May Mobility & Moovit Partner to Deploy Complete Autonomous Public Transit Service

May Mobility, a US developer of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, and Moovit, a leading Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solutions provider, are partnering to offer a full autonomous public transit solution. The partnership will allow riders to plan, pay and ride in shared AVs while providing them a safe, accessible, and sustainable form of mobility in regions around the globe.

May Mobility's autonomous vehicle fleets will work in concert with Moovit's urban mobility app and on-demand reservation and routing software. 

Potential users of the future dedicated mobility app will be able to view options for taking May Mobility AVs alongside other modes of public transit, such as buses or trains. 

Moovit's 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. 

May Mobility has given more than 320,000 autonomy-enabled rides in the last five years via 10 deployments in the US and Japan.

This includes AV services that currently serve communities in Minnesota, Michigan, and Texas.

Edwin Olson, Co-founder and CEO of May Mobility, says:. "A big part of our go-to-market strategy is to partner with industry leaders that will take our 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. We look forward to growing this partnership with Moovit through expanded geographic areas and leveraging each other's strengths to serve all passengers."

"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," adds Nir Erez, Moovit's Co-founder and CEO. "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, established in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2017, is an autonomous system based on its proprietary Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) system.