View original post. Innovations in the transport sector continue to introduce new opportunities to enhance travel experiences in our cities. The 2020s are predicted to be a decade of transformation for urban mobility. This is facilitated by business models that offer a range of new mobility services (ride hailing, car sharing, bike sharing and Netflix-like vehicle-subscription models) that provide flexible …

View original post. European cities are currently toying with various types of urban vehicle access restrictions. Though these cities mean well, such restrictions are burdensome and come at a cost for motorists, so smart mobility measures need to be proposed instead, writes Laurianna Krid. Across Europe, cities are beginning to put in place restrictions on cars accessing urban areas. Here, of …

View original post. The Los Angeles International Airport will install an automated passenger transport system (APM) after the closing of a contract worth just over 4,150 million euros with the Linxs business consortium for the design, construction, financing, start-up and maintenance of the system, which will have 44 automatic trains without driver. The consortium has awarded two contracts to strategic …

View original post. Technological trends and new mobility solutions could lead to a very different mobility ecosystem in the future. Customers expect mobility operators to provide services that are fast, reliable, convenient and personalized, as major developments have opened up a range of new options for individual mobility. Where urban mobility is today Arthur D. Little recently released the third …

View original post. European Cities: The Gold Standard Speak to any transport planner and they will tell you that European cities are considered to be the gold standard of good mobility. European policymakers understand that getting people out of cars improves mobility.. European cities were originally built to accommodate heavy foot traffic. After a century of ceding streets to motorcars …

View original post. Car usage in the capital is falling, but what’s replacing it? We run through some of the ways tech is affecting transport in London today. While Londoners used to be faced with a binary choice between car or public transport, new ways of getting around the capital have been cropping up. In London, the number of journeys made …

View original post. A number of innovative small business aircraft are on the drawing board, but the future of these projects depends on investors and their propensity for risk We’re on the cusp of the genesis of a new category of business travel, the ultra-short-haul market. Urban congestion is driving innovators to reach for the stars or at least as high as the …

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. We’re on the brink of a breakthrough in wireless technology: 5G mobile internet, which will put the speed of a fiber connection in everything from your smartphone to your car. Youngky Kim, the head of Samsung’s Networks Business, offers a glimpse of a truly connected world. Making Real Connections 5G has the potential to dramatically reshape our lives, from …

View original post. Advancements in AI, as well as Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, have made it possible for cities to increase efficiencies across services like transportation, water management, and healthcare. To do this, smart cities rely on interconnected devices to streamline and improve city services based on rich, real-time data. However, the fast adoption pace of networked technologies …