by Grace Dawes | Nov 29, 2023 | Energy & Charging, Fleets, Interviews, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Video, Videos |
Emily Yates Chief Innovation Officer at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) spoke to MOVEMNT at the MOVE America conference about women’s safety on public transportation.
Yates works specifically on the cross-overs between data, analytics, and policy at SEPTA and also oversees sustainability, therefore having a huge number of issues to be concerned with in public transport.
Yates mentions the significant concern over women’s safety on public transportation as she states that two-thirds of the people who use the SEPTA services are women. Therefore, women’s safety is a big focus for innovation. Yates discusses the development of live bus location and times via an app which the Authority hope will give more confidence to those using SEPTA’s services.
Watch the full interview to hear more on this plus an exclusive insight into what Yates discussed on her panel at the event, entitled “How to integrate new mobility services with minimal disruption”.
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 28, 2023 | Autos, EVs, Fleets, Interviews, Modes, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
Sean Ackley Head of Charging & Energy at VinFast spoke with MOVEMNT at the MOVE America conference about how the electric charging system has the potential to become a seamless and integrated experience.
Ackley proposes that electric vehicle (EV) charging shouldn’t be complex or difficult to understand, and it shouldn’t feel hard to find either.
He discusses how VinFast are working to remove the complexities of charging across the mobility ecosystem, meeting the people who are capable of making this possible at MOVE.
To do this, the company are integrating all of these different partners into a single app and have successfully integrated over 112,000 charge points to make charging infrastructure easier to find.
Watch the full interview below to hear more…
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 16, 2023 | Fleets, Interviews, Modes, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
John Kuehn manager of transit partnerships at Uber discusses Uber’s mission for easier and more efficient transit across the US – even in transit deserts!
Kuehn discussed Uber’s endeavour to partner with cities and transit agencies to support and offer them additional services they might not have the powers to provide independently in transit.
He explains that Uber want to fill the gaps in the transit space where agencies might not be able to fulfil all of the rides they would like to.
Kuehn also mentions the return of Uber’s X Share service which would allow users to share rides with other users, which was banned during the pandemic.
Watch the full interview to hear more about Uber’s experience at MOVE America 2023 and what they had to say on their panel about “How equitable MaaS programs can become ladders of opportunity”.
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 15, 2023 | Autos, Business, Fleets, Infrastructure, Interviews, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
Michele Mueller the senior project manager of connected and automated vehicles at Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) discusses how the state are employing innovative technology in their safety systems to ensure people get home safely every day.
Mueller also talks about how the department are working with new start-ups to help expand and develop Michigan’s transportation system as well as the opportunity to meet these exact types of start-ups at the MOVE America conference.
MDOT are developing their systems by looking at the challenges within the transport infrastructure and working with industry partners to find solutions to these challenges.
Mueller explains that the department’s goal to make their systems smarter, more efficient, and most importantly, to help people get home to their families as safely as possible.
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 14, 2023 | Autos, Business, Energy & Charging, Events, Fleets, Infrastructure, Interviews, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
Jason JonMichael a senior strategist at the United States Department of Transport (USDOT) discussed how AI and automated systems are impacting the way Americans get around.
As a member of the Highly Automated Safety Systems Centre of Excellence (HASS COE) JonMichael explained how his team have a duty to help USDOT by reviewing, assessing, and validating the safety of autonomous systems and AI in transportation. JonMichael stressed that this applies not only in ground autonomy and advanced air mobility but also across national rail systems and ports.
HASS COE was established by congress to focus on automation systems and investigate their intermodal and multimodal implications, to help augment each USDOT Operating Administration’s own expertise and enable success in assessing, predicting, and verifying the safety of relevant emerging technology.
JonMichael also commented on the amount of funding that the Biden-Harris administration has recently provided to US transport systems and stated that it is “the shotgun start” US transport infrastructure needs.
Watch the full interview to hear more about how US transport is adopting and adapting to ever-developing technology and if we should be happy with this.
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 3, 2023 | Autos, Business, Energy, Energy & Charging, Events, EVs, Fleets, Infrastructure, Keynote videos, Modes, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
Watch the first keynote panel that kicked off in the keynote theatre on the morning of day one at the MOVE America 2023 conference in Austin, Texas. The panel is joined by the stop speakers and disruptors that attended the event who came together to discuss how the tech-mobility space is revolutionising and what its future looks like, or could look like. Watch the full session below.
