Suvi has more than 13 years of experience in working with Public Transport and technology. After finishing her Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from Turku School of Economics, Finland she joined INIT – the worldwide leading supplier IT solutions for public transport. She started in the company’s HQ in Germany and since 2013 Suvi is based in Singapore. She is the Regional Director for INIT Asia-Pacific looking after the Asian market. Suvi has extensive experience working with several types of Public Transport ITS topics including Inclusive Public Transport, Electromobility, Fare Collection, Passenger Counting, Mobility-as-a-Service, Scheduling & Dispatching and Fleet Management. In 2020 Suvi was elected to the Council of ITS Singapore and was re-elected again in 2022.
Sessions
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June 07: Enabling integrated and inclusive mobility with agile service models and technologies
Mobility for all – using public transport with impairments
The presentation talks about how to make public transport truly inclusive with the use of innovative technology. For example, when designing passenger information, it needs to be addressed that passengers of hard-of-hearing will not hear the announcements, visually impaired will not see displays and for example wheelchair users normally have no way of knowing if there is space for them in a bus. Another example is to have an assistive technology to help visually impaired to virtually hail a bus. Only when the disabled passengers feel that public transport is not only accessible but also inclusive, they will be willing to use public transport alone and maybe even make the shift from paratransit to fixed route services.
