Rethinking Urban Mobility: Three Questions That Will Shape The Future Of Transport In Cities

Cities are a magnet for people as centres for jobs, economic activity and innovation, and urban mobility systems lie at the very heart of what makes cities attractive and viable. Urban transport however is facing an urgent set of challenges as a number of social, technological, economic, environmental and political impacts place further stress on already straining systems.  As new business models and technologies try and solve these challenges, huge uncertainties about how these will impact cities over the long term remain, and whether they will move ahead of customer acceptance and regulatory frameworks.

The Mobility Revolution

At the beginning of the twenty-first century we are witnessing another rapid technological revolution, with communication-based technologies enabling radically different approaches to mobility for both people and goods. Even as hotbeds of innovation, the fundamentals of city transport systems have not changed significantly over the last 50