On the Go
By Trafi
On the GoJan 17, 2019
Celebrating the first year of Jelbi – world’s largest Mobility as a Service
Celebrating the first year of world's largest Mobility as a Service in Berlin, Jakob Michael Heider, Head of Jelbi, and Sebastian Wolf, Product Owner at BVG, share their insights and recommendations for cities looking to launch an alternative to private cars.
Is data privacy possible in times of Corona? How can movement data be used for urban planning? How to incentivize the switch to sustainable mobility? Let's unpack mobility news with Fabien Sauthier
We're continuing our second season with Fabien Sauthier, Chief Operating Officer of MOTIONTAG - mobility company that infers insights from smartphone sensors about when, where, how, and why people use transport services. Together we give you insights into:
How and which mobility data is used to create digital twins that help shape urban planning? Similar mobility data is relied upon for tracking COVID-19 contacts – is it safe? European Commissioner for Competition has concerns with how Silicon Valley is approaching mobility tracking. Can we secure our movement data from huge multinational companies as well as nascent authoritarian regimes? Will public transportation survive physical distancing? How can new tech help with new features: real-time departures, crowdedness, disruption information? Finally, can incentives nudge people towards sustainable mobility?
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Intel acquires Moovit, Uber dumps JUMP, invests in Lime – shocking or inevitable? Let's unpack mobility news with Anthony Barba
We kick off our season with Anthony Barba, publisher of newsletter This Week in Mobility. Today we give you insights into:
- Did COVID–19 cause challenges to shared mobility, or did it just accelerate those same trends that were hiding in plain sight?
- Cities are hyper-focused on increasing mobility subsidies, as well as passenger and driver safety. Is it at all possible everywhere?
- Did Intel just tell the world they want to beat Google and Uber? Chip producer just bought Moovit for a staggering amount — 900 million USD.
- A significant change in MaaS Global (Whim) leadership: does it spell out the end for Helsinki-based Mobility as a Service company’s vision?
- Finally, Uber just dumped a beloved brand — JUMP — and invested 170 million USD into Lime. Did they just future-buy a discounted electric scooter from a garage sale?
Listen to our newest episode right now, and don’t forget to subscribe to On the Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or Anchor. You can also find all of our previous episodes on podcast.trafi.com.
Please send us your questions, comments, requests to podcast@trafi.com. See you in two weeks!