How two cities are integrating comprehensive planning with electrification efforts to ensure their urban centres evolve and serve the needs of communities.
With our urban centres continually growing and evolving, cities are increasingly focusing on transformative mobility solutions that integrate comprehensive planning with electrification efforts. These some of the themes we’ve been exploring in this week’s SmartCitiesWorld news.
Shared Mobility Infrastructure becomes the Lynchpin of Future Transport Roadmaps as Cities Push for Smart, Safe, and Sustainable Mobility
Frost & Sullivan carries out comprehensive, in-depth analysis of 20 leading countries in the world to understand who is ready from an economic, competitive, and regulatory perspective for a future of shared, multi-modal mobility.
Read more: Future Transport Roadmaps For Smart, Safe, & Sustainable Mobility
How cities old and new are using AI at the edge to tackle traffic, public safety, pollution, sustainability and more
After two years of collective confinement, the world's population rushed outdoors with a passion. People want to go further, faster, to more places: to work, on vacation, to see the world, do more, be more, see more. However, this resurgence in mobility comes at a cost.
Estimates indicate that traffic levels are back to pre-COVID levels in many cities around the world and in some cases even higher. Drivers in some of the world's largest cities are spending hundreds of extra hours and thousands of extra dollars sitting in unrelenting traffic, according to a report published by Bloomberg last year.
Read more: Urban mobility transformation enhances the “Fast” but removes the “Furious”
Nicole LeBlanc, a partner at Toyota’s investment arm, Woven Capital, is optimistic about the talent and innovation coming to cities.
The future is often forged from ideas that only a few are aware of in their early stages: Think Uber, Apple, Tesla. To look far down the road on mobility, Smart Cities Dive spoke with the $800 million investment arm of Toyota Motor Corp., Woven Capital. It’s a “hands-on investor” with a global mandate, said Nicole LeBlanc, a partner at Woven Capital focusing on mobility, sustainability and smart city investments.
Read more: What’s next for mobility innovation? This venture capitalist has some ideas.
The vast majority of transit riders expect transport operators to offer open loop, contactless payments, according to a global passenger survey by Visa.
More than half of public transit riders (51 per cent) use four or more different payment methods a month for their travel, according to a global survey by digital payments specialist Visa.
Read more: The growing case for mobility-as-a-service on public transit