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.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 …

View original post. The technology to create seamless or connected multimodal transportation exists, but many services are still being delivered to the end customer in a disconnected, piecemeal way. A journey to and from the airport might involve switching from a bus to a taxi and then the airplane, with tickets purchased for each separate stage from the different transport …

View original post.Expert says the automotive industry is due for a complete shake-up. We live in a very different world to that of our grandparents. Among many things, we’ve seen a shift towards a subscription economy, where you no longer have to purchase something to use it. According to cloud-subscription specialists Zuora, the automotive industry is one such sector that …

View original post. Going by plane is probably the best way to travel long distances in a relatively short amount of time. But what if air travel was also an option for shorter distances? Let’s say to commute to work every day. Or to visit a friend that lives at the other end of the town. Wouldn’t it be great …

View original post. The spectre of our cities choking with unhealthy air has prompted numerous governments to mandate a transition to electric cars. Their concerns are well founded, even if their proposals fall short of what is needed. Over the past four decades, cars have become far less polluting. Their fuel efficiency has practically doubled and their tailpipe emissions have …