Moving Tech Innovations (MTI), the operator of the world’s largest open infrastructure for shared mobility, has announced its acquisition of the Netherlands-based Automicle Holding BV, marking MTI’s formal expansion into the European market. MTI currently powers leading open mobility platforms such as Namma Yatri, Bharat Taxi, and Chennai One. The collaboration aims to accelerate the adoption of locally managed, open mobility systems across Europe.

European cities are increasingly reevaluating their mobility ecosystems, emphasizing transparency, sustainability, multi-modal integration, and long-term control over data and policy decisions. Accessible and inclusive transportation is now central to urban innovation. Automicle was founded to meet these challenges, offering digital parking and public mobility solutions built on European regulatory knowledge and close engagement with local stakeholders.

MTI brings to Europe a mature, population-scale mobility platform that has facilitated over 150 million trips and generated more than €250 million in commission-free earnings for drivers. Designed as digital public infrastructure, the platform offers fully customizable, end-to-end solutions for ride-hailing, micro-mobility, parking, integrated public transport, and specialized services such as ambulance and senior transport. Fully compliant with GDPR, data localization, and local ownership standards, the platform allows European cities to deploy reliable, cost-effective mobility systems with confidence.

Jef Heyse and Mohit Mishra, Automicle co-founders, stated: “This marks a major milestone for Automicle and European mobility. By combining our regional expertise with MTI’s proven infrastructure, we can roll out locally governed systems that create meaningful, scalable impact while upholding European values and governance standards.”

Magizhan and Shan MS, MTI co-founders, added: “Europe and India are aligned around a shared vision: digital infrastructure is most effective when it is open, transparent, and developed collaboratively with cities and communities. Together, we can build mobility systems that are dependable, affordable, and designed to endure.”

Both companies operate on open standards, including the Beckn Protocol and TOMP API, enabling smooth integration across operators while avoiding vendor lock-in. Advanced discussions are already underway in several European countries, as cities seek forward-looking mobility solutions based on open protocols, local ownership, and long-term sustainability.

Dailycsr.com – 27 May 2019 – The “ACEC/MA” or the “American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts” presented the “2019 Engineering Excellence Gold Award” to Tetra Tech for its “achievements on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Liberia Municipal Water Project (LMWP) I & II”.
 
The said award provides recognition to various engineering projects for their “innovation, complexity, fulfillment of client needs, socio-economic considerations, and future value to the profession”. And Tetra Tech has been involved in designing, overseeing constructions and “institutional reform” of LMWP besides the engineering it also built the “the capacity of the water utility and local engineers”.
 
During the LMWP project, the Tetra Tech’s team fixed water treatment plants that were in dilapidated conditions. Moreover, it also used “renewable energy, slow sand filters, water treatment, distribution, and storage” facilities to expand on the “water utility infrastructure” besides monitoring the water utility of Liberia.
 
Thanks to the said project as many as thirty three thousand people have access to clean water, while Tetra Tech built strategic “distribution kiosks” within half a kilometre of almost every household in “each of three cities” that fell under the project’s perimeter. This way, the risks of travelling safety has been successfully eliminated for earlier people would walk “up to 2,000 meters into remote areas” to get water.
 
Solar technology intervened to cut down on diesel consumption, while slow sand filters replaced “costly chemicals” which together delivered “an affordable solution” which can be “maintained at the local level”. Tetra Tech paired “context-appropriate solutions with capacity building” and helped these communities to become more “self-reliance”. Furthermore, the company also trained the locals about the operation and the maintenance of the water systems.
 
In fact, Tetra Tech also went ahead to ensure that the new systems are managed effectively without any disturbance, as a result it is carrying out “operation and maintenance training” besides providing “utility management support to the local private operator”.
 
Through the “context-appropriate approach” at LMWP, Tetra Tech set an example to replicate the local water utility in other parts of the country as a means to strengthen the water utility infrastructure. Furthermore, it is reported that:
“LMWP also considered socioeconomic factors throughout project implementation by safeguarding water revenue within the sector—accounting for education levels and developing institutional capacity—which stimulated the economy, boosted public health, and improved sustainability”.
 
Tetra Tech struck a private-public partnership and helped to mitigate an “endemic corruption within the water sector” which gave way to “improved transparency” within the sector and safeguarded the “USAID’s investment”. Community representatives were chosen to oversee daily functions of the system so as to improve accountability besides establishing local ownership.
 
 
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