This week Oliver interviews Jake Sion, COO of Transit. We talkmicromobility, mobility as a service and the interplay between the two aswell as the wider mobility landscape and how software can infuseintelligence into it. After last weeks’ discussion on Adwords, Google mapsand mobility, it’s a topical discussion.Specifically, they cover:- Transit - what they do, services they integrate with, number of cities,and who they consider their customers.- How Jake sees the landscape for mobility as a service developing- The Transit UI starts with the question ’where are you going?’. They talkthrough that design decision and why it isn’t actually the primary use casefor Transit.- They talk through data standardisation such as MDS and GBFS, why itmatters, why it's such a political battleground and the importance of anon-profit organisation called Mobility Data in setting standards forinteroperability.- The state payments and how Jake sees it developing.- Why the forcing function for mobility-as-a-service is unllkely to bedriven by technology.- How micromobility plays into the discussion about mobility as a service.- They talk about funding for the mobility-as-a-service space and the longterm viability of the business model.