We are back with a new instalment in our series of interviews with innovative start-ups and companies in the mobility sector. Today, we discuss with Dr. Angelika Kneidl, co-founder of the Munich-based start-up accu:rate, which offers consulting and software for pedestrian dynamics.
Today we kick off a new series in which we speak one-on-one with innovative start-ups and companies in the mobility sector. Up first are the public transport visionaries at door2door.
Uber, fully electric cars, combustion vehicle bans in cities – radical ideas split people into two camps: those for and those against it. Such is the case with Elon Musk’s famous Hyperloop. Is it the next big thing for the mobility industry and Business Mobility – or is mostly just hype?
In a 2015 study entitled ‘Towards New Urban Mobility: The case of London and Berlin’, a research team at London School of Economics set out to understand how people in two European cities – London and Berlin – actually get around in a daily basis.
In the fleet management industry, everybody knows the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as a standard for evaluating the cost of running a fleet. But nevertheless, companies big and small have to pay attention to gain a more accurate look at what they are really spending while travelling from A to B. Not only by paying attention to the fleet but with a
Imagine you have a business trip coming up. An overnight one. You go online, look for a conveniently located hotel, with the best amenities for your allocated budget, and book a room, right? Well, now there’s another option: stay in a private room or flat instead of hotels.
The A9. A 529-km-long stretch of motorway in Germany, running from Munich to Berlin, will soon be home to one of the most thrilling mobility projects in recent history: a Digital Motorway Test Bed. If all goes as planned, on a future journey to the Reichstag or the Oktoberfest, you may witness autonomous cars, smartly zipping along this “laboratory
Sensational-sounding headlines in the media like “Amazon unveils futuristic plan: Delivery by drone” left many (myself included!) initially wondering if it was a farce. Now, of course, we know the e-commerce giant is dead serious. If the company gets its way, drones will deliver packages, using low-altitude airspace, deemed “drone zones” in the not
Is there room for a new player in the auto industry – one that exclusively uses the sun’s energy? For the team at the Technical University Eindhoven behind the solar powered vehicle Stella Lux, the answer is a clear yes.
A zero-emissions city in the middle of the desert. Impossible, right? Well, back in 2008 Masdar City, an aspirational project on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, set out to prove it wasn’t. Claiming to be “the world’s most sustainable eco-neighbourhood”, the project aimed to realise a vision of eco-conscious urban living for the
A few years back the term ‘big data’ was, well, big. Nearly everyone was quick to jump on the big data trend, which, it turns out, was destined for big problems. As it turns out, no one really knows what to do with so much unorganised information.
150 years. That’s how long ago the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency for information and communication technologies (ICT) was founded. Back when the most common forms of communication involved ships, telegraph services – and a lot of patience.
Let’s start with a piece of trivia. What are there more of: people in the United States of America or motorists in China? The answer: people in the US – but just barely. 319 million call the USA home while 300 million motorists drive on China’s streets (let’s not get into the fact that 2 out of 3 Chinese adults have no license to drive!)
Let’s think back for a moment to the summer of 2014. The entire world had its eyes on Brazil, host of the football World Cup. The country’s government proudly spent years and millions preparing for the games, including the construction of a cable car travelling over the favelas, or slums, of Brazil’s second largest city. The project was originally
Drink driving is dangerous. So dangerous that throughout Europe one in four traffic fatalities involves alcohol. Despite the alarming facts, getting behind the wheel after enjoying a beer is not uncommon in many European countries. For those who do and are checked by the police, the roadside alcohol breath test ultimately decides if that last sip
Our post-modern world is one of growing complexity. Data is being passed around the globe at all times making it difficult to keep track of where it ends up and what it means. Yet, it is important to realise that not all of human kind is immersed in the information and communication technology age. Consequently, our information civilisation is not
Buy a car, get the license number, now you’re ready to hit the road. At least that’s standard procedure in a large part of the world. But since the introduction of quotas for license numbers, things work a little differently in China’s metropolises. In Shenzhen, for example, the eighth and latest Chinese city to introduce a quota, license numbers
Today being mobile is a defining characteristic in our lives and it’s easier to feel connected to those who, in distance terms, are far away. It’s not unthinkable for professionals to drive halfway across the country to attend an hour-long meeting with customers. Or to fly to a neighbouring one for a weekly jour fixe. Sausage and sauerkraut for
