Cities and Urbanization
How are the world’s biggest cities rethinking public transport?
As cities search for ways to make their environments cleaner and healthier, alternative methods of transport have become a hot topic.
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L'avenir de la mobilité
How road pricing is tackling congestion and pollution in cities like London and Singapore
Singapore and London may be located in different hemispheres but both cities are global leaders in innovative approaches that reduce the congestion, emissions and pollution caused by road...
L'avenir de l'énergie
Innovative investments could decarbonize transport in India. Here’s how
India is home to 14 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world. Decarbonization of the public transport system can help improve the air quality in cities while accelerating an e-transpor...
Intelligence artificielle et robotique
How man and machine can work together in the age of AI
As the US goes through the biggest loss of jobs in decades, President Donald Trump is proposing to solve matters by decoupling the US’ manufacturing relationship with China and bringing t...
SDI2020
5 ways to speed up the creation of smart cities
The promise of technology-enabled infrastructure – or InfraTech – is mouth-watering. Smarter, greener cities. Connected transport systems. Efficient, carbon-neutral construction. Higher-p...
Le changement climatique
Dam it all: could this ancient technology protect us from rising sea levels?
On 14 December 1287, the dikes that held the North Sea back from the Netherlands coast broke. The resulting inundation, known as St. Lucia’s Flood, caused between 50,000 to 80,000 lives t...
Afrique
A vision for post-pandemic mobility in African cities
Cycling lanes and walkways are popping up in cities across the globe, from Bogotá to Paris to Jakarta, and even in car-centric cities such as Los Angeles and Sydney, as pandemic-calming m...
L'avenir de la mobilité
How COVID-19 revealed the importance of integrating passenger and freight transport
While the COVID-19 crisis halted passenger transport, freight transport continued via air, ships and trucks to keep the world’s economies going and deliver essentials. We saw 40+ km truck...
COVID-19
COVID-19 gives us a chance to design an aviation industry fit for the future
The COVID-19 pandemic will have significant financial implications for most communities around the world. But it is also amplifying a few truths of which we were all aware, but which we h...
L'avenir de la mobilité
How should we design the urban freight systems of the future?
While cargo and freight deliveries already form a substantial part of the mobility landscape, the industry is still growing – and it might grow more than expected, as we don’t have foreca...
Aviation, Travel and Tourism
Here’s what travelling could be like after COVID-19
• Airlines, travel companies and the tourism sector as a whole face an unprecedented challenge from the coronavirus pandemic.
Cities and Urbanization
This is what happens when cities ban cars from the roads
A future in which everyone travels in driverless flying cars may still dominate the popular imagination, particularly when it comes to media and marketing hype. But if we are to meet the ...
Chaîne d'approvisionnement et transport
Airships, solar planes and Soviet-era sea skimmers … here's how we fix air travel
Air travel and related carbon emissions are responsible for more than 2 % of global emissions. Although it might not sound much, if it were a country, it would rank as the 10th largest po...
L'avenir de la mobilité
Making the move to more sustainable mobility – three steps for companies
Gridlocked highways, smog over buildings and armies of unhappy and angry commuters are images seen in cities around the world. But a different vision – one of people on bicycles, buses, t...
L'avenir de la mobilité
How we can embrace the electrical vehicle transition by adopting smart charging
The age of the electric vehicle (EV) is dawning, with two million of them sold in 2018. Whether EV purchases are motivated by environmental concerns, lower operating costs, increases in r...