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FIA Region I Publishes its Manifesto for Mobility Ahead of European Elections

Ahead of the European elections, FIA Region I released its Manifesto for Mobility today, calling on EU decision-makers to prioritise the mobility user over the coming years. The Manifesto highlights...

Anything But Average: StreetLight Data CEO Laura Schewel on the Thinking Cities Interview

“Our mission is to help planners, states, counties and cities make better, faster and more cost-effective data-driven decisions,” says Laura Schewel, CEO and co-founder of StreetLight Data. “With the 2018...

Plugged In: Jaguar Land Rover Installs UK’s Largest Smart EV Charging Facility

Jaguar Land Rover has installed 166 smart charging outlets for electric vehicles at its Gaydon engineering centre. The outlets are for use by employees to encourage uptake of electric vehicles...

Swedish Transport Agency Approves Test Runs for Einride T-pod on Public Roads

In November 2018 Einride and DB Schenker – a global leading forwarder and logistics service provider – initiated the first installation of an autonomous, all-electric truck or “T-pod” at a...

NewMotion Reaches Major Charge Point Milestone

NewMotion is the first in the industry to have reached more than 100,000 charge points in its roaming charging network in Europe. The company works together with over 200 roaming...

Regional Bike Share Scheme Gains Momentum in UK

Unique opportunities to team up with the West Midlands pioneering bike share scheme are on offer to businesses and organisations. With 5,000 bikes coming to the streets of the West...

Cohda To Support Smart Pedestrian Crosswalk

Cohda Wireless has been selected by Bercman Technologies to provide the V2X hardware and software for its newly launched Smart Pedestrian Crosswalk solution. The system comprises high-tech electronic signage positioned...

StreetLight Data Delivers Accurate 2018 Traffic Counts for Nearly Every US Road

StreetLight Data, Inc, the leader in big data analytics for mobility, today launched Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) for 2018 on the StreetLight InSight® platform. Providing accurate, on-demand traffic volumes...

European Commission Announces Sustainable Mobility Award Nominees

The European Commission has revealed the finalists of the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Awards and the Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP). The EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Awards showcase local authorities that demonstrate significant efforts...

Finland Launches Autonomous Bus

Japanese lifestyle retailer MUJI and Finnish autonomous driving company Sensible 4 have launched GACHA, the first autonomous driving bus for all weather conditions today in Helsinki, Finland with a view...

Crete Expectations: Greek Island to be Emissions-Free by 2030

Greening the Islands Observatory & Crete Region will involve citizens in a new green growth strategy   Crete, one of Greece's top holiday destinations and battered by flooding last week, has...