Carsharing Market Analysis: Growth and Industry Analysis
Carsharing Market analysis & Growth
The latest carsharing industry analysis provided by UC Berkley’s TSRC show that in October 2016 carsharing was operational on all continents except Antarctica. TSRC estimated that there were carsharing organizations...
Omoove’s Mobility Revolution
Octavian Chelu, principal consultant, AT&T, Frost & Sullivan, explained how important cities and megacities have become. Today, 54% of the global population lives in cities, a figure that is expected to increase to 67%...
Managing the Transition to Shared Automated Vehicles: Building Today While Designing for Tomorrow
By Susan Shaheen and Adam Cohen
We often get asked questions from urban planners, policymakers, and real estate professionals asking how they should prepare for the future of mobility, today. Some are architects and developers...
MIT’s Super-Efficient Dispatching Algorithm Minimizes a City’s Taxi Fleet
By Philip E. Ross
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Researchers at MIT say they’ve found an efficient dispatching algorithm that can cut a city’s fleet of taxis by 30 percent.
They describe their work in a paper published today in Nature.
“New York...
Going Beyond Park Boundaries to Make Cities More Livable
By Catherine Nagel and Thatcher Bailey
Parks and recreation drive real solutions to the big challenges facing American cities. They are powerful agents helping communities address financial stability, environmental threats, and social isolation, just to...
Zipcar Carsharing Case Study
Zipcar’s Organizational Overview
Zipcar is a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group which acquired it in 2013. Originally Zipcar was founded by Antje Danielson and Robin Chase in 2000. Zipcar’s famous tagline: “Wheels when you...
Uber – The New Wave!
Convenience has taken a whole new dimension in the transportation sector. With a smartphone, internet access, and a bank account (all of which you must have right now), you can have a driver take...
BMW and Daimler merge their mobility companies
Mercedes-Benz and BMW have been the fiercest of rivals for more than a hundred years. Now, they’re teaming up to pursue the future of mobility together. In a surprise announcement, Daimler and BMW revealed plans...
Claims in the digital age: How insurers can get started
By Pia Brüggemann, Tanguy Catlin, Jonas Chinczewski, Johannes-Tobias Lorenz, and Samantha Prymak.
The insurance industry is in the midst of a radical, digitally infused shake-up. Customers are embracing digital channels, and technologies such as the...
P2P carsharing and the evolution of private mobility
P2P carsharing: Valerio Sandri, TEDxCopenhagenSalon:
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Valerio tells us how car sharing solves a list of practical problems common to all...
