Micro(car)mobility: Can ‘Microcars’ Accelerate the Next Wave of Shared Mobility?
By Venkatesh Gopal, Business Development and Partnerships Manager, Movmi Shared mobility as we all know has come a long way over the past decades. From conventional public transit buses to remote-controlled e-scooters, the space has forever been evolving to cover all...
The Business of Mobility: Smart Mobility Data Platforms for Cities
By Christophe Arnaud, CEO, Blue Systems The Business of Mobility is an Urban Mobility Company series highlighting some of the most successful new businesses in the mobility sector. Featuring a closer look at the way in which companies stand out, CEOs, Directors and...
Accessibility as a metric for mobility management
By Marcos Paulo Schlickmann. Originally published in Portuguese at Caos Planejado on January 18, 2021 Accessibility is a concept that can be defined as the number of destinations that someone can reach - or access - in a given period of time. These destinations can be...
All the Major Mobility Announcements at CES 2021
By Marc Amblard, Founder & Managing Director, Orsay Consulting CES went digital for obvious reasons this year. I missed the serendipity associated with strolling up and down alleys of startups and wandering around corporate booths. It was much more difficult to...
9 Key Urban Mobility Trends in 2021: Show Me the Money!
By Josep Laborda, CEO & Managing Partner, FACTUAL It’s the end of the world as we know It (and we at Factual feel fine!) Nothing is more fitting today than this old R.E.M. song of the eighties, arguably the official anthem of 2020, the year when the corona crisis...
The Secret to Post-pandemic Sustainable Mobility? Design for Women
By Kelly Saunders, Gender and Mobility Specialist It is obvious as this Covid-19 pandemic wears on that transport is being repositioned – both in our minds and our lives. Changeable travel restrictions and new virus strains are reshaping our mobility psychology....
OEMs Double Down as EVs Hit Tipping Point
By Marc Amblard, Founder & Managing Director, Orsay Consulting CO2 regulations and the on-going crisis have caused the market penetration of plug-in vehicles (EVs) to accelerate in 2020. This is particularly the case in Europe where EVs are likely to represent...
Three Mobility and Smart Cities Predictions for 2021
By Scott Shepard, Chief Business Officer, Iomob Technologies 1. Micromobilty Market Consolidation in Europe Given the speed and timing of COVID, there has been a rapid transformation in the European micromobility market. According to recent news stories and press...
Why Can’t Anyone Build a Thriving and Sustainable MaaS Business?
By Andy Boenau, Founder, Speakeasy Media If Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is such a great idea, how come it’s not a thriving business model yet? There are two types of transport technology professionals: those who have asked that question, and those who don’t admit...
Can Shared Mobility Bridge the ‘Last-mile’ in the Delivery Business?
By Venkatesh Gopal, Business Development and Partnerships Manager, Movmi COVID-19-Lockdown-Stay home-Physical distancing-Online shopping-Demand for delivery. The above set of words sum up most of 2020. With the physical world of retail becoming less accessible, the...
MaaS Operational Frameworks and Use Cases
By Scott Shepard, Chief Business Officer, Iomob Technologies Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has been receiving quite a bit of attention lately. Stakeholders, investors, operators, and the general public have become quite familar with the concept of MaaS. However, many...
The Top 10 Urban Mobility Daily Articles of 2020
Compiled by Stephanie Hagen, Director of Content, Autonomy & the Urban Mobility Company Last year we exclaimed that 2019 could be crowned as the year of M&M — MaaS & Microbility — and predicted that these trends would continue to take cities by storm in...
The Business of Mobility: Why Developers Will Drive the Future of Shared Mobility
This article was written by Alexander Gmelin on The Urban Mobility Daily. The Business of Mobility is a new Urban Mobility Company series highlighting some of the most successful new businesses in the mobility sector. Featuring a closer look at the way in which...
Key Takeaways From the Virtual Workshop “OEMS Now or Never: How to Embrace New Mobility”
By Rebecca Sands, Content & Project Manager at Autonomy & the Urban Mobility Company Click here to watch a recording of “OEMS Now or Never: How to Embrace New Mobility” held in partnership with Siemens Advanta Consulting. In recent years, automotive OEMs have...
The Future of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) : Which Model Will Win Through?
By Mehdi Essaidi, Vice-President at Capgemini, Claire Duthu, Manager at Capgemini Invent and Ross Douglas CEO & founder of Autonomy This article contains key findings from the Point of View White Paper ‘The Future of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) : Which Model Will...
4 Archetypes for Automotive OEMs to Position Themselves in the New Mobility Market
By Philipp Grosse Kleimann, Senior Partner & Global Head of Automotive & New Mobility, Siemens Advanta Consulting How often do you get a second chance in life? Automotive OEMs have always been strong in professionalizing their traditional business model,...
Is Multimodal MaaS Just for Big Cities?
By Venkatesh Gopal, Business Development and Partnerships Manager, Movmi MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service) is a well known term in the transportation space today and one of the elements which this commonly relates to is access and not ownership of mobility modes. It could...
Going Full Electric: The e-Motorcycle Experience
By Marc Amblard, Founder & Managing Director, Orsay Consulting As a longtime motorcycle enthusiast, I thought I would share my own experience going full electric. Three years ago, I leased a Chevrolet Bolt, with its EPA range of 238 mile range from a 60 kWh...