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New York MTA opens lab to test new accessibility features for subway
The living lab will test a host of potential new accessibility features for the New York subway, including physcial and digital wayfinding.
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Research highlights key factors behind UK bus use
New research has analysed data to identify six conditions which can be used to define the ‘Intrinsic Bus Potential’ of a UK local authority area.
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Marseille awards contracts to three e-scooter operators
Marseille has become the first major European city to complete a tender for e-scooter operations, and each operator will be able to deploy 2,000 e-scooters each.
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Liverpool Metro Mayor calls for ‘revolution’ in walking and cycling
The Liverpool City Region has set a target to become zero carbon by 2040, with schemes to support walking and cycling initiatives having already cut carbon emissions in the city region by 1600 tonnes per year.
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Minneapolis pilots mobility hubs
The pilot is beginning with four locations in north Minneapolis and will continue with additional locations in south and northeast Minneapolis later this year.
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New on-demand mobility service trialled in Stockholm
The service will be in effect for three months and will allow assessment to be made of the benefits in the area.
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Waze to share traffic data with transport authorities
Crowd-sourced road and traffic data from Waze is to be used by transport authorities to analyse and plan the future of transport.
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Santander partnership brings blockchain to Madrid buses
The partnership with start-up firm Vottun is part of EMT’s ‘Madrid in Motion’ initiative, which encourages innovation across the Spanish capital’s mobility network.
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Mobility on demand: transforming transportation
Shailen Bhatt, President and CEO of ITS America, explains how mobility on demand (MOD) has the transformative power to take transport network integration to the next level.
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Blockchain-based e-mobility project in pilot phase
Blockchains are incorruptible digital ledgers of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not only financial transactions but virtually everything of value.
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How the city is adapting to Canberra’s Light Rail system
Having been in service for several months, Ashley Cahif from the ACT Government, and Lachlan Marks and Debra Surman from Canberra Metro, told Intelligent Transport about the effects the Light Rail system has had on Canberra city.
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Transport industry prepares for Coach & Bus UK 2019
Coach & Bus UK is bringing a raft of world-class innovations, vehicles and tech to the NEC Birmingham next week. Doors open on Wednesday 2 October, with thousands of attendees expected.
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Lyft’s new multimodal app update provides new mobility options
In cities where they are available, the Lyft app will display options for car sharing, bike sharing, scooter sharing, car rental and public transit services.
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Tap on, tap off payments introduced on Brighton & Hove buses
The system replaces the need to purchase a paper ticket or to notify the driver of a destination.
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BlaBlaCar to acquire Russian and Ukrainian online ticketing platform
With over 25 million members in the Russian, Ukrainian and Polish regions, BlaBlaCar aims to seize the market opportunity and help improve the experience of travellers and bus carriers alike.