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Projects & Programs

WBC 2019 | Finalists

Jan 16, 2019

Wellbeing Cities Award 2019 – Meet our 16 Finalists Bogotá, ColombiaProject: Ciclovía Bogotá’s initiative Ciclovía is a multi-sectoral community program aimed at decreasing inequality and addressing socio-economic problems, public health, and environmental issues. On every Sunday and public holiday, they free up space on the main streets of Bogotá from motorized vehicles, creating “the largest…
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MaaS Understanding

Nov 27, 2018

Reminiscing back to the summer, we took a family trip to Aquazilla – an obstacle course on the water just off of the main Montréal island. With my two sons we walked 10 minutes to the local metro station to get a train direct to the water park; then hired a Bixi bike (North America’s…

Car-Free Cities in the Future?

Nov 27, 2018

Future mobility won’t mean flying cars or hypersonic trains. But, it will mean a new mode of consumption. A new model for society. New practices. The transport sector is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. And individual cars are largely responsible for that. 75 percent of people use their own personal cars to get…

MaaS Is About Sharing Customers (Not Just Data)

Nov 21, 2018

Warning: This text will focus on the challenges of implementing MaaS. Yes, there are clear positive effects for both citizens and cities if we can offer something more convenient than owning a car, but there are a lot of devils and details in doing it, challenges that are not understood by looking at powerpoints. Trust…
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Mobility as a Service

Nov 21, 2018

Cities are seeing an unprecedented shift away from individually-owned transport towards mobility solutions consumed as a service – Mobility as a Service (MaaS). NewCities has partnered with our Global Strategic Partner Transdev to present a feature editorial on MaaS – looking at the benefits, challenges and how it is shaping cities around the world. Presented…

MaaS – Matching Individual Needs with Sound Societal Values

Nov 20, 2018

Back in 2014, when we at ERTICO started working with our public and private partners to establish a dedicated Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform, the MaaS Alliance, we knew the concept would have a disruptive impact on traditional mobility models, not only for the automotive and Intelligent Transport System (ITS) sectors butfor the transport…
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Intelligent Mobility: Moving People, Data and Freight

Nov 20, 2018

I love being a Dad. I suspect most dads share that sentiment, so it’s not exactly a news flash. I particularly love being a Dad on Halloween. We have two daughters, 5 and 3, and we all dress up for trick or treating, a favorite American pastime. This was our first Halloween in Washington, DC.…