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 3, 2023 | Autos, Business, Energy, Energy & Charging, Events, EVs, Fleets, Infrastructure, Keynote videos, Modes, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
Watch this keynote panel discussion from day one of MOVE America 2023 joined by the top players in the EV charing space. This conversation surrounds the main barriers in EV adoption for the American population and how the lack of charging infrastructure might be affecting this. Watch the full video below to hear what these experts have to say about the issue and how it will effect America’s clean energy transition.
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 3, 2023 | Autos, Business, Energy, Energy & Charging, Events, EVs, Fleets, Infrastructure, Keynote videos, Modes, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
How long do you think it will be until the cars on the roads will have no drivers? Will autonomous vehicles become the norm in the next few years? Or longer? Watch this keynote discussion from day one of MOVE America 2023 on the growth of autonomous vehicles in the tech-mobility space and how companies are embracing this trending mode of transportation.
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 3, 2023 | Autos, Business, Energy, Energy & Charging, Events, EVs, Fleets, Infrastructure, Keynote videos, Modes, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
This day one keynote panel from MOVE America 2023 discusses how we can accelerate change within the mobility ecosystem through collaboration and innovation. Joined by some of the top names in mobility, watch the full keynote discussion below.
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 3, 2023 | Autos, Business, Energy, Energy & Charging, EVs, Fleets, Infrastructure, Keynote videos, Modes, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
This keynote discussion is from day two of the MOVE America 2023 in Austin, Texas, and follows a conversation about the layers of the supply chain in the tech-mobility space. With bold statements from mobility’s most credible sources, this panel also includes a heavily debated estimation of when cars will become fully electrified. Watch the full video to hear the panel’s predictions.
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by Grace Dawes | Nov 3, 2023 | Autos, Business, Energy, Energy & Charging, EVs, Fleets, Infrastructure, Keynote videos, Modes, MOVE America, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
Watch this keynote discussion between the top disruptors and speakers in the tech-mobility space. This panel occurred at the end of day two at MOVE America 2023 and discusses how cities and companies can collaborate to advance their mobility intelligence.
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by Grace Dawes | Oct 25, 2023 | Energy, Energy & Charging, Fleets, Interviews, Modes, MOVE America, Popular, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
Andrew Savage VP & founding team from the popular micro-mobility company Lime has reassured riders that the company’s e-bikes are thriving on the streets of Paris despite the recent ban of all e-scooters in the French capital.
Savage addressed the trend at the MOVE America conference in Austin Texas, assuring that the ban has not slowed down the company’s e-mobility market in Europe despite expectations. Due to the removal of e-scooters, e-bikes are now taking off in the city and filling the micro-mobility gap for pedestrians.
At the conference, Savage also hosted his own talk “Making micro-mobility sustainable and profitable”. He claims that many businesses believe in sustainability not being wholly compatible with profitability, but Savage disagrees.
In this full interview, Savage details how Lime is attempting to make a congruence between sustainability and profitability in order to better the micro-mobility market whilst still continuing to thrive as a business.
Watch the full interview to find out more.
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by Grace Dawes | Sep 19, 2023 | Business, Infrastructure, Interviews, MOVE America, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video, Videos |
Would you believe it if I told you that your behaviour whilst driving could actually help inform road layouts? Or that the data collected from your driving behaviour could help transportation much safer?
Well, it’s true! Meet Jeff Schlitt, solution engineering director at Arity. Schlitt outlines how mobility and driver data are collected by the company and converted into meaningful behavioural insights. The consultancy then leverages telematics to make transportation smarter, safer, and more useful for everyone.
The data collected is also used by the company to provide solutions to help with infrastructure and is given to municipalities to aid city and town developments.
Watch the full interview with Arity with an exclusive sneak peek of what we can expect to see from the Arity team at MOVE America 2023 next week!
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by Grace Dawes | Aug 10, 2023 | Interviews, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Video |
The director for Catalonia Trade & Investment Oscar Marti went into detail on all of the companies the Catalonian Government stand were showcasing at MOVE 2023.
Catalonia Trade & Investment is the Catalan Government agency for foreign investment and business competitiveness, promoting the innovation, internationalisation, trade and funding of Catalan companies and startups.
Listing all of the respective contributions of Catalonia’s urban mobility companies at the event, Marti noted that the stand boasted an impressive collection of brands and OEMs.
