View original post. Integrated and digitised public transport systems have the potential to ease traffic gridlock and cut journey times Public transport authorities are increasingly looking to embrace innovative technology to meet user expectations and enable travellers to personalise their journeys. Since the Oyster travel card was launched in 2003 by Transport for London, contactless bank cards, smartphones and smartwatches are now …

View original post. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a proposed solution to ongoing transportation issues that can positively impact urban centers in pretty significant ways. Many travelers in metropolitan areas are currently using more than one mode of transportation during their daily commute. No surprise there. As just one example, commuters may take a bus to the train station before catching the …

View original post. An introduction to VMC GO — The perfect marketplace for human mobility In this post we explain how our infrastructure enables these rights for both users and providers of Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Whereas several private and centralized attempts to unlock these rights have failed, a decentralized approach won’t. Mobility is a public service as much as …

View original post. Ride-hailing services might seem like a money-saving alternative to buying a car for people who live in urban areas. But according to a new study, it’s not nearly as cost-effective as you’d think. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that using ride-hailing services like Lyft and Uber as a primary mode of transportation works out to be far …

View original post. Public and private sector collaboration is helping to shape the transport of tomorrow, says Brian Wong of Burges Salmon. Embedded into the government’s industrial strategy and key to its implementation are four ‘grand challenges’ – artificial intelligence and data, ageing society, clean growth and the future of mobility. These reflect seismic global trends and meeting these challenges is crucial …

View original post. Car usage in the capital is falling, but what’s replacing it? We run through some of the ways tech is affecting transport in London today. While Londoners used to be faced with a binary choice between car or public transport, new ways of getting around the capital have been cropping up. In London, the number of journeys made …

View original post. A number of innovative small business aircraft are on the drawing board, but the future of these projects depends on investors and their propensity for risk We’re on the cusp of the genesis of a new category of business travel, the ultra-short-haul market. Urban congestion is driving innovators to reach for the stars or at least as high as the …

View original post. Mobility as a Service platforms like Mobilleo are game changing technology providers to businesses as they can help identify the total cost of mobility. For too long, the total and true cost of business mobility has been an arduous task to calculate – collating receipts, expenses and emails across an entire organisation is a soulless task. Too often, businesses only …

View original post. Driverless cars Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in the autumn budget that the UK government will contribute half of a £400 million investment in driverless cars, proving they’re not going to quietly disappear from the spotlight as some technology has a habit of doing. And they could be good news – a panel of ground transportation experts at …

View original post. As a general rule, travel moves in slow, easy to predict waves. There are smaller spikes around certain occasions (Easter, Thanksgiving), but for the majority, people travel for leisure around Christmas time and in the summer. If only business travel was so simple. From different geographies and industries through to the budgets and compliance needs of individual …