View original post. The race continues globally between big businesses to partner up with tech firms to introduce a new ripple in the wave of payments technology. Here’s a roundup of the latest news of companies test-driving new advancements in mobile payments and what some of these developments could mean for SMEs. Mobility-as-a-service in Singapore Mobility-as-a-service technology incubator, mobilityX, is looking to develop …

View original post. Reinventing future mobility in the era of disruption and creativity The mobility landscape is being completely reshaped, and urban mobility poses a massive challenge to metropolitan authorities and businesses as well as great opportunities. The global demand for passenger mobility in urbanized areas is set to double by 2050. Meanwhile, the number of individual journeys taken on …

View original post. I’m continuing my series looking at digital transformation trends in various industries. Previous focus has been on trends in sectors such as healthcare, retail, finances and media and entertainment. Today, I’ll discuss how digital transformation has revolutionized the automotive industry. By 2020, growing digitalization and advancements in technology will have increased the automotive industry investments to $82 billion. The automotive industry has …

View original post. Four leading international experts on Mobility as a Service (MaaS) concepts and deployments have told the UK government that they should consider following the Finnish example, where a new law obligates transportation providers to share data. The four experts, participating in a public inquiry held by the House of Commons Transport Committee at the UK parliament in …

View original post. Blockchain. It’s vast, it’s complicated, and it’s having a moment right now. At its most basic, blockchain is a global distributed database capable of running on millions of devices. As the Harvard Business Review recently wrote, blockchain is “open to anyone, where not just information but anything of value – money, titles, deeds… intellectual property, and even …

View original post. The term mobility as a service (MaaS) has been the hot issue these days, and the reasons behind are 5G networks, V2X communications and mobile edge-cloud computing. Once intelligent Maas is realized, public transit vehicles like city buses will be able to collect and make sense of massive amounts of data from a huge array of sources, …

1) The bike sharing revolution will enter its next phase Over the last twelve months we’ve seen a number of dockless bike sharing companies make a concerted move on the Europe market. Ofo, Mobike and oBike might not be household names yet, but they have bold ambitions and plenty of capital behind them. So what will the next twelve months …

British drivers are familiar with roadworks and temporary speed limits up and down the country — and the majority of drivers are aware of the frustration it can cause. For some businesses who rely on the roads to get from job to job, roadworks and temporary speed limits can slow down their progression, meaning that they are limited to how …

While the majority of transport leaders feel technology is having a positive impact on the industry and their organisations, little over half feel fully prepared for technological change… Forward-thinking transport companies in Britain will look to robotics, AI and biometrics in the next 12 months to alter and improve efficiency in the transport landscape, according to new research by Fujitsu. …

View original post. It’s the latest tech hype, and it’s coming to mobility: decentralised applications built on blockchain have the potential to profoundly disrupt an industry – transport and mobility – that is already being hit by a “digital tsunami”, as Sampo Hietanen, MaaS Global CEO, often pitches in his conferences. In cities, consumer habits are more and more shifting …