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Mobility budget: what do you need to know?
Tags: Mobility, Budget

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That’s it! The Mobility Budget finally came into effect on March 1, 2019! You’ve probably heard about it a lot, but you do not really know what this budget entails or how it can be used? We have decided to compile for you the most important information about this Mobility budget !

The mobility budget in a few words.

Eligibility criteria

How does it work?

The mobility budget in a few words

First things to remember about the Mobility Budget: it is voluntary! This means that there is no obligation to use this budget, neither for the employer nor for the worker. Moreover, this budget only concerns Belgium (for the moment !).

Secondly, the Mobility Budget is calculated according to the principle of “ total cost of ownership”. This cost represents the annual gross cost of the company car for the employer, including tax and parafiscal charges, and “ancillary” expenses (financing costs, annual depreciation, fuel, insurance, contributions, etc.), to which the worker has rights.

But who can claim this mobility budget? You will understand, this budget is only for people owning a company car or entitled to have one, but let’s look at the eligibility criteria in detail!

Eligibility criteria

These eligibility criteria are as follows :

> One condition for the employer: he must have already made available to one or more workers, company cars for an uninterrupted period of 36 months (exception for employers active for less than 36 months, who must make available a or several company cars at the time of budgeting).

> Two conditions for the worker :

A. Must have had a company car (in the last 36 months), or have been eligible for a company car (for at least 12 months)

B. He must have a company car, or be eligible for a company car (for at least 3 months without interruption) at the time of application.

(exceptions : hiring a worker, promotion or change of function before the budget comes into effect)

How does it work?

Many people know that a Mobility budget will be created and made available to businesses, but no one knows exactly how it will be applied and distributed. We have created a small infographic combining the 3 pillars of this budget Mobility:

Go further with our guide !
Retail and recreation activity is returning — except in London
By: Tera Allas
Tags: Levelling Up, Mobility, Covid 19, United Kingdom, Economy

With “freedom day” finally upon us, I wanted to see whether it showed up in Google’s COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports. Not surprisingly, the answer is “yes”, even though the start of school holidays sometime that week in most places in England will have created additional perturbations that make it hard to interpret. However, looking at the data does show just how much London lags behind every other region in its recovery.

Before I get into more commentary, let me explain a few things about the data shown. In order to better identify any impact that changes to social distancing and other COVID-19 related rules might have had on the 19th July, the chart only shows Mondays (as there are significant differences in mobility patterns depending on the day of the week). (Having said that, London’s lack of recovery is evident regardless of weekday.)

For this chart, I have not gone into the trouble of correcting for things like different timings of school holidays. However, it’s clear that they have a big impact: the two previous spikes seen in the data in April and May coincided (broadly) with the end of Easter holidays and start of the summer half-term. Note also that the Google mobility data is provided by local authority, which I have averaged up to the UK regions shown (without any weighting).

What is really remarkable is the degree to which mobility to retail and recreation locations in general — and on the 19th of July — has not increased in London. Even the least-recovered other region, East Midlands, had mobility levels of around -10% relative to the February 2020 baseline. In many places, retail and recreation mobility already exceeds pre-pandemic levels. This is in stark contrast with London, where the index lingers around -30%.

A similar pattern is visible for the other mobility indices Google compiles, namely for “Transit stations”, “Workplaces” and “Grocery and pharmacy”. Given that the “Workplaces” index correlates very well with the proportion of people on furlough, this does not bode well for London’s labour market. Even green spaces in London are seeing fewer people, despite a general increase in park usage nationally.

The one index that is much higher in London than elsewhere is the one measuring “Residential” mobility. This indicates a profound shift in London’s internal geography, no doubt partly due to the ability of many more of its residents to work from home than in other regions. I will post about this later, but a more detailed look into the local authorities within London shows that, not surprisingly, central London boroughs have lost the most footfall to workplaces and retail and recreation sites.
Our Next Chapter: UrbanFootprint Lands $11.5M in Series A Funding
By: Joe Distefano
Tags: Mobility, Startup, Fundraising, Urban Planning, Cities

We are privileged to work with some of the most talented, dedicated, and driven people in the industry — men and women who took a chance to work with us, who work with a purpose and passion that powers us forward. It is a true honor to be a part of this team.

