Beate Kubitz

Posted on August 15, 2017

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After working in shared transport she joined the board of TravelSpirit (TravelSpirit is an openly governed community and source code commons for collaborative open source projects supporting Mobility as a Service products and services), and is a consultant for a number of organisations. Beate recently authored an excellent report on the state of mobility-as-a-service for Landor which compiled thoughts on MaaS across the most established thought leaders in the industry.

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