View original post. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is seen as one of the Next Big Things in transportation, allowing people to seamlessly plan and pay for door-to-door multi-modal journeys. The well-publicised Lisbon Study predicted how the introduction of a fleet of shared vehicles into the city would affect traffic. It discovered that by replacing all car and bus journeys with ride-sharing …

View original post. Fleet Live 2018 will examine alternatives to the traditional company car, with an in-depth look at the future of mobility. Christoph Domke, a director in KPMG’s Global Strategy Group, considers mobility to be a new industry, with the power and momentum to shake-up personal, fleet and freight transport in the same way that mobile phones transformed personal communication, …

View original post. A revolution in business mobility is just around the corner. Craig Thomas looks at what we can expect to help us travel more efficiently. “Alexa, what’s the quickest way to get to my meeting this morning?” This is going to be the kind of question many of us will be asking our digital assistants in our smart …

View original post. Mobility technology company Fleetondemand have developed major new capabilities to its core rental management and ground transportation technology. The 18-month development and investment has been designed to broaden the capability of the technology across wider connected automotive asset business models for both business and consumer mobility markets. A mobile-firstmobility experience for users can now be driven via a single automatic …

View original post. Paul Hollick believes in professional fleet management and is determined to make ICFM qualifications the recognised standard. Stephen Briers reports Fleet decision-makers and those with direct influence over policy and strategy have never faced such a jumble of complexity, confusion and rapid-paced change. From once being responsible solely for managing cars, their focus migrated to managing the …

View original post. Sharing is the future of mobility. Quite appropriately, the principle of car-sharing itself is increasingly shared – with different providers, wider applications, new geographies. A sampler.  With its struggling automotive market and infrastructural problems, Russia is an unlikely source of mobility innovation. Nevertheless, the car-sharing capital of Europe is… Moscow. Traffic jams The Russian capital was recently …

View original post. Toyota Connected has announced the launch of a new startup division, dubbed Toyota Connected Europe (TCEU). The division will be focused on the launch and support of new shared mobility services and fleet management solutions in the region. The new Toyota Connected Europe startup will be based out of London (UK) and will see Toyota Motor Europe’s …

View original post.When fleet and leasing management software company Sofico first came into existence 30 years ago, motor vehicles were manufactured with a manual choke and Petrol in many countries across Europe was less than 0.5 Euros a litre.  A lot has changed since then, not least the number of vehicles on Europe’s roads, congestion in towns and cities, environmental …

It’s hard to ignore the growing popularity of the electric vehicle market. In fact, 2017 was a record year for new registrations catapulting them into the spotlight, even more so now that the diesel and petrol cars have been branded significantly harmful for the environment. With air pollutions levels high throughout the UK, the government has committed to plans to …

View original post.Car-sharing provider DriveNow is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BMW Group after its acquisiton of the Sixt stake was approved by antitrust authorities. Sebastian Hofelich, managing director of DriveNow, said: “The decision of the BMW Group to take over the Sixt stake is a clear commitment to DriveNow and a strong affirmation of our work to date. “The BMW …