Moventis Illes, a key player in the recovery of public transport in the Balearic Islands in 2022

 

Moventis Illes, concessionaire of the public interurban transport service of the TIB de Mallorca network, has become a fundamental element in promoting public transport in the Balearic Islands during the past 2022.

In general terms, a total of 15 million bus users chose interurban public transport (TIB) to move around Mallorca during the past financial year, which has meant an increase of 44% compared to the year 2019. These figures show that Mallorca, also thanks to the activity of Moventis Illes, has managed to recover pre-pandemic levels, according to data provided by the Ministry of Mobility and Housing of the Balearic Government.

This increase in demand over the last year coincides with the measures promoted by the regional executive throughout the urban and interurban public transport network, such as the increase in bus line frequencies and the expansion of services during summer of the territory. The free vouchers and discounts on Mallorca’s public transport have also contributed to this extraordinary result, which have resulted in a 70% discount on the EMT and TIB bus network, among other means of transport.

With a view to 2023, the Government hopes to continue this positive trend thanks to the free service for users who have the Intermodal Card, valid on all the lines operated by Moventis Illes.

Moventia in Pays de Grasse

Moventia has been awarded the contract to manage the urban transport service in the agglomeration community (a French government structure) of Pays de Grasse, in the region of Provence.
For a scheduled duration of 10 years, transport services will be provided under this concession to a conurbation inhabited by a little over 100,000 people. The concession will begin on 1 January 2023, when Moventia – a member of the Railway and Public Transport Syndicate of France – will manage all urban and intercity transport lines in the Pays de Grasse area through its subsidiary, Moventis. The company will also make school bus services available to all as a way to improve its service throughout the region. 
A fleet of 70 buses and microbuses will be used to meet demand, most of which were made in France by the Iveco brand. A number of electric vehicles are expected to join this fleet over the course of the concession to cover part of the service. Screens will also be installed to digitalise the information offered at bus stops and terminals, and solar panels will be installed to power those screens. 

The new network will also include a shuttle service from the city centre and a new line within the Bus with a High Level of Service (Buzo à Haut Niveau de Service) to boost capacity and regularity on this service. 
Finally, the concession also includes the construction of a new logistics platform for Grasse by 2025, with a capacity for some 100 buses. The new depot, which will have two levels above ground and two more below ground, will be built according to the environmental quality and sustainability guidelines for Bâtiments Durables Méditerranéens (BDM, or Mediterranean Sustainable Buildings). Moventis has now consolidated itself as a real alternative to the traditional French transport groups. 
The offer from Moventia in France will also include a new bicycle service to be launched in Marseille in December 2022. This service will consist of 2,000 electric, smart and connected bicycles. The bicycles will serve as their own docking station and charging platform. The system will also include a total of 200 fixed docking stations to provide an innovative hybrid solution for the French municipality.

The social commitment from the company seeks to create strong ties with its employees in order to achieve constructive and shared social dialogue, thereby becoming more competitive. As a member of the European Women in Transport platform, Moventia will also fight to guarantee gender equality and safety in the workplace as it continues to establish itself in France. 
Miquel Martí, CEO of Moventia, described the confidence placed in the company by the authorities of Pays de Grasse as “very positive”. “We would like to thank Pays de Grasse for its confidence in us. We will make every effort to provide the best possible service, to innovate and to remain loyal to our passengers and users. This company strives to offer quality transport for all”, he said. 

 

The Pays de Grasse urban and intercity transport concession is the second obtained by Moventia in France. The company has been managing the urban, intercity and school bus service in Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération, an agglomeration community in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region on the border with Switzerland, since 2017.
Through the Smovengo consortium, Moventia was also officially awarded the contract to manage Vélib in France in 2017, the public bicycle loan service in the metropolitan region of Paris. Four years later, in Clermont Ferrand, the company added another bicycle service to its portfolio with Inurba.

Photo: Jérôme Viaud, Aglomeración de Grasse president and Miquel Marti, Moventia’s CEO

Moventia receives Pays de Montbéliard

On October 24, representatives of the Moventia Council received at the corporate offices of Moventia in Sant Cugat del Vallés a delegation from the government of the Pays de Montbéliard Agglomeration made up of Mr. Charles Demouge, President, and Mrs. Aline Pellet, General Director of Services.

During the visit, the guests were able to get to know first-hand the human team of the Moventia corporate departments that actively participate in the proper day-to-day running of the Moventis Pays de Montbéliard operation, supporting the local human team. Likewise, they were able to see how the control center of the exploitation in the province of Barcelona works and were able to share impressions with the management team that was accompanying them throughout their visit.

Moventia began its business career in France with the urban, interurban and school transport service for the Pays de Montbéliard agglomeration in 2017, in the French county of north-eastern France, bordering Switzerland, where 72 municipalities are served. The Moventis – Pays de Montbéliard service is developed thanks to the daily work of 215 professionals, 65 of its own urban buses and 50 subcontractors.

Josep Maria Martí takes part in Sant Cugat 2030: City of the future

On Friday, 27 May, Josep Maria Martí (Deputy Chairman of Moventia and CEO of Moventis) took part in an event entitled “Sant Cugat 2030: City of the future”. The event sought to offer a response to the various demographic growth, sustainability and economic challenges faced by the city over the coming eight years.

