View original post. At one of our meetups with the Young Urbanists. There was a discussion on the need to understand the influence of ideologies in design. The Young Urbanists is a platform for open dialogue, engagement and action aimed at solving historical and contemporary urban issues facing our cities. This prompt discussion got me thinking. It put into perspective much of the questions …

View original post. New business models such as Mobility-as-a-Service are estimated to gain traction with the integration of mobility alternatives, research from Frost & Sullivan finds… The overall car-sharing vehicle population is expected to rise from 2017’s figure of 983,000 to over 1.2 million in 2018, due to motorists’ desire to use alternative modes of transport, the rise in employee mobility options and …

View original post.They are cosmopolitan hubs connecting people from around the globe; crossroads for business, knowledge and economics; and even more, they are the summum of transportation. No wonder some airports are positioned nowadays at the forefront of innovative technology. Flying as a Service While Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is rising on the road, the importance of the passenger …

View original post. To get to the Uber conference on flying cars in Los Angeles last week, where I was scheduled to interview Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, I hailed a Lyft. My driver was understandably amused about where I was going. “Flying cars?” he said, laughing. “That makes more sense than the self-driving ones.” My driver was right: these days, …

View original post.From railroads to sewers to paved roads, cities must improve their infrastructure to avoid fading away. “Smart city” upgrades add a different dimension to the story. In 1911, Baltimore’s then-new sewer system was the envy of engineers and city planners around the world. At least that’s how the local papers described it. Finally, buildings could run their wastewater through …

View original post.Global urbanization is seemingly unstoppable, and with more and more citizens, the cost of living in cities is skyrocketing, threatening to increase social inequality, slow down economic growth and push up crime levels. Smart cities are said to provide the solution to this problem by implementing technology into city projects to help reduce costs. Technology has therefore brought …

View original post.We’re promised a future with driverless cars on our roads, but do people really trust the technology to take us safely on journeys? New research, published this month in the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, has found that we may be more willing to trust driverless cars in certain situations, but not so much in other cases. …

There was a total of 25,160 people killed or seriously injured because of a road traffic accident in the year ending September 2016. With 90% of accidents involving human error, it can be difficult to determine a long-term solution. Fortunately, it does not appear as though car manufacturers are ignoring these figures. Accident-prevention technology has come a long way in …

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 …

Here is a rundown of the top 10 most read articles on Mobility as a Service during April… 1. E-Mobility arrives in the UK Whim, which is also dubbed as the Spotify or Netflix of the transport world, integrates journey planning, reservaions, payments and subscriptions all into one app. It has currently launched in the West Midlands in the UK …