Five Promises of Micromobility
Posted by florentcrivello
Disclaimer: I’m a product manager at Uber. This piece represents my views only, and not those of people working on behalf of Uber.
A wave of electric scooters and bikes has been taking...
How DC’s ridesharing saves money, reduces congestion
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
A new ridesharing program set up by the Washington, D.C., Department of Public Works (DPW) aims to reduce the number of cars on the congested roads of the nation’s capital and the...
Mobility on demand market to surpass usd 200 billion by 2024
Global Mobility on Demand Market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $100 billion to over $200 billion by 2024; according to a new research report by Global Market...
With new mobility options, Detroit goes multimodal
By David Sands
It's a chilly Thursday night in late January, and Detroiter Tamara Ballinger is waiting for a bus at DDOT's Rosa Parks Transit Center. The 21-year-old college student and fast food worker is...
The road to tomorrow (and the selfdriving vehicles)
Written byDerek Prall
Imagine this – instead of waking up an hour early to start your arduous commute to work, fighting traffic the whole way, you hail a car as you’re getting ready using your...
The chinese are coming
By Michael Dunne
China's January light vehicle numbers are in -- and they are not pretty.
(Except for electric cars. But more on that in a minute).
Overall light vehicle sales declined a stunning 18 percent year-on-year.
January...
Rental car companies need to evolve now, or they will die
By Rob Cosentino
There’s a scene in the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles where Steve Martin’s character, Neal, is dropped off in the middle of a rental car lot, looking for a car that isn’t there.
By the...
E-scooters and E-bikes are redefining urban transportation
By guest author Anil Niraula.
You might have already seen people whooshing by on e-scooters and e-bikes on the sidewalks of your city. The flood of dockless transport has caught many, including policymakers, off guard....
Importance of mobility data in making cities smarter
By Mahashreveta Choudhary
As we move towards the age of digitalization, data is being rightly called the ‘king’, as it is essential for taking better and informed decisions. With smart cities becoming the buzzword, the significance of data has...
Automakers expand connected car ecosystem with payment technologies
By David Jones
As integrated payments technology continues to evolve and internet of things technology expands the automation of voice control and natural language, the auto industry is increasingly looking at mobile purchasing as another key...
