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 that surpass …

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) is quite …

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 more toward the …

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 a pivotal …

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 to conquer …

Business travel for professionals is rapidly changing and 2019 will be an exciting year. Looking ahead, the pace of innovation will only continue to accelerate, fuelled by smarter technology, evolving employee expectations and an increasingly global economy. For many companies, business travel is no longer limited to finding the best flight and hotel options, but it is also ensuring the …

As you will know, business travelling can be a real mix of things. It can be exciting if you get to see different places around the world and meet new people through work. It can also be very tiring and boring, particularly if you do it regularly and prefer to be at home with your family and/or living in your …

As an industry on the brink of making technological innovations in 2019, many companies are emerging that have the potential to push Mobility into a new era of dominance in travel on a worldwide scale. Companies from all over the world are spearheading the movement towards a MaaS integrated future and many, in the future could work alongside each other …

We are starting to see a clear shift in the urban mobility landscape from private car ownership and usage to shared mobility use. A large part of that shift is underpinned by a few main trends that will impact our business mobility in the upcoming years. Population of cities the world over is growing exponentially – today around 54% of …

Telematics has more potential than simply tracking vehicles and managing fuel. It is the key enabler for the future of transportation, sharing-based mobility services and autonomous driving. Right now, the missing piece of the puzzle is that fleet owners and operators lack expertise in data management and analysis, which is required to deliver breadth of view and true business insight. …