MaaS Alliance has joined The Global New Mobility Coalition (GNMC), a community of more than 100 institutions which aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 95%.
The GNMC also seeks to improve transport efficiency by 70% and reduce mobility costs by 40%.
As part of the deal, MaaS Alliance is to share knowledge with the GNMC alongside other organisations such as C40, Polis and ITF.
MaaS Alliance is a non-profit organisation which seeks to establish a common approach to Mobility as a Service. It entered i
November 25, 2019
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8356 MaaS Alliance has joined The Global New Mobility Coalition (GNMC), a community of more than 100 institutions which aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 95%.
The GNMC also seeks to improve transport efficiency by 70% and reduce mobility costs by 40%.
As part of the deal, MaaS Alliance is to share knowledge with the GNMC alongside other organisations such as C40, Polis and ITF.
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The GNMC was officially launched as part of the UN Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York City.
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is demonstrating its new website on transformational technologies in transportation at ITS America San Jose this week. The website includes resources about ongoing research, publications, news and events. Technologies covered include connected and automated vehicles, shared use services; unmanned aerial systems (drones); nextgen, internet of things, smarts cities; big data; and cybersecurity. Attendees can check out the new site at www.TRB.org/ main/TransTech.aspx or
Mobility operator Transdev and bike-share company Mobike will offer ‘free floating’ bicycles to local authorities in France in a partnership to provide residents with a ‘clean’ last-mile solution.
Transdev says 70% of local authorities in France consider the development of ‘soft’ transportation modes as a priority in the transition to clean energy.
The companies aim to market the Mobike bicycles in more than ten authorities over the next year.
Richard Dujardin, general manager of Transdev France, says:
The USDOT will hold its next two connected vehicle PlugFests on 13-15 May in Farmington Hills, Michigan and on 24-26 June in Palo Alto, California. PlugFests provide venues for vendor-to-vendor connected vehicle device testing to help ensure that devices and systems meet the base standard requirements and level of interoperability necessary for the Southeast Michigan Connected Vehicle Test Bed Deployment 2014 Project.
Chinese bike sharing company Ofo is scaling back its US operations and has laid off employees from multiple departments. The move, according to a report by Quartz, will allow the company to refocus on markets in a bid to become profitable.
The start-up plans to continue operating in US cities such as Seattle, San Diego and New York.
According to Quartz, the company is also leaving Australia and Israel and reducing operations in the UK.
The company operates yellow bicycles which riders can rent thro