View original post. Convenience is good – when it’s good for everyone. You’re a professional, you earn enough – if you could pay a little more each day to walk a shorter distance or avoid slow buses and cramped tubes, wouldn’t you?One company that plans to help is Ford, which just announced its new Chariot service. This uses its Transit …

View original post. Mobike, one of the participating providers of shared bicycles.Photo Qilai Shen / Bloomberg The use of single bikes is made easier. Customers will soon be able to rent a single bicycle at ten different providers with one account. Ten providers of part and rental bicycles in the Netherlands are going to work together. They want to make the use …

View original post. Seamless Integrated Mobility will see buses, trains and autonomous cars working in sync to reduce congestion Image: Reuters/Joe White Imagine you’re running late getting to an important meeting across town. It’s rush hour and a section of road has collapsed, wreaking havoc across the city. What are your options? In most transport systems, there wouldn’t be many …

View original post. For decades, many governments have tried to develop solutions to address traffic congestion, yet commute times continue to lengthen in most of America’s urban centers. It’s time for a new approach. The promise of smart mobility New business models inspired by the sharing economy and disruptive technologies are ushering in an exciting new age in transportation: the …

View original post. As the year comes to a close, we are looking back at 2017 and recounting all of the incredible things that have occurred in shared mobility and mobility as a whole. From the autonomous movement and beyond, here is our list of the top 8 mobility movements of the past year. 1. Autonomous bus pilot in Sion, Switzerland …

View original post. A new report by the International Transport Forum of transport optimisation in Auckland, New Zealand, suggests that shared mobility could signficantly reduce CO2 emissions in the city. Based on computer simulations of different shared mobility scenarios, the study shows that introducing ride sharing and Taxi-Bus services can also improve accessibility while lowering mobility costs and improving service …