Electric Buses Are Finally Catching On In America
Behind the tsunami of electric cars hitting the road, a much quieter transformation is taking place—buses are starting to turn electric. Travelling by bus is already one of the easiest and most effective ways to fight climate change. By substituting a passenger car...
Autoliv: Beyond Motorist’s Safety
The Business of Mobility is an Urban Mobility Weekly series that highlights some of the most successful businesses in the mobility sector. In this article, Pernilla Arnell and Laurent Lamothe, introduce Autoliv, a company with a 70-year history of automotive safety....
Bike Lanes Made of Solar Panels. Really!
Cycling is already one of the most sustainable methods of getting from A to B that there is. But one municipality in the Netherlands decided to take that a step further when, in 2015, it built a bike path that actually generates energy. Engineers in Krommenie, about...
The Other Tour de France: Biking along the French border in the Pandemic (Part 2)
This is Part II of cyclist Antoine Podvin’s adventurous 34 day bike journey along France’s border. Read about his personal experience and his reflections on the challenges of integrating inter-modality in France. In case you missed Part I, you can read it here...
Reimagining Berlin: A City for People
Until the accident on September 2019, Invalidenstraße in Berlin-Mitte was a fairly safe street. And then, on 6 September 2019, a man drove his SUV into a group of people standing on the sidewalk killing four of them including a four-year-old boy and his grandmother....
Reducing Carbon Emissions Means Reducing Car Ownership
During our short pause, UMW received plenty of suggstions on topics and issues that our readers would like to see us tackle. One of the issues that commanded most attention is the way that cities are implementing solutions to reduce the encironmental impact of...
The Other Tour de France: Biking along the French border in the Pandemic
Antoine Podvin rides the 6200 kilometers of French border and tells us about it
