Connect . Automate . Inspire
According to a recent report published by Euromonitor, 2025 will be a crucial year for the automotive and mobility industry, with sustainability, digital transformation and shared mobility services shaping business strategies. These trends are best illustrated by the many new startups emerging in this space.
Read more “Clean Mobility Startups Shaping 2025”
In alignment with the visionary directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, aimed at broadening the scope of Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) and bolstering Dubai’s ambition to become the smartest city in the world, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has embarked on the study and design of Phase II of the ITS Improvement and Expansion Project.
The future is nowish. Popular automakers — including BMW & Toyota — are racing to get their new flying car models on the market with a new age of travel on the precipice of taking off. The new category of aircraft has been termed eVTOL — which is an acronym for “electric vertical take-off and landing,” in reference to the way the vehicles are able to fly.
eVTOLs take off and land vertically and have the ability to hover — making them more akin to helicopters than cars or planes.
There is a wide range of concepts presented by the different companies with each modeling their own version of the future of air travel.
As the global mobility landscape races towards a smarter, cleaner future, Bridgestone and its award-winning fleet management solution, Webfleet, are revving up at MOVE 2025 to spotlight cutting-edge innovations that promise to reshape the future of connected, electric, and data-driven mobility.
Toyota Motor and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) plan to invest a total 500 billion yen ($3.27 billion) by 2030 into an infrastructure and software platform using artificial intelligence to reduce traffic accidents.
The automaker and telecommunications firm said in a joint statement on Thursday they want to develop a mobility AI platform that uses large amounts of data to support driver assist technology, aiming to have a system ready by 2028.
“This initiative will reduce the time between aircraft arrival and the start of baggage return to contribute to major groundbreaking in labour and workforce efficiency in ground handling operations” Company RepresentativeSource: FutureTransport-News
Commuters in downtown Barcelona will be able to ride the bus for free soon. There’s just one catch: this mini-bus has no one at the wheel. The bus pulls away from the stop with its passengers on its own, brakes before changing lanes and eases down one of Barcelona’s most fashionable boulevards.
Renault is testing a new driverless mini-bus in Barcelona. The autonomous vehicle runs on a 2.2-km (1.3-mile) circular route with four stops in the center of the Spanish city. Adventurous commuters can jump on free of charge.
The French carmaker has teamed up with WeRide, a company specializing in autonomous vehicles, to make the prototype. It unveiled the driverless bus at the French Open venue last year, but now it is testing it on the open road in Barcelona. It also has testing projects going in Valence, France, and at the Zurich airport.
Pau Cugat was one of the curious to step aboard for a short ride along Passeig de Gracia boulevard.
“We just passed by a regular, combustion-engine city bus, and I thought, ‘Look, there is a bus of the past, and right behind it you have the bus of the future,’” the 18-year-old student said.
“The US is doing a lot of experimentation with autonomous vehicles, the same thing in China, Until now we don’t have a lot in fact in Europe. And this is why we want to show that this works and prepare Europe to this route in public transportation.”
Patrick Vergelas, Head of Renault’s AutoNOmous Mobility Projects
Driverless taxis and buses are being tried out by companies in other cities, from San Francisco to Tokyo. But Renault’s initiative comes as Europe generally lags behind the United States and China in driverless vehicle technology, where companies are fiercely competing to get ahead.
The electric bus can run for 120 kilometers without a recharge and reach 40 kilometers per hour (25 mph). It is equipped with 10 cameras and eight lidars (sensor arrays) to help it navigate the streets filled with cars, motorbikes and pedestrians. The company says the bus is able to drive safely on a given course through a busy downtown like that of bustling Barcelona.
Source: AP News