Celebrating two years of UrbanFootprint

Looking back, we’ve come a long way since the idea for UrbanFootprint was just that — an idea. More than twenty years ago, we sought to close what we saw as a critical gap in how decisions are made about cities, development projects, and infrastructure investments. We saw a need to inform these decisions with real data about the impacts of plans and policies, to rise above local and partisan politics to a higher ground where facts drive better, more sustainable outcomes and the lasting coalitions required to foster real change.

From this pursuit emerged our approach to data and community-driven scenario planning, built on the foundation that testing and understanding multiple choices leads to better outcomes. Methods and models were built and refined over countless projects across the U.S. and abroad — with each application leading to more informed decisions, as well as a better and faster toolset. In UrbanFootprint lives our mission to make these tools and methods accessible and available to every city and urban practitioner, and critically, to every business challenged with understanding and competing within urban markets. As the world urbanizes, impacting how such businesses operate is paramount in the mission to improve the lives of citizens across the globe.

Today, planners are faced with addressing some of society’s toughest challenges, including climate change, acute housing shortages, unprecedented traffic, pollution, hazard risk, and more. Planners are real-life urban superheroes — the women and men on the frontlines working to improve the quality of life for a projected 7 billion urban citizens by 2050. It’s our hope UrbanFootprint can help planners, communities, and businesses transform these obstacles into opportunities with the data and tools to drive better plans, policies, and action.

To really take on such challenges, we need to dramatically increase who can harness the power of great data, great maps, and sophisticated modeling of consequences. UrbanFootprint is designed, from the ground up, to be more collaborative and more accessible than traditional tools because we want to arm every player in the urban environment with the tools needed to take on some of society’s most critical questions:

How can we plan for more resilient cities in the age of climate change?
These 10 cars could be the Next Tesla!
By: Stocks
Tags: Self Driving Cars, Mobility, Electric Car, Tesla, Stock Market

10 major Tesla competitors Electric cars are plug-in electrical autos that use electric motors for propulsion, using energy saved in rechargeable batteries. Lithium-based batteries are frequently picked for their high power and energy density, although may break over a long period of time.

For years, governments have hesitated to ban gas- or diesel-burning engines for vehicles due to the absence of options to fossil-fuel powered transportation.

A renaissance in electrical automobile manufacturing has taken place given that 2008, thanks to advances in battery technologies, issues about surging oil costs, and the desire to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

While electric cars are less costly to run compared to internal combustion engine cars due to lower cost of repairs and energy, usually, electrical automobiles still cost substantially more to initially buy.

A number of nationwide and city governments have actually established tax credits, aids, and other incentives to promote the adoption in the mass market of brand-new electrical automobiles. Norway, Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands have actually set goals to prohibit sales of brand-new fuel and diesel automobiles.

The decision by these countries is seen as a victory for electric vehicles and a blow to the internal combustion engine. China is currently the world’s largest maker of pure electrical lorries. The blossoming electric car market is currently dominated by Tesla. However, more recent competitors are aggressively moving into the luxury electrical automobile space. Here is a take a look at the 10 major competitors to Tesla.

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Hi, Helen.
By: Carol Shetler
Tags: Mobility, Sports, Age And Pain, Fitness, Physiotherapy

Hi, Helen. I’m 62 and just recently discovered that my pain and stiffness in my right hip is not due to a poor mattress or because I’m lazy — it’s due to a re-aggravation of an old injury that — to my amazement — actually forced my right hip socket to turn outward from its normal position by about 10 degrees. I fell down my basement stairs 14 years ago, and because I turned my right leg outward and shoved it hard against the stair rail to arrest my fall, I actually damaged the hip socket badly (but I prevented a concussion as my head was about to smack into a stair tread…) Given the chance to redo my response to the fall, I’d still do the same thing.

