HERIDAN, WYOMING – September 24, 2024 – Deutsche Telekom has unveiled goodride, a groundbreaking Mobility-as-a-Service platform and app designed to simplify urban travel in Germany. The app, available nationwide from today, consolidates various mobility services like scooters, buses, bikes, and trains into a single, user-friendly interface.
Seamless Multimodal Travel
goodride eliminates the need to juggle multiple apps for different modes of transport. With a one-time registration, users can plan, book, and pay for their entire journey, combining various transport options seamlessly. The app provides real-time data on schedules, delays, and availability, ensuring users have the most up-to-date information at their fingertips.
Personalized and User-Friendly
The app boasts a range of features designed to enhance the user experience:
- Multimodal route planning: Easily combine different modes of transport to find the best route from A to B.
- Real-time data: Access up-to-the-minute information on timetables, delays, and availability.
- Booking and payment: Plan, book, and pay for all your trips directly within the app.
- Full cost transparency: Get a clear overview of all your mobility expenses.
- Personalization: Receive tailored recommendations based on your preferences and usage patterns.
- User-friendliness: Intuitive design for easy navigation and use across all age groups.
- Security and data protection: The platform adheres to the highest security standards to protect personal data.
A Powerful Platform
goodride stands out as the only mobility platform in Germany that integrates public and private transport, along with their route and pricing information. Its strength lies in its holistic approach, leveraging AI to continuously improve the user's travel experience.
Dr. Olga Nevska, Managing Director of Telekom Mobility Solutions, highlights the importance of connectivity in future mobility: "Mobility without connectivity will no longer exist in the future. The transition to climate-friendly mobility requires not only environmentally friendly drive systems but also the intelligent networking of existing and new forms of mobility. With goodride, we are taking responsibility and further expanding our role as an orchestrator in the digital world."
Putting Customers First
Carsten Schröder, Product Manager for Mobility-as-a-Service, emphasizes the customer-centric approach of goodride: "goodride will help to finally shape mobility more from the customer's perspective. Our open ecosystem approach allows all mobility providers to integrate securely and easily into the app. Users get full freedom of choice and decide for themselves about their preferred means of transport. Finally, the nationwide seamless mobility experience is here!"
Experience goodride at Digital X
As the official mobility partner of Digital X 2024, goodride is managing transportation in Cologne for the two-day event. Attendees with a DIGITAL X ticket can use public transport, TIER scooters, and nextbikes.
Download and Explore
goodride is available for free download on all major app stores. Users can navigate public transport, subscribe to the Deutschlandticket, and combine, book, and pay for bikes, scooters, and taxis with public transport, all within a single app. The range of mobility providers and services on offer is continuously expanding.