End subsidies for parking before they kill us Parking subsidies – for city residents and for visitors – adversely impact a city’s air pollution, the
Collectively intelligent: Prioritising safety in autonomous systems design
Recent Uber and Tesla crashes (that led to the respective deaths of a pedestrian and a driver) continue a debate about the merits and
What do milk, diesel, and electric vehicles all have in common?
In 2017, the US state of Georgia revoked a $5,000 electric vehicle (EV) incentive program, and instead imposed the country’s highest extra fee for registering an
Smart Mobility and the Power of People
(Lukas Neckermann, Managing Director of Neckermann Strategic Advisors, interviewed by David Hunt, Managing Partner of Hyperion Executive Search. This article was first published January 26th
Autonomous Driving Index
Over the last few months, I have had the pleasure of collaborating with consulting firm Progenium in creating the first, comprehensive Autonomous Driving Index. We
Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
Sampo Hietanen is CEO and Founder of MaaS Global – the Finnish company behind Whim, a mobile app that allows you to travel via
Smart Cities, Smart Mobility: Success is not a coincidence
Since writing The Mobility Revolution in 2014, I have been living, breathing, thinking and consulting about the three core topics that make up smart mobility:
The End of “Default Car”
By now it should be blatantly obvious: We are moving toward environmentally-friendly, productivity-enhancing, electric, autonomous and shared vehicles. “Default Car” – the notion that the personal car
Mobility-as-a-Service goes global
I’ve said it before, the age of “default car” is dead. Urban-dwellers and millennials are choosing apps over steering wheels. Citymapper, Moovel, Moovit, Ally App,
Utility Mobility, or Sheer Driving Pleasure
Several weeks ago, BMW unveiled its concepts for connected and shared mobility at an event in London’s Roundhouse. At the presentation, Board Member Peter Schwarzenbauer confided that