Unified Urban Mobility: A Holistic Pathway for Sustainable Cities

Cities around the world face unprecedented challenges around congestion, accidents, and emissions. Thus, it requires transformative strategies for rethinking how people and goods move through urban spaces, emphasizing an integrated, sustainable vision that balances logistics with public transit, infrastructure innovation, and environmental responsibility.

Designing Future Cities: Empathy and Emotional Intelligence at the Core

Decades of government and philanthropic policies have facilitated economically stagnant zones where people measure their success by how far they get away. This talent-extraction paradigm makes them far more vulnerable to real estate speculation and displacement, and removes individuals with spending power, day to day examples of success, and the investment and financial acumen needed to build local economies.

Public and Private Collaboration to Create Better Future Transport Systems for Cities

With ever decreasing budgets, greater citizen expectations, social inequality challenges, and the pressure cities are facing with the climate emergency, the role of transport to support economic growth and further supporting healthier cities, there needs to be a transformative shift on how cities work with the market to move to sustainable collaborative partnerships and avoid low-level transactional activity.

Rikesh Shah, a global leader on open innovation will make the case on how cities can shape markets and work in collaboration to develop innovative solutions to achieve better, cheaper and quicker public policy outcomes. He previously led Open Innovation at Transport for London.

If you are a public body or an innovative start-up, academic, venture capitalists or accelerator, listen to Rikesh’s challenge to all of us.

Optimizing Bicycle-Bus Combination in Public Networks – an Operator’s Perspective

Optimizing Bicycle-Bus combination in public networks. An operator’s perspective.

Integrating shared bicycle services into the bus public transport network has many advantages: One of them being that it offers to the user a coherent, integrated and more sustainable mobility solution, by facilitating users’ access to services while optimizing management and operating costs.