Yeow! If I hadn’t started working as an industrial cleaner after a decade of sitting in a chair writing articles, editing articles and tutoring students privately, I would never have found out about the real damage I did to myself with that fall down the stairs over a decade ago. All my doctor has wanted to talk about is “well, yes, your arthritis in that joint is progressing”. Did you not yet notice that the joint is out of alignment by ten degrees, Doc? My previous doctor did not clue in to the reality of the injury either.

I went back to the physiotherapists who fixed up my dislocated shoulder three years ago, and have asked them to perform another miracle for me. And guess what? They have done it. The joint is now only out of place by about five degrees after three months of targeted physio, and a schedule of exercises that I do faithfully every day. I can sit and stand and walk three miles a day (at my job that’s the minimum of floor space I cover daily to do my cleaning tasks) without constant pain. I still have twinges of discomfort when I make particular movements, but these are few and far between now. I can turn my right foot almost parallel to my very straight left foot when I stand upright, and when I raise my right leg up at 90 degrees, I see less and less of the heel ball of my right foot every time.

Although I am Canadian, and we have “universal healthcare coverage”, physiotherapy is on the list of treatments that are NOT FREE. I pay $65.00 for each session, and to me, I am making the best possible investment of my money. So far I have had six treatments at a cost of $330.00. No idea what these would cost in the USA, but I still consider I am getting great value for my money. I may be able to ice-skate and ride my bicycle again by this summer. Yippee! I may be able to do two of my favourite fitness activities again soon.

So you are right, Helen, it’s not too late to get fit again, and with good physiotherapy, achieve lasting rehabilitation of even serious and chronic injuries.
This is the lastest big bet by Ford, and I am guessing it won’t be the last.
By: Marc A. Ross
Tags: Detroit Motor City, Mobility, Ford Motor Company, Google Cloud Platform, Android Automotive

This is the lastest big bet by Ford, and I am guessing it won’t be the last.

Making a big bet has been the company’s MO for several years now.

When Ford Motor Company took stock of its current 60-year-old global headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, it became clear that the only way forward for the company and the culture would be to take a big leap and launch two new high-tech campuses.

Announced in 2016, the company committed an estimated $1.2 billion to a ten-year project which will move 30,000 employees from 70 buildings into a Product Campus and a Headquarters Campus.

The new campuses are part of a future that will see the Ford Smart Mobility plan executed.

The plan aims to integrate connectivity, mobility, technology, customer experience, and big data. Everything from rapid charging and car-sharing, big-data collection, and a car-swap program as well as autonomous vehicles, on-demand shuttles, and eBikes.

Ford also is spending $740 million on a project to revamp the Michigan Central Station, Detroit’s beloved historic but dilapidated former rail station, as well as other neighborhood sites, especially Corktown.

Acquired in June 2018, the station and several nearby properties that Ford now owns will anchor a 1.2 million-square-foot innovation hub that draws on talent at Ford and beyond.

The company sees the Corktown developments, along with Ford’s transformation of its Dearborn campuses as the vehicle to create a mobility corridor that will drive the future of transportation.

Ford also announced it is investing more than $1.45 billion in two southeast Michigan manufacturing facilities and adding 3,000 new jobs to strengthen its leadership in trucks and SUVs and support the company’s expansion into electric and autonomous vehicles.

At 199,000 employees and 67 plants spread across the globe, Ford's transformation and commitment to the future of mobility will be no small task.

With these new bold campuses and new partnership with Google, Ford has shown that it is building a new corporate mindset that is going to be critical as the company enters its next 100 years.

This will be exciting to watch.
Can’t build a car? This is how you can take advantage of the mobility craze.
By: Michelle Lo
Tags: Mobility, Venture Capital, Tesla, IoT, Apple

Investors;

This is an easy sell for early-stage investing. Short timelines and fast growth are on the horizon. Plus points for the businesses that develop partnerships with OEMs early in the design phase and have team members that understand the car manufacturing product timeline. Electrical hardware manufacturers that offer not just parts but architecture solutions will also be a great bet.