Held in the Sala Clavé hall at “La Unió Santcugatenca”, three talks were given by experts to open a debate aimed at understanding the future of this city. The ultimate goal for the event was to enter a dialogue with experts and politicians on the status of the city and the challenges it faces in the near future.

The day focused on the three round table discussions. The first was based on “A city for living in”, from which the main conclusion was that “diversity is what attracts people to cities”.

The second dialogue session of the day began after a breakfast that provided networking opportunities. “Sustainable City” offered a common outlook on everything that needs to be considered for building a more sustainable city ecosystem, calling on organisations to adopt a more active role. Josep Maria Martí took part in this session.

Various issues were addressed during the debate, such as adapting the city to all the challenges and objectives stemming from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, equality, responsible consumption and production, and climate action.

The contribution from Josep Maria Martí highlighted the importance of harnessing EU funds in order to make progress towards a greener economy and society, called for incentives to encourage society and companies to commit to electric vehicles because 15 million journeys are made within the metropolitan area alone (300,000 of those in Sant Cugat) and defended nuclear power as a source of energy, as well as the importance of building wind farms.

The final conclusion from the second round table discussion was that Sant Cugat will only be viable if progress can be made towards a sustainable ecosystem, one that is conducive to a change of mentality that encompasses and involves education, society, companies and public authorities.

The third and final debate, which concluded the event, discussed another of the key issues for current affairs in the city: being an economic magnet. This dialogue was centred around how the city should adapt itself in order to remain attractive to large companies, as well as the challenges faced by the city in terms of business by small- and medium-sized enterprises.

CityBike Global becomes Inurba Mobility and arrives in Stockholm

CityBike Global, the operator of public individual mobility services funded by Moventia and in which Sherpa Capital currently holds a stake, recently presented its new rebranding process at an event in Barcelona. Following this process, the company will now operate in all the markets where it does business worldwide under the name of Inurba Mobility.

Seven years after the brand was created, this new name reflects the transformation undergone by the company and is also enshrined in a new visual identity that connects with cities, sustainability and growth.

While upholding these values, the company has also maintained a clear international focus. Sherpa Capital became a shareholder in 2020 to boost growth and the results have been highly effective. The company has doubled its sales turnover since it began operating in new international markets over the last two years.

The company announced that, for 2023, it plans to increase billing by 60% on the consolidated growth already seen in 2022 thanks to new projects that have already been signed this year and expects to post a turnover of close to 25 million euros.

This change of branding is a strategic move aimed at further strengthening the project and reflecting the company’s values and mission through the changes, which include a drive to offer services to cities and their inhabitants that can improve quality of life by providing new sustainable and efficient mobility options.

Inurba Mobility is an international company operating in several European and Latin American markets that, thanks to extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of the market, has successfully consolidated itself as the internationally benchmark operator and continues to add new destinations to the list of those where it offers its services.

In this regard, a public electric bicycle service was launched in the city of Stockholm (Sweden) in partnership with Inurba Mobility in May. The first 1,000 units of a total 5,100 that will be deployed around the city by the end of the year are already in place, with the hope that this will become one of the largest bike sharing services in Europe.

The launch of this new service in Stockholm will bring thousands of new, efficient and sustainable vehicles to the city and will be available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For the service offered in this city, Inurba has chosen Vaimoo as its strategic partner for the supply of smart electric bikes. Jordi Cabañas, CEO of Inurba Mobility, said “this new project by Inurba Mobility strengthens the leading European position held by the company in terms of public micro-mobility services”.

Moventia supports mobility initiatives and services that promote the values of sustainability and growth, as well as the search for better quality of life for people through the use of services that foster health and look after the environment.

 

Photo: https://www.inurbamobility.com/

 

Moventis joins FEMVallès

Photo: (from left to right) Josep Alberich, Miquel Martí Pierre, Silvia Martí, Antoni Abad, Alicia Bosch, Miquel Martí Escursell, Manel Larrosa, Josep Maria Martí, Gabriel Torras and Oriol Alba.

Moventis recently joined the FEMVallès association, a group of financial entities, professional trade unions and social entities that seeks to boost the economy and implement policies aimed at overcoming the condition of metropolitan periphery.
Following this recent move, a delegation from Moventia that included Miquel Martí Pierre (General Manager of Moventis Discretionary and Moventis representative within the association) received a visit by representatives from FEMVallès at the Moventia premises in Sant Cugat del Vallès on 11 May. The visit was used to present the work carried out by FEMVallès over the last 10 years and to jointly discuss infrastructure and mobility improvement proposals in the area.
The following representatives from the association attended the event: Toni Abad, Chairman of FEMVallès and CECOT; Oriol Alba, General Secretary of CECOT; Alícia Bosch, President of the Centro Metalúrgico and CIESC; Manel Larrosa, architect and member of ViaVallès; Arnau Vilà, Technical Secretary of FEMVallès; and Gabriel Torras, Managing Director of the Centro Metalúrgico. The following attended on behalf of Moventia: Miquel Martí Escursell, President of Moventia; Josep Mª Martí Escursell, Managing Director of Moventia and Executive Vice-President of Moventis; Sílvia Martí, Vice-President of Corporate Affairs at Moventia; and Miquel Martí Pierre, General Manager of Moventis Discretionary.

Moventia successfully concludes bus operations in Mecca for Ramadan season

In February, Moventia launched its urban transport service in Mecca with a shuttle line between Masjid al-Haram (the Great Mosque of Mecca) and Al Haramain Station (the high-speed train station).

In April, the company faced its greatest trial by fire on this project because Ramadan fell in that month this year, a period during which a vast number of pilgrims travel to Mecca (12 million this year). For this Stage of the project (Stage 1), Moventia operated 120 buses on up to four lines carrying up to 50,000 passengers per day in recent days. The shuttle between Masjid al-Haram and Al Haramain Station (Stage 0) was joined by the corridors leaving Masjid al-Haram: the western corridor, the south-eastern corridor and the northern corridor.

Jordi Castells, Head of Operations at Moventis and Manager of Moventis for Saudi Arabia, said he was “very pleased to have been able to successfully operate this service during the month of Ramadan. This was one of the main trials by fire for us and demonstrates that we are on the right path to completing our roll-out of this operation with 400 buses. It is important to stress that Moventia is the first international operator to launch an urban transport service in Saudi Arabia”.

Moventis, mobility partner of the TRAM Barcelona Open for second consecutive year

Silvia Martí, Vice-President of Corporate Affairs at Moventia, attended an event earlier today to present the V TRAM Barcelona Open, the International Wheelchair Tennis Tournament that Moventis supports as mobility partner. The event took place at the Barcelona Royal Tennis Club under the slogan of “El nostre únic límit el marca la pista” (“The court sets our only limit”).

The TRAM Barcelona Open has consolidated its position as a benchmark tournament on the international Uniqlo Wheelchair Tennis Tour and some outstanding players have already registered to take part this year. Confirmation from the numbers 1, 2 and 3 in the world (both men and women) positions this event as the best ITF2 category tournament by the International Tennis Federation and, once again, stands as the first tournament on the clay tour before Roland Garros. Having made these achievements, the tournament is ready to make the leap to the highest international category (ITF1) next year.

In line with the commitment from Moventia, Moventis continues to play its part and expresses solidarity with social and sports projects in order to maintain our support for the elimination of physical barriers that restrict mobility for persons with disabilities.

Moventis Sarfa recognised at Girona Tourism Awards

The award ceremony for the Girona Tourism Awards organised by the Costa Brava-Girona Tourist Board took place yesterday, Thursday 7 April, at the Church of Sant Pere in Ripoll. These annual awards seek to strengthen internal relations within the tourism sector, recognise the expertise of professionals and business leaders, and stimulate competitiveness from the tourism sector on the Costa Brava and Girona Pyrenees.

 

Moventis Sarfa received the “Xiquet Sabater Award for business projects”, which recognises those public or private institutions, entities or businesses that design, operate or consolidate projects or proposals that clearly contribute to enriching the attractiveness of the Costa Brava and/or Girona Pyrenees brands and stand out for their activity in support of developing tourism in the various parts of Girona.

 

The event, at which a video commemorating 100 years of the company was shown, was attended by the following on behalf of Moventis Sarfa: Josep Maria Martí, Vice-President and CEO of Moventia. Executive Vice-President of MOVENTIS; Juan Giménez, General Manager of Moventis; Enric Gimeno Aragonés, Manager of Moventis SARFA: Ana Gil, Head of Marketing at MOVENTIS, and a number of employees from Moventis SARFA.

 

According to Enric Gimeno, Manager of Moventis SARFA and the person responsible for collecting the award, “we want to dedicate this award to many people; first of all, to the public sector and especially the local council authorities of the 100 municipalities to which we currently provide our transport service, to the county councils, to the Regional Government of Catalonia, to Girona Provincial Council, to the Girona-Costa Brava Tourism Board, to the Chambers of Commerce of Palamós, Sant Feliu and Girona…; and, secondly, to the private sector, which has always supported us, and to our passengers, who have trusted and continue to trust in us.

And, as well, to all those people who, over the last 100 years, have dedicated or dedicate a good part of their life to SARFA, to the drivers of the present and past. This recognition is very much yours because, without you, this long journey would not have been possible”.

 

 

 

 

Moventis launches vélitY electric assisted bike rental service in Montbéliard

Moventis officially launched the “vélitY” electric assisted bike rental service in Montbéliard, France, on 19 March. This new service from vélitY forms part of the proactive policy adopted by the P.M.A. (Pays de Montbéliard Agglomeration) to promote and develop the use of bicycles in the region. As the authority in charge of mobility and responsible for public transport in the region, the P.M.A. has delegated the implementation and operation of this service to Moventis Pays de Montbéliard under a Public Service Delegation arrangement. Moventis will therefore manage this new service on behalf of P.M.A. and has renovated part of the workshop at its premises in Voujeaucourt so that it can house the 120 electric assisted bicycles