View original post.If developed properly, Mobility as a Service can offer the answer to the mobility problems of tomorrow, from air pollution to traffic congestion. To deploy its full potential, the parameters should be set right from the beginning. One of those parameters is the creation of closed versus open ecosystems. User-centric In its analyses, MaaS Alliance, the public-private partnership …

View original post.Business travel company Corporate Travel Management (CTM) has confirmed it has made an offer for the travel arm of business process outsourcing company Capita Plc. Following media speculation, Capita confirmed to investors earlier this week that it had received an unsolicited offer for its travel business from CTM. “Given the stage of discussions, which are ongoing, there is …

View original post.Nearly a decade ago, Google bought travel software company ITA. ITA was the company behind the reservations systems for many major airlines and travel sites such as Kayak, Orbitz, Hotwire and many others. At the time of the acquisition, Google said it wanted to create new kinds of online travel experiences that “solve end user problems” and “look different” from existing tools, …

View original post. Editor’s note: the author is the founder of Hart Solutions LLC;, and was previously Acting Chairman and Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (2014-2017). On August 30, 2017, I published an article in TheDrive about lessons that the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry could learn from decades of automation experience in aviation. In that article, I note …

View original post.Have you ever wondered what impact your business air travel has on the environment? Each time you fly, harmful greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are released into the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. The fastest way to travel is very damaging to the environment. Fortunately, there are ways to reduce the carbon footprint you leave on the world, …

View original post.With effective travel programs becoming an increasingly critical element of business strategies, travel management companies are facing mounting pressure from a diverse group of customer stakeholders seeking guidance on balancing cost, compliance, traveler satisfaction and security. Simultaneously, shifts in the preferences of modern business travelers and travel managers have sparked a need for personalized products and consumer technologies …

View original post.This post is in association with moovel moovel’s vision is “a world without traffic jams”. Its solutions and apps are helping to simplify urban mobility and encourage people to switch to shared modes of transport in cities including Stuttgart, Los Angeles and Karlsruhe. Leon Rizzi, Chief Sales Officer, moovel, shares his insights on Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). SCW: Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) …

View original post. Research finds that programming driverless cars ahead of time inspires a person to move away from egocentric decision-making. There has been much speculation about how the coming wave of self-driving cars will change our lives. New research offers a welcome possibility: This new technology may prompt us to shift our thinking away from our own desires, and …

View original post.In attempts to promote the growth of Mobility as a Service into a world-wide scale, revolutionary product many countries are openly supporting the development of MaaS technologies and by doing so have become world-leaders in mobility. One such country is Spain, even going so far as to being home of Mobile World Capital until 2023, Barcelona. Being such …

View original post.In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every city, and you’ll get an almost universal answer: Not anytime soon. An optimistic assessment is 10 years. Many others say decades as researchers try …