Industry;

Over-the-air software updates have been put into fashion by none other than Tesla and will have great implications on how vehicles needs to be designed. Car makers will now have to “future-proof” cars in order to meet very likely competitive demands of ACES features. A balance is needed between ensuring cost savings by maintaining as many carry-over designs into future cars, ensuring competitive advantage in the market for a car that is 5 years old and not putting every single hardware feature under the sun into your vehicle all at once.

Manufacturers will need to move from a distributed/independent electrical hardware structure to a centralized architecture. This means moving from alot of electrical hardware with specific functions that are highly specialized to less hardware with a domain controller or virtual domain. This gives flexibility in future software updates and functions without having to redesign the hardware that supports it.

Students;

Integration, integration, integration.

Electrical engineering — Specifically network & communications will be very valuable in the near future. Whether it is within the vehicle, from vehicle to utilities, vehicle to infrastructure — the communication structure does not currently exist. (Also plugging in that my Dad is one of the smartest people I know and this was his bread and butter)

Car Servicing— No doubt, there will be a variety of issues in the future with these vehicles with so many different softwares operating in different cars with different hardware features. Wire harness and software troubleshooting will be a valuable skill to have.

Business Development — There’s opportunity here for smaller suppliers to create partnerships with car manufacturers to develop services, business models through software. Establish those connections early between government, OEMs and businesses.
Union Budget 2021 Commentary
By: Ola Mobility Institute
Tags: Mobility, Electric Vehicles, Budget, Future Of Work, Infrastructure

By Ola Mobility Institute

Image Source: MarketFeed

The attention on ‘Travelnomics’ in the 2021–22 union budget is much appreciated. The Government has allocated a record sum of INR 1,08,230 crores to MoRTH and INR 1,07,100 crores to railways for capital expenditure. The financial allocations underscores the emphasis on improving passenger and freight mobility in the country. These capital investments will aid India’s economic recovery from the pandemic as well as propel the country on its path to a $5 trillion economy.

The Government continues its push towards environment-friendly vehicles in the budget. The voluntary vehicle scrapping policy will act as an incentive to switch from old ICE vehicles. The allocation of INR 757 crores towards the FAME scheme will further bolster India’s EV manufacturing efforts. Similarly, the emphasis on clean air through the allocation of INR 2,217 crores for 42 urban centres with a million-plus population can be expected to drive the shift in favour of EVs. However, the increase of import duty on certain auto parts to stimulate indigenous capacity building may increase the cost of EVs in the near future.

Investments in urban rail and bus infrastructure will help in raising the share of public transport. A commitment to invest INR 18,000 crores to deploy innovative PPP models in bus systems will strengthen the urban transport infrastructure. There is an opportunity to procure electric busses under this initiative and further improve the clean quotient of public transportation. Transport planners should leverage New mobility solutions delivering improvements in first and last-mile connectivity to expand the reach and impact of public transport.

Earmarking of INR 20,000 crores to set up a Development Finance Institution will help in providing critical long-term debt capital for infrastructure. This in turn can be an important lever to nudge the development of sustainable, universally accessible, inclusive and clean transport systems in the country.

The Government’s measures to provide social security benefits to the gig and platform workers mark a step in the right direction. These measures will be sustainable only when worker protection is delivered without increasing the cost of job creation. Additional stakeholder deliberations will be needed to formulate a balanced approach.

The budget presents several opportunities as India navigates out of a pandemic. We look forward to the government, the businesses, and the citizenry working together to make 2021 the year of hope.
How shared electric cars will change the mobility industry
By: Maxime Bertha
Tags: Mobility As A Service, Mobility, Uber, Ridesharing, Renewable Energy

The mobility industry is currently facing serious issues: traffic congestions, resources depletion, and climate change. The most disruptive and innovative solution to these problems is electric ride-sharing.

Congestions are increasing because the driver population is growing faster than traffic infrastructure.

The use of fossil fuels is accelerating climate change, the biggest problem humanity has ever faced. If we don't face it now and action to reverse it, our society will collapse. If we don't make our economy sustainable, we will face an unimaginably destructive crisis. It will cause wars, massive immigration, and more climate catastrophes.

