the future unified mobility app will be able to view options for taking May Mobility AVs alongside other modes of public transit, such as buses or trains, receive real-time arrival information, Live Directions and step-by-step guidance throughout the entire journey, Service Alerts, and more. Moovit will also plan to bring its Moovit On-Demand software to May Mobility’s backoffice, facilitating the ability for May Mobility’s team to better manage services and vehicles all in one console.