Episode 7: Sonja Heikkilä, Project Director at OP Financial Group & Ian Sacs, Project Manager at Ramboll

Sonja Heikkilä is currently employed by OP Financial Group, but she is a traffic engineer and a pioneer of Mobility as a Service thinking. She has previously worked as a transport engineer for the City of Helsinki and her groundbreaking work on Mobility as a Service has been featured in Business insider, Bloomberg and Fast Company among others. Ian Sacs has graduated from the University of Tennesee-Knoxville in civil engineering in transport and has worked as the traffic director or the city of Hoboken, in NJ. He has also blogged extensively on traffic related topics. Today he works as a traffic consultant at Ramboll in Helsinki, Finland. In this episode Sonja and Ian discuss how we are moving from transport as a service to mobility as a service . As the opportunities seem endless, one of the challenges is to move away from what we already know and be truly creative. Why is Helsinki in an advanced position regarding this development? What is the future of private cars in the future? What is the menu of mobility? And what are the cities which these two experts look up to?

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Episode 7: Sonja Heikkilä, Project Director at OP Financial Group & Ian Sacs, Project Manager at Ramboll is an episode from Helsinki Design Week Podcast by Helsinki Design Week.

This episode is 42:03 long.

This episode was published on Oct 4, 2017.

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