Oil is a limited natural resource. At the rate we're going, shortages are coming faster than we'd like to think. When they will come, we have to be as ready as we can. We need to implement sustainable energy systems to prevent this crisis.

Private car ownership is expensive, inefficient and polluting. Driving alone is the least efficient way to transit. When only transporting one person, a driver uses the same amount of space and gas as if they were transporting two or three people. A big part the CO² emitted by a car is due to the production process. Sharing a car cuts efficiently through these emissions. Ride-sharing is a great way to transit. The ability to request a shared taxi with a simple tap on your phone is very appealing and convenient.

Electric cars use electricity as a power source. They are cheap to operate and can be fueled with renewable energy, which makes them great vehicles for ride-sharing. It will become even more efficient when driverless technology and regulation will allow fleets to operate without drivers. The market for ride-sharing is booming and people are starting to see it as a cost-effective way to transit.

However, in Brussels for example, regulators banned ride-sharing options like UberPool because traditional taxi companies were complaining. It's understandable, giving the competition it gave them. However, carpooling is a very effective way to cut CO2 emissions. It shouldn't be banned, it should be supported by politicians as well. In this context of environmental crisis, it is critically important to encourage people to use ride-sharing.

Electric ridesharing is adequately disruptive. It is convenient and useful. It is cost-effective and very efficient. It as an appropriate response to the mobility problem in cities worldwide. And I am confident we will see more and more innovative startups bringing it to market.
Micromobility Conference 2019 learnings
By: Stephen Lambe
Tags: Mobility, Transportation, Bikeshare, Micromobility

Last Thursday, I attended the Micromobility Conference in Richmond, CA, organized by Horace Dediu and James Gross. The event proved to be full of optimism, creativity and a few overly bold claims (Richmond is just across the bay from Silicon Valley after all :). Here are five of my takeaways.

For the uninitiated- what’s micromobility? It’s the unbundling of car trips using lightweight utility vehicles weighing less than 500 kg. To understand the motivations and values behind this, check out the Micromobility Manifesto.

Photographer: Sofia Hoflin/Wired

1/ To seriously expand micromobility, we must start to “cross the chasm” by converting inefficient car trips

There are many trips in cars that could be done more affordably and/or quickly with smaller vehicles. For example, NYC taxi cabs travel under two miles in an average trip (and at low speeds). Their data is shown on the chart below in green- right in between existing micromobility and cars/trucks. This shift will require new innovations around comfort, shelter/overhead protection, cargo capacity, and range.

Horace explaining one of his logarithmic charts on access and speed by mode. Micromobility trip datasets in blue, car data in yellow. Green in the middle is NYC taxi trips.

2/ Business model innovation is coming

Sanjay Dastoor, CEO of Skip Scooters, put it bluntly: “none of these business models are currently working”. Potential future directions were featured in several presentations. Pony Bikes explained how they offer the opportunity to invest in a bike that is shared on their app and revenue split between operator and partial-owner. Smide, a bike share firm from Zurich, reported its users are willing to both walk further to their bike (since their bikes are very high quality) and to reposition its fleet (with compensation). Beyond the conference, don’t forget JUMP’s email last summer about leasing a bike for $50/month or Bird’s Platform franchise model. There are drawbacks with each of these ideas, but experimentation is the right answer.
Come visit us at MOVE 2019
Tags: Mobility, Move, Transportation, Door2door, Technology

door2door is participating at MOVE 2019. Join us at this groundbreaking mobility event taking place 12–13 February 2019 at the ExCel venue in London, United Kingdom. Meet our experts at our booth and don’t miss out on the thought-leading presentation of our Co-CEO and Founder, Tom Kirschbaum. Find all the information you need below:

Where can you find us?

Stand 14: Come visit our stand which is just in front of the main stage

Who is attending from door2door?

Book a meeting with our experts in advance!

