View original post. Most people writing about MaaS (Mobility as a Service) are either trying to attract investors, promote their product, or demonstrate their personal foresight and innovative potential. Therefore, it’s not surprising that most articles focus on the positives and the opportunity of an imminent personal mobility revolution. Instead, for this article I thought I’d try to focus on some …

Here is a rundown of the top 10 most read articles on Mobility as a Service during July… 1. What’s driving the transportation revolution? Just look around. New car and bike-sharing businesses are entering the market at an incredible pace, while the anticipated arrival of autonomous vehicles will greatly impact the provisioning of transport services. In short, transport is undergoing …

View original post. The concept of Mobility as a Service (or MaaS) is well known in the transit industry. Generally understood as a vision of transportation that involves the integration of various forms and modes of transit, MaaS has been the subject of a heated debate for the last few years. Some industry leaders see it as a fad – …

Here is a rundown of the top 10 most read articles on Mobility as a Service during June… 1. MaaS Catalonia kicks off and launches the MaaS Manifesto Great attention and interest have been focused on MaaS in recent years, at European (notably, with the leading MaaS Alliance) and some national levels, but this has not yet replicated locally, in …

View original post. TO THOSE who have to squeeze onto the number 25 bus in London, or the A train in New York, the change might not be noticeable. But public transport is becoming less busy in those cities, and in others besides. Passenger numbers are flat or falling in almost every American metropolis, and in some Canadian and European …

View original post. Public and private sector collaboration is helping to shape the transport of tomorrow, says Brian Wong of Burges Salmon. Embedded into the government’s industrial strategy and key to its implementation are four ‘grand challenges’ – artificial intelligence and data, ageing society, clean growth and the future of mobility. These reflect seismic global trends and meeting these challenges is crucial …

View original post. This gives new meaning to ‘living out of your car.’ At the June 4 Radical Innovation briefing, real estate developer and compeition founder John Hardy unveiled two exciting new hotel concepts purposely designed for a future in which folks drive long distance travel in driverless cars. Now on its thirteenth year, the global competition seeks radical but plausible proposals for new …

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, …

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 …