Appyparking exhibits platform to help drivers and cities
Appyparking is using Intertraffic to showcase a connected car platform that is said to bridge mapping, data, Internet of Things and payments drivers to provide users with more choice for destinations. The solution aims to save drivers time and money while also reducing congestion and pollution in cities. The product is part of the company’s ambition to create an urban transport application programming interface for kerbside navigation that can integrate into intelligent mobility applications which has
March 19, 2018
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8674 Appyparking is using Intertraffic to showcase a connected car platform that is said to bridge mapping, data, Internet of Things and payments drivers to provide users with more choice for destinations. The solution aims to save drivers time and money while also reducing congestion and pollution in cities.
The product is part of the company’s ambition to create an urban transport application programming interface for kerbside navigation that can integrate into intelligent mobility applications which has earned Appyparking an accolade of the 15th most disruptive company in the world.
Daimler subsidiary Car2go has made its electric car rental service available to Parisian users in a 77km square area within the city’s Périphérique motorway.
Drivers are charged between €0.24 to €0.34 per minute depending on the location and time of the rental, and can charge the vehicles at around 1,100 charging stations in the French capital.
The details flesh out Car2go’s announcement last year of plans to deploy 400 electric Smart EQ Fortwo vehicles in the city. The company intends to add more ve
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A report by Ecns.com says the company’s Hubei subsidiary is taking steps to choose sites for 5G stations, test intelligent tolling systems and prepare for trials involving driverless cars.
China Mobile’s Hubei branch is working with the group’s tech subsidiary in Shanghai and with Hubei Provincial Communications Investment to investigate how ultrafast 5G
The Vision Show, North America’s largest vision and imaging trade show and conference, will be held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Hynes Convention Center, 3-5 May 2016. Founded by AIA in 1996, The Vision Show provides vision users, system integrators, machine builders and OEMs with access to the latest vision and imaging technologies and applications from nearly over 100 leading manufacturers, distributors and suppliers from around the world.
We speak to trend researcher Sven Gábor Jánszky, head of the renowned 2b AHEAD think tank in Leipzig, on the world view of Generation Y, the mobility-related preferences of digital citizens and their disruptive effects on the transport systems of the future.