Speakers

Who: Tom Kirschbaum, Co-CEO & Founder at door2door

Where: Models Theatre

When: Day 1 at 5 pm

Title: Keeping shared mobility profits within local regions

In his presentation Tom will talk about how cooperation between public and private entities can lead to a truly sustainable and inclusive mobility system, boosting the role of public transport, reclaiming cities from cars and handing them back to their citizens. He will present a roadmap on a new mobility ecosystem and show how the symbiosis of advanced mobility technology and experienced PTOs to build one integrated system will lead to a fair distribution of profits and improve the quality of mobility for all citizens.

We look forward to meeting with you at MOVE 2019

We believe that the conference theme Mobility Re-Imagined offers a great opportunity to exchange visions and action plans for better mobility.

As a technology provider, door2door accompanies transport companies and cities in the digital transformation of their mobility and provide software-based solutions, services and consulting.

Together we work to make public transport more sustainable and efficient. Individual mobility without a car has to be made more attractive — whether in cities or rural areas. Our Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform for data-driven analysis & planning, multimodal apps and on-demand mobility solutions helps public transport to become more customizable and convenient.

Follow us on social media to stay updated on our presence at the event:

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Introducing Feonix — Mobility Rising
By: Valerie Lefler
Tags: Mobility As A Service, Mobility, Disability Rights, Transportation, Maas

As a new face in the transportation innovation space, Feonix is the person-centered approach to supporting communities in creating “mobility as a service” also known as “MaaS”.

Feonix Logo

MaaS is a transportation technology innovation framework that is destined to change the utilization of how we as society move in our communities.

Feonix believes that as communities around the world begin to embrace and think about this latest, greatest “MaaS” technology, we need to focus on those most vulnerable first, and build our community’s mobility ecosystems to factor in their needs from day one.

Market researchers are forecasting “MaaS” to be a $250 billion industry by 2023 and the wave is just beginning to hit with pilots launching around the globe. With all that cash to go around and the momentum for “profit” there must be a focus as well on “purpose” or we are set to recreate the past.

It is not about the retroactive process of making systems that have “special accommodations” for seniors, individuals with disabilities, veterans, refugees, and families in crisis — we should design mobility solutions to be “inclusive and equitable” and factor in their needs in the first place.

If we do not address the “digital divide” with this latest revolution in mobility innovation — we are set to create a mobility “Grand Canyon” and those who need us most, those left behind with fragmented systems of “accommodation” the past 30 years, are positioned to be pushed off the ledge, if we do not re-prioritize our design thinking.

Feonix is currently collaborating in communities across the United States in Wisconsin, Missouri, Michigan, South Carolina, and Texas to deploy MaaS for vulnerable populations.

In every community, we support local leaders in bringing change, brainstorming solutions, implementing technology, starting new volunteer driver programs, and finding ways to support and advocate for those most in need.

We look forward to sharing about the communities we serve and our journey as an innovator in this new emerging space.

— Valerie Lefler, Executive Director, Feonix — Mobility Rising
Flutter — How it drives the next mobile Generation
By: Sandeep Kumar
Tags: Mobility, Flutter, React, Dart, Cross Platform

All we know that the mobile world is ruled by two giants IOS and Android. In the real-time world, it was very hard to keep consistency, resource management, time efficiency by keeping separate application for both IOS and Android. So people start to thinks about cross-platform. There is a lot of cross-platform avail in the market.

Some of them Are :

React Native — Facebook Owned cross-platform

Xamarin — — Microsoft Owned cross-platform

Ionic — — Independent

phoneGap — Adobe Owned Cross-platform

Flutter — Google-owned Cross-platform

Source: Google-Form

All of them have its own advantages and disadvantages.Here we going to discuss flutter and how it wins over other platforms

“Flutter is an open Source SDK developed by Google to build IOS and Android application at the same time”

Wondered? Yes, flutter is not a language, it was an SDK. The language used in flutter was DART.

Why Flutter :

Performance

Rather than creating a wrapper on the overlay of native(IOS/Android), it creates its own native UI using c++ 2D library Called “SKIA”. It Makes the compilation very quick and native felling to the app.

