One World – One Environment – One Network
Denmark’s first wooden parking house will help the country to reach its goal to become climate neutral in 2050. The parking house will be made from beams and columns of cross-laminated timber. Danish architecture...
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have identified four different types of smart cities. Their findings could help city planners to develop more effective urban policies and plans. Smart cities use new information and communication...
Volkswagen is entering the growing car sharing sector with a fleet of 1,500 e-Golf vehicles in Berlin. WeShare will later expand to Prague and to Hamburg. German automaker Volkswagen announced that it launched its...
German automaker Volkswagen has signed an agreement to test and develop smart mobility solutions in the Chinese megacity of Hefei. The partnership will focus in particular on autonomous driving solutions. The city of Hefei...
Megacities can embrace eight straightforward ideas to make themselves more sustainable and more livable. Thirty-three so-called megacities – think Cairo, London and Tokyo – are home to 54 per cent of the world’s population....
BMW and Daimler have joined forces to transform the urban mobility services market. The two German automakers are investing more than €1 billion in five joint ventures. Two of Germany’s largest automakers see a...
The UK’s second busiest airport has teamed up with Bluecity to offer an electric car sharing scheme. Passengers, staff and local residents can reserve and pick up an electric car at Gatwick and return...
To avoid EU fines for excessive air pollution, the German government is considering making public transport free of charge. The move could reduce the number of private cars and cut emissions. In a bid to...
Car sharing is becoming more and more popular in US cities. Whether its domestic providers such as Zipcar or foreign ones like Daimler’s Car2Go – growth numbers are skyrocketing. Cities are now helping car-sharing...
Science Year 2015, which focuses on the City of the Future, commences on 19 February 2015. Researchers from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft are contributing to the German government’s initiative by developing viable solutions to make megacities...
Mobility can get substantially more efficient. Traffic jams can be avoided and the negative impact on the climate can be reduced by increasing vehicle occupancy levels. PTV SWISS AG has created a software platform...
Car sharing is becoming increasingly popular around the world, in part because it is often acclaimed as a more environmentally friendly alternative to owning a car. But a recently released study argues that car...
London is keeping a close eye on Paris and its successful Autolib’ electric car-sharing scheme. Starting next year, the city will try to catch up to its French counterpart by complement its public bicycle-sharing...
