What Mobility Institute Berlin does

Mobility Institute Berlin (legal entity: MIB Mobility GmbH) is a Berlin-based consultancy founded in 2018 that advises German public transport authorities, operators, and municipal and regional governments on urban mobility transformation (Mobilitätswende). The firm's client roster spans BVG, Hamburger Hochbahn, KVB Cologne, the cities of Hannover, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt (traffiQ), Munich, Osnabrück, and regional bodies including Region Rhineland, Metropole Ruhr, and VRR. Service lines include Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) development, network optimization studies, bikesharing and micromobility strategy, multimodal transport system design, on-demand transport analysis, and pandemic-recovery research.

The firm's core product is the Travel Time Index (TTI), an internally developed analytical tool that systematically compares public transport versus private car travel times across all routes within a city. The TTI partitions cities into a 100x100m grid and computes index values per cell, weighted by population density and POI intensity, using the gtfsrouter R package with open-source GTFS timetable data and HERE Technologies' Geocoding, Search, and Isoline APIs. Complementary products include an interactive global Best Practice Map cataloging 55 lighthouse projects (filterable across Infrastructure, Urban Design, Public Transport, Policy, Equality, and Multimodality) and a portfolio of publications such as 'Visions for Urban Mobility' (2022) and several 2020 SARS-CoV-2 impact studies.

MIB generates revenue through project-based consulting engagements sold directly to enterprise public-sector clients, with pricing not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is sales-led and content-driven: thought leadership via publications, conference presence (TEDx, polisMOBILITY, VBKI, RAILTALKS), and earned media coverage (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Zeit Online, Berliner Zeitung, WAZ) drive top-of-funnel demand. Strategic partnerships with Jelbi (BVG's multimodal platform), SHARE NOW, and Shotl have produced joint research, while HERE Technologies is integrated as a technology vendor for the TTI. The firm has no disclosed funding rounds, parent company, or M&A activity, and operates with 11-50 employees from its Berlin headquarters at Neue Schönhauser Straße 20.

Name

Mobility Institute Berlin

Legal name

MIB Mobility GmbH

Website

https://mobilityinstitute.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mobility Institute Berlin is a Berlin-based consultancy advising German public transport authorities and municipal governments on urban mobility transformation, leveraging its proprietary Travel Time Index tool, research publications, and a global best-practice map cataloging 55 lighthouse projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Transportation Consulting Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Transportation (488)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Transportation & Infrastructure Planning (BPAHAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Active Transportation & Micromobility Infrastructure (Bike/Ped Networks, Shared Mobility Programs) (BPAIALAI), Urban Micro-Mobility & Courier Routing (Bike/Scooter) (TLAEAGAL)

Keywords

• Urban mobility consulting
• Public transport advisory
• Transport strategy consulting
• Sustainable mobility planning
• Transit network optimization

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Strategic Consulting Services: MIB generates revenue through consulting engagements with public transport authorities, operators, and municipalities. Engagements include workshops (e.g., workshops on network creativity for BVG), strategy processes (e.g., internal strategy process for Hannover), mobility planning (SUMP development), and advisory on multimodal transport systems.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Mobility Institute Berlin (MIB) is a Berlin-based consultancy advising public transport authorities, operators, and municipalities on urban mobility transformation. Core deliverables include strategy consulting (workshops, strategy processes), mobility planning (SUMP development), network optimization, micromobility and bikesharing analysis, multimodal transport system design, and data-driven mobility studies. Engagements are project-based, quote-driven, and primarily delivered to German public-sector clients.

Product overview

Mobility Institute Berlin is a consulting firm (MIB Mobility GmbH) providing advisory services for urban mobility transformation. Their offering consists of strategic consulting engagements combined with proprietary research tools and publications. The core product is the Travel Time Index—an internally developed analytical tool that compares public transport vs car travel times across German cities. They also provide a Best Practice Map with 55 global lighthouse projects, and publish research studies on topics including multimodal transport, on-demand services, micromobility, and pandemic impact on public transport. Projects span workshops, network optimization, Bikesharing strategy, SUMP development, and multimodal system design for various German cities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urban Mobility Consulting Services Project-based advisory engagements for German public transport authorities, operators, and municipalities, including workshops on network creativity, internal strategy processes, mobility behavior studies, SUMP development, bikesharing and micromobility strategy, multimodal transport system design, and evaluation frameworks for regional mobility concepts. Delivered as scoped consulting projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• In German cities, cars are on average 2.06 times faster than public transport (Travel Time Index of 2.06). Berlin has a TTI of 1.95 (public transport 1.95x slower than car); Hamburg has a TTI of 2.24.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• JelbicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020MIB partnered with Jelbi (the multimodal mobility platform operated by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG) to analyze booking behavior in the Jelbi app during the Corona pandemic. The joint study 'Multimodal gegen Corona' compared multimodal booking patterns against pure PT app behavior. Findings showed that customers returned faster to short-term PT products via multimodal platforms. Jelbi is a subsidiary/app of BVG.
• SHARE NOWcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020MIB partnered with SHARE NOW (BMW and Daimler joint venture car sharing service) to investigate how car sharing usage changed during the Corona pandemic. The study 'More protection, less congestion' found that car sharing helps solve the dilemma between individual risk prevention and social congestion, and that car sharing demand recovered faster than public transport demand.
• ShotlcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020MIB partnered with Shotl (an on-demand transport provider) to analyze how on-demand services responded to the pandemic crisis. The study examined on-demand service usage in the suburbs of Barcelona during the first weeks of the Corona crisis, finding that on-demand mobility recovered to 87% of pre-crisis demand by July while regular buses recovered to only 45%.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• PTV Group: European transport planning software and consulting firm offering PTV Visum and related mobility modeling tools. Directly comparable to MIB as a specialized transport planning consultancy serving transit authorities and cities, with a deeper software product base.
• Planersocietät: German mobility planning consultancy specializing in SUMP development, public transport concepts, and traffic planning for German municipalities. Closely matches MIB's municipal SUMP, network optimization, and Mobilitätswende consulting focus.
• KCW GmbH: Berlin-based transport consultancy advising public transport authorities on strategic, economic, and regulatory questions across Germany. Directly competes with MIB in the German public transport advisory market.
• team red Deutschland: German mobility consultancy focused on integrated transport planning, micromobility, and Mobilitätswende advisory for cities. Highly comparable to MIB in customer base, service offering, and geographic focus.

Broad incumbents

• Roland Berger: European-origin strategy consultancy with strong German public sector and mobility engagements. Competes for German city and transit authority strategy work at the larger end of the project size spectrum.
• WSP: Global professional services firm with a dedicated transport and infrastructure practice. Competes for large municipal mobility transformation mandates and offers bundled engineering and consulting capabilities MIB cannot match alone.
• Ramboll: Global engineering and consulting firm with a substantial transport and mobility practice across Europe. Competes with MIB on larger multi-disciplinary urban mobility and SUMP engagements across German and Nordic cities.
• McKinsey & Company: Global management consultancy with a Mobility practice active in German and European urban transport strategy. Targets the same municipal and transit authority clients on higher-end transformation programs.

Others

• Fraunhofer IAO: German applied research institute with mobility and urban systems research programs. Adjacent to MIB through research-driven mobility insights and policy studies; influences but does not directly compete for consulting mandates.
• Difu (Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik): German urban research institute serving municipal governments on urban development and mobility. Adjacent peer rather than direct competitor; shapes the same municipal policy and research agenda as MIB.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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