UI Components are Widget Based

In flutter, Google introduces a new approach to UI components. All components are in widget manner. Google provides a Wide range of Widgets that can build a beautiful application in a hassle-free manner.

Hot Reload

Like React Native, We can reload the frame without compiling the code. It will Reduce the time for compilation and test the changes

Platform-Based Code

We can make a specific design as per the platform. That means we can create apps look and feel as per android and IOS pattern

Extensible with third-party libraries

Even it was a small and starting community, there is a lot of third party plugins and widgets available for Flutter. It makes the development so easy and hassle-free

Dart Language

Dart is a modern language developed by Google in 2011. It was easy o capture and holds all oops concepts of Java and C++.

Using Dart, We can avoid javascript bridging and provide native feeling.

Cons of Flutter :

Stability

Flutter is still in release and development mode. Still, it shows so many problems as it was new guy and lack of support from the developer team also not good

Community and lack of third-party

As we said it was a starting language, lack of community and third-party plugins are also makes problems. Sometimes

developers stuck on hours for resolving issues.

Size

Flutter apps are bigger in size that compared to native IOS/Android apps. Size will increase more than 50 % when we create the app in flutter

Native feature Support

As still in the development stage, there is a lack of support in like Bluetooth, camera. For these features, we need to create separate code for IOS/Android

Conclusion :

still, flutter in the development stage, in coming years, it will lead the mobility platform and when OS like fuchsia os came, the share of flutter will dramatically increase.
Using scooter data to make room for micromobility on our streets and in our cities
By: Regina Clewlow
Tags: Mobility, Bikes, Data, Cities, Transportation

The rise of micromobility has offered us the chance to rethink how we use our streets — with access to better data

Since shared electric scooters and bikes hit the streets, urban planners have grappled with how best to manage and plan for these new services that have taken cities by storm. One of the exciting opportunities that has emerged along with the rise of micromobility, is the rise of newfound access to vast amounts of data for cities to plan for the future of transportation, and to rethink how we prioritize the space on our streets.

How we used scooter data to identify new opportunities for protected lanes

Populus is a trusted third-party data platform solution that securely delivers data from shared operators of scooters, bikes, and cars to cities for transportation policy and planning. We ingest vehicle location and trip data that new city regulations require of mobility operators in exchange for the privilege to deploy services on their streets, sidewalks, and curbs.

Now delivering data in over 40 cities, with the world’s largest micromobility operators, the Populus team specializes in extracting key insights that urban planners need and want to determine how to integrate growing fleets of shared services into the fabric of our cities — only a job that the public sector can do.

That’s why we’re excited to introduce Populus Routes, a new advanced tool in our Populus Mobility Manager platform that enables cities to easily visualize where scooter trips take place. Armed with validated data about hundreds (and often millions) of scooter trips in their cities, planners can decide where to place protected bike and scooter lanes for people to safely use these services.

Populus Routes now delivers data for millions of scooter trips

Populus receives vehicle trip data from bike and scooter operators in standard formats that we process to help cities view popular origins, destinations, and travel routes. Using trip level data, we aggregate volumes across road segments and paths throughout a city. The aggregation of trips prevents the ability to identify individual trips or people, which has become a growing privacy concern. With data securely processed and obfuscated by transportation planners and scientists with decades of experience, operators are assured that their data is protected, and cities are confident that they have access to the essential information they need to manage these new services.

The road ahead

We are excited to continue to partner with cities and fleet operators to help them work together to expand access to sustainable mobility solutions in cities. In addition to our parking management tools, which help cities and operators identify and enforce designated parking areas for scooters to ensure pedestrian safety, Populus is continuously expanding features for cities and mobility operators to deliver shared mobility that is safe, equitable, and sustainable.
BAF Enters Partnership with the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative
By: Blockchain Acceleration Foundation
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Mobility, Blockchain Education

The Blockchain Acceleration Foundation entered a partnership with the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), a global nonprofit automotive consortium working to improve mobility using blockchain, distributed ledgers, and related technologies.

As part of the MOBI community, the Blockchain Acceleration Foundation (BAF) will recruit interested student members to collaborate with MOBI’s corporate partners and participate in their initiatives.

“We are excited to begin working to establish credible blockchain and distributed ledger standards across the mobility industry and beyond,” said BAF President Cameron Dennis. “The opportunity to collaborate with MOBI’s strong network is a major development for BAF, and we look forward to participating in upcoming initiatives like the MOBI Grand Challenge.”

The three-year, four-part Grand Challenge invites participants to improve urban environments by exploring blockchain solutions for smart city applications. BAF’s next steps include sourcing developers from its network of California and Mexico-based student blockchain organizations to participate in the challenge, which recently concluded its first phase. The upcoming phase, called Citopia, asks participants to develop tokenized incentives to improve human behavior and make cities greener, smarter, safer, and healthier.

In addition to participating in and sourcing funds for the Grand Challenge, BAF will engage with MOBI’s working groups. These groups have been organized to explore specific use cases within the mobility industry and to establish common means to define, measure, and test quality, performance, and security. MOBI’s five current groups work to develop blockchain applications that address mobility challenges related to Vehicle Identity, Usage-Based Insurance, Autonomous Vehicle Data Markets, Supply Chain, and Electric Vehicle Grid Integration.

“Our goal with this partnership is to expose students to the practical solutions that blockchain technology can provide to a crucial topic like mobility,” said BAF Chief Operating Officer and Vice President Piergiacomo Palmisani. “This is an issue that particularly affects everyday life of those who live in Southern California, which is the majority of our students.”

MOBI counts the majority of the world’s large automakers as members, including BMW, Groupe Renault, GM, Honda, and Ford. Other community members include institutional organizations such as The World Economic Forum and The Ministry of Transport for the Republic of China and Denso, and leading companies like IBM, Accenture, ConsenSys, IOTA, and VeChain.

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The European startup landscape of New Car Ownership — 2020
By: Aster Capital
Tags: Mobility, Startup, Landscape, Cars, Venture Capital

By Clara Juppé

We are on the verge of a huge shift in the way we move.

Car ownership has long been perceived as a symbol of independence and played an important role in marking one’s success. However, times are changing.

Today, it’s becoming increasingly easier to get around cities in private vehicles without having to own one. Car renting, carpooling, carsharing, and other alternative car ownership platforms have led to billions of new mobility patterns, which is in turn shaping the automotive industry. And for younger people, buying a car is beginning to be viewed as both a hassle and a waste of money (not to mention an environmental disaster as more people are living in cities!)

Mobility being one of the areas we are passionate about at Aster, we wanted to share the European startup landscape of New Car Ownership that we put together.

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We organized the Car Ownership landscape into the 8 categories listed below:

Ride sharing: startups that enable shared rides between drivers and passengers that have similar origins and destination pairings.

Car sharing: startups that enable customers to use a vehicle on a short-term basis, whether it’s for a couple hours, days or weeks, at unattended self-service locations 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

Short-term car rental: startups that enable customers to rent a vehicle on a short-term basis, whether it’s for a couple of days or weeks, based on a stationary model.

Car subscription: startups that enable customers to use a vehicle for an all-inclusive fee, including insurance. Car-as-a-Service (CaaS) or car subscription is a growing segment in the value chain.

Sales & leasing: startups that enable customers to own a vehicle, through an increasingly digital user journey, and with financing agreements over a defined period.

AFTERMARKET

Spare parts: startups that sell or enable customers to buy replacement parts that are made by a company other than the car’s original manufacturer.

Maintenance: startups that enable customers to service a vehicle to keep it from having a major breakdown.

Aftermarket telematics: startups that sell telematics devices made by a company other than the car’s original manufacturer, which are retrofitted into vehicles via OBD-II.

Despite these evolutions, we believe that car ownership will not disappear yet because of the Car bundle. More information on that in this article: https://danco.substack.com/p/the-car-bundle
Menstrual cup Market Report 2019 | Realizing the growth factors with Anigan, LifeCup, Soft Cup, IrisCup, SckoonCup, Monzcare, Mooncup, MeLuna, