A few weeks ago, in preparation for our MOTION Magazine Edition One, I spoke to Roland Jung, Head of Mobility Munich for the global car manufacturer BMW. His daily job is to look after all employee-oriented mobility offerings for efficient mobility support at BMW. And what a task that is: If the BMW Group in Munich were a city in its own right, it would be in the dimensions of an average medium-sized European city with more than 40,000 inhabitants and over 600 addresses. This would be roughly the size of Siena in Italy or the Corsican city of Bastia. And as for any modern city, BMW City would face the challenge of connecting all these different places, offering its inhabitants comfortable and fast mobility solutions, and achieving CO2 -neutral inner-city traffic over the long term.

With war right at its borders, rampant inflation and, let’s not forget, a pandemic still ongoing, the Three Seas Summit and Business Forum did not disappoint when it comes to tackling some of the challenges its twelve member states face today. Hosted this year by the Latvian capital of Riga, the Three Seas Initiative consists of twelve countries in and around the Adriatic, Black and Baltic seas.

Together with Mariska Matadin we are introducing five amazing women and asking them about their individual drive to accelerate change in the mobility industry. Here is a short interview with Karen Pesse, Digital Advisor at Microsoft, telling us about the challenges in her career.

Today, we’d like to present you our interview with Mobility expert Roman Benedetto, Partner at EFS Consulting, based in Vienna with a good 300 employees. Their mission is to help international mobility providers in their transformation to a smarter mobility, both in urban spaces as well as on long distance travel.