Watch the full interview to hear about what the Catalonian stand had to offer at MOVE 2023 and how their efforts towards sustainability are providing valuable opportunities for the innovation of their urban mobility.
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by Grace Dawes | Jul 31, 2023 | Interviews, Smart Cities, Tech, Tech & Data, Video |
At MOVE 2023 Norman Palmhof managing consultant at Valtech Mobility talked about all-things connected mobility and the company’s experience at the event.
Valtech Mobility specialise in designing, developing and managing digital platform services and products to help enable customers and partners to create value streams and monetise data from connected vehicles.
Palmhof commented on Valtech’s recent partnership with Parkopedia and how the two companies are joining forces to provide end-to-end services for carmakers. The services that are made possible through the collaboration include integrated solutions for parking, fuelling, tolling, and charging in connected vehicles.
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by Grace Dawes | Jul 25, 2023 | Fleets, Infrastructure, Interviews, Modes, MOVE, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Video |
At MOVE 2023 Henri Moissinac, the co-founder and CEO of Dott, talked about the fifteen-minute city and how micro-mobility can help make this goal to become a reality in cities all over the world.
With a mandate to encourage the fifteen-minute city, Moissinac recently contributed to the Micro-mobility Industry Best Practice Report and commented on the purpose of the report and its key findings in and around micro-mobility.
Moissinac also discussed his predictions for the future of micro-mobility and whether he thinks the trend will continue to climb. With more and more micro-modes of transport being embraced in cities all around the world, publicly and privately, Moissinac commented on how he thinks this will impact ownership of personal cars.
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by Grace Dawes | Jul 20, 2023 | Business, Infrastructure, Interviews, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Video |
Around 20 years ago, Rod King MBE campaigned in his local town for a 20 mph speed limit on roads where pedestrians mix with motorists. Fast forward to today and King’s organisation, 20s Plenty for Us, now boasts 600 local campaigns across the entire of the UK.
King talked about his campaign with MOVEMNT at MOVE 2023 and commented on his keynote talk “20’s plenty: maximising the potential of the spaces between buildings that we call streets”.
King asked how cities and towns can sweat the assets of what we call ‘streets’ in order to meet the needs and aspirations of we have right now in the third decade of the 21st century. He endeavours to promote the 20s Plenty Campaign in order to “make your place a better place to be”.
Watch the MBE’s full interview to learn more about his MOVE 2023 and what his personal MOVE sustainability pledge is for the upcoming year.
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by Grace Dawes | Jul 13, 2023 | Fleets, Interviews, Modes, MOVE, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, Video |
At the ExCeL last month, we spoke to Ardo Reinsalu, the director of vehicles at Bolt about all-things micro-mobility.
On day one of MOVE 2023 , Bolt announced the release of their latest in-house e-scooter, Bolt 6. In this interview, Reinsalu told us what makes this next-gen model better and more efficient than its previous versions. In addition, Bolt told us what their MOVE pledge was as a company for the upcoming year.
We also spoke about Reinsalu’s theatre discussion at the event on “The future of vehicles: what are the drivers of change?” and his main takeaways from the talk.
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by Grace Dawes | Jul 3, 2023 | Business, Fleets, Interviews, MOVE, Smart Cities, Tech, Video |
Mastercard’s EVP of global acceptance, Jennifer Marriner, and Ryd’s CEO, Uli Kiendl, were fresh off of the keynote stage when they chatted to MOVEMNT editor Grace Dawes at MOVE 2023.
The pair commented on their main takeaways from their shared keynote talk on “The acceleration of payments – an opportunity for frictionless mobility”.
Mastercard’s attendance at MOVE is to draw attention to how the company can accelerate efficiency and seamless travel in urban mobility and specifically how payment is a hugely influential factor in this process.
Kiendl’s company, Ryd, also contribute to the topic of payment efficiency in urban mobility at MOVE 2023 by specialising in in-car payments and enabling urban journeys to be faster and safer.
The business partners also told us about their MOVE 2023 experiences and what their companies MOVE pledges are for 2023.
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by Grace Dawes | Jun 27, 2023 | Keynote videos, Smart Cities, Video |
Jennifer Marriner, executive VP of global acceptance at Mastercard, and Uli Kiendl, CEO of ryd, take to the Keynote Theatre together to discuss how seamless payments can promote growth in urban mobility.
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