By Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, New Cities FoundationWe are experiencing the triple convergence of “mobility” — physical, digital, and socio-economic.
Discover lessons, strategies and steps undertaken by London, Manila, São Paulo and Washington D.C. and other major cities to find viable solutions in this group's latest publication, Now Arriving: A Connected Mobility Roadmap for Public Transport
Here's the Introduction in Executive Summary: The form and functioning of cities is defined by transportation. How we traverse them affects everything from our accessto opportunities to land uses to energy consumption and pollution. Railroads, streetcars, and automobiles each produced cities made in their respective images, from skyscrapers to suburbs to sprawl.
Today, the state-of-the-art in transportation is the smartphone. Its two-way ability to locate, coordinate, and orchestrate both passengers and vehicles is more important than any one mode, including the automobile. Smartphones and their successors will transform cities once again. The only question is how.
To date, the ones seizing these opportunities have been private actors, whether in way-finding [e.g. Google maps, Wayz, Apple] , ride-hailing [Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft] or autonomous vehicles [Alphabet, Tesla, Amazon]
This represents both a missed opportunity and a looming threat for public transport, which has struggled to adapt for a litany of historical, political, and technological reasons.
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