Why can’t everyone telework?

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Telework has been broadly adopted globally during the pandemic. It will also become a key component of the post-pandemic work environment, providing benefits to both employees and employers. To the employee, it will give flexibility, offer a better work experience, but also comfort related to the new safety norms being […]
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  • 15 September 2020
    September 15, 2020
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The Role of Cities in New Mobility

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Cities, and more broadly metropolitan areas, are the laboratories where many next-generation mobility concepts and technologies are being tested, and where the transformation of transportation will first become evident. Metropolitan areas are key to the success of new mobility. They are the centers where people choose to coexist in close […]
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The Urban Transportation Wallet

Next-generation mobility
New urban mobility will emerge as a result of this transformation. New urban mobility will be a shift to the movement of consumers and goods provided as a service using vehicles of various form factors. In this piece I discuss what cities need to do in order to reap the advantages of new mobility and introduce the consumer’s urban transportation wallet as a composite metric for assessing a metropolitan area’s progress towards Mobility as a Service (MaaS).
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BEFORE REGULATING NEXT-GENERATION MOBILITY DATA, WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT DATA

Big Data
The congressional and European Parliament testimonies of Facebook’s CEO focused attention on Internet and ecommerce corporations and startups whose business models rely on the collection and exploitation of big data, with personal data being a major component. Legislators and the public at large came to realize a) the leverage such […]
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Five Categories of On-Demand Mobility Services Companies

Autonomous Vehicles, Next-generation mobility
On-Demand Mobility Services, and particularly ride-hailing, have emerged as a strong option for consumer urban transportation. In the process, ride-hailing has disrupted the taxi and limo industries and could next disrupt public transportation and last-mile goods delivery. Nowhere is this more evident than in cities such as New York and […]
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Five Categories of Auto OEMs Resulting from Next-Generation Mobility

Autonomous Vehicles, Next-generation mobility
In early November 2017, Waymo announced that while it will continue its tests in Washington, California, and Texas, it was ready to start ferrying consumers in its fleet of driverless minivans in Chandler, Arizona. Later the same month GM presented their roadmap for autonomous vehicles and details about the mobility services […]
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