The agreement aims to improve the transportation of Real Betis fans to Liga and Europa League matches.
Real Betis Balompié and Moovit, an Intel company, a leading provider of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solutions and the most widely used urban mobility app in the world, have signed a collaboration agreement on mobility.
The purpose of this collaboration is to facilitate and promote sustainable mobility in travel to matches by combining all possible options, either by collective public transport or through any micromobility alternative such as public or private bicycles, scooters or on foot.
Fans will receive turn-by-turn instructions to fans attending Betis matches, whether playing at home or away.
In addition to offering multimodal journeys that combine all the mobility options available in Seville and its metropolitan area, this multimodal planner is available in 45 languages, a fundamental aspect for a team like Betis that receives football fans from different countries.
This commitment to sustainable mobility is another achievement of Forever Green, an initiative launched by Real Betis Balompié in the challenge of achieving zero emissions and reducing the carbon footprint caused by travelling to matches.
Post-covid mobility
The agreement includes new functionalities developed during the worst months of the pandemic so that fans will be able to receive real-time information on public transport occupancy levels, which will allow them to avoid crowds and feel safer when travelling by metro or bus.
Moovit now offers three occupancy levels: “available seats”, “standing only” and “very full” and this information will appear both in the details of the user’s planned journey and in the general information of stops, lines and favorites in the app.
On the other hand, fans will receive alerts and notifications that will always be visible on any screen of the app in the event of any situation arising from a health emergency or serious incident on mobility in the urban and metropolitan areas.
Commitment to sustainable mobility
Another fundamental factor of this agreement is to promote the use of sustainable transport both through the use of mass public transport and all micromobility options.
The use of personal mobility vehicles (PMVs), which has burst onto the urban space of so many cities, is mainly composed of low-speed, small and light means of transport that run on electric energy and are typically used in short-distance trips.
For Rafael Muela, manager of the Real Betis Balompié Foundation, “sustainable mobility is one of Forever Green’s areas of action on which we have been working since the beginning of the sustainability platform. Having a company as committed as Moovit as an ally will help us to ensure that our sporting events have a lower impact on the environment, encouraging our fans to access the Benito Villamarín Stadium in a sustainable way”
For his part, Manuel Molés, head of partnerships at Moovit in Europe, says that “it is very gratifying to see the commitment to sustainable mobility that the Forever Green initiative entails. The fact that a club like Real Betis Balompié is firmly committed to improving the travel of fans and, at the same time, to reducing the carbon footprint, is a milestone in the world of sport that we hope will serve as a reference for many other teams”.
About Forever Green
Forever Green Forever Green is a sustainability platform that harnesses the power of sports to protect the planet and be a spokesperson for those companies that want to show the world what they do for the environment. Members of this initiative commit to working towards the zero emissions challenge, undertaking joint actions that promote environmental care, and implementing measures to regenerate natural spaces affected by climate change. Among the projects already carried out are campaigns for recycling electrical and electronic waste, promoting sustainable transportation among employees and fans, creating a specific volunteer corps for Forever Green, cleaning days in natural environments, and participation in events such as the Climathon, or joining The Climate Pledge and the UN initiative ‘Climate Neutral Now’. Important sports entities such as the Spanish National Futsal League and the Mexican basketball first division team Abejas de León have also joined the Forever Green movement.
Moovit, an Intel company, is a leading provider of mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solutions and creator of the world’s leading urban mobility application that aims to simplify urban mobility around the world.
Moovit’s web, Android, and iOS app helps more than one billion users in more than 3,400 cities in 112 countries.
More than 100 cities and global events have considered Moovit as their official urban mobility app.
Moovit owns and operates the world’s largest repository of mobility data, accumulating six billion anonymized data points a day.
Cities, transport operators and industry leaders such as Microsoft, Uber and Cubic use licenses of Moovit products to improve urban mobility.
