View original post.“You’re going to take our cars away!?” You might yell that, in disbelief, after reading the title of this article. And yet, in twenty to thirty years, people will voluntarily give their cars away, in favor of a radically different model of transport: mobility as a service. Several key technologies have recently emerged, which industry analysts believe will …

View original post. The President and CEO of Travelport, Gordon Wilson, highlighted today the developments in technology shaping the travel industry. Speaking in Atlanta at The Beat Live, Mr. Wilson cited the progress made already in enabling airlines to merchandise their content to travel agency and corporate travel channels, the speed at which new airline products can be introduced – …

View original post. What MaaS in Europe really looks like In the smart cities of the future, MaaS will play a vital role. However, with so much uncharted territory still ahead of us, deciding how to make that future a reality means looking at what is working, the common challenges, and whether MaaS can truly deliver. In our next few …

View original post.There is a compelling argument that the travel industry invented ecommerce. In the early 1960s, American Airlines started working with IBM to find a way to use the latest technology to automate airline inventory and reservations. The first airline computer reservation system was launched and the travel technology industry was born. Some 60 years later and the travel …

View original post.While self-driving technology is still in its infancy, passengers are quickly coming to trust their cars to operate without them. Tesla owners play games and even sleep as their cars drive themselves, and Alphabet-owned Waymo even made an ad showing passengers in the backseat of its autonomous minivan yawning and taking selfies. But taking your eyes off the …

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.Home to over five million people, Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, is the largest city in Australia. And with the average cost of a house in Sydney tipping AU$1 million last year — second in price only to Hong Kong — the state government needs to facilitate a way for people to work in the city …

View original post. An autonomous car project will attempt a complex journey across the UK, taking in country roads and high-speed roundabouts. The HumanDrive initiative will first simulate a range of conditions, before the car starts its 200-mile (320km) journey in December 2019. The UK wants to get driverless cars on the road by 2021. But it is facing stiff …

View original post Back last year, the UK Parliament announced it was opening an inquiry into Mobility as a Service and how it could be applied to help reduce congestion, improve health and be rolled out across the population. The Transport Committee opened up submissions for evidence from experts and companies in the industry in the hope that they could collect as …

View original post.While autonomous vehicles were a big deal at this year’s CES 2018 in Las Vegas, it was also time to roll out the latest and greatest of the future of mobility in the form of crazy concept cars. These concept cars represent the latest technology and ideas from automotive and aerospace OEMs that may not exactly be ready …