Car-sharing network Zipcar has launched its new free-floating car-sharing service in Brussels, Belgium, the seventh major country launch for the brand in Europe and the introduction of its most flexible car-sharing service to date.
Will the relentless growth of Google lead to it becoming the ultimate provider of travel information services? Huw Williams investigates Google’s strategy and David Crawford discovers what two principal rivals are doing to keep pace. In the first weeks of 2012 one company staked two divergent claims on the future of transport. One is the science fiction of only a decade ago, turned into reality: the driverless car. The other seems more prosaic, yet in its own way is just as significant a marker of the futur
