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Now For Plan A

MaaS is a huge part of Madrid’s plan for shared and multimodal mobility initiatives, says Michel Arnd and Sergio Fernandez Balaguer   In the past few years, Madrid has struggled...

Can We Talk?

Suzanne Hoadley of Polis talks to Brigitte Desveaux, Councillor and Vice-President of La Rochelle in charge of Transport and Mobility   Suzanne Hoadley: La Rochelle has a history of piloting...

Making A Big Deal Out of Mobility

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham on how his 2040 Transport Strategy is piloting his city-region’s journey to sustainable, smart status   Greater Manchester is growing. We are creating more...

Smart Cities Lab – The Global Think Tank

FIWARE: the open source component framework of choice for smart cities, by Olaf-Gerd Gemein   Cities have to cope with similar problems everyday (eg, ageing society and elderly people, inclusion,...

Meeting of the Minds: The Value of Analytics in Smart Parking

By Thomas Hohenacker The concept of sophisticated, real time analytics may have been confusing people in years past, but it's no secret that they have proliferated today's society in a...

Bigger Isn’t Always Better, says Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership

A new study by Ricardo for the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) aims to push the boundaries of knowledge of Life Cycle Assessment, an increasingly important area of research in...

Chaos in Megacities: Digital Licence Plates Prevent Traffic Jams and Smog

The United Nations has classified Tokyo, Delhi and Shanghai as the most heavily populated cities in the world. Economic growth in Asian regions is attracting lots of people from provinces...

Ready for e-Mobility: INIT at InnoTrans 2018

‘Ready for e-mobility’ is the theme at INIT’s showcase at InnoTrans 2018, the international trade show for transport technology taking place from 18 to 21 September in Berlin. The world’s...

Three Benefits of Mobilising Bike-Share Data and Journey Planners

By Johan Herrlin, CEO of Ito World It is now ten years since the launch of the world’s first large scale bike-sharing scheme, Velib in Paris. Since then, a thousand...

How to outsmart the smart city

With the release of IBM's The Dangers of Smart City Hacking White Paper, IBM X-Force Red's Research Director Daniel Cowley provides a fascinating insight into a topic that is becoming...

EVs: Could They Help Rescue Our Ailing Retail Sector?

by Ian Johnston, CEO of Engenie The National Grid has estimated that by 2030, there will be 9 million electric vehicles on UK roads. In 2017 alone, sales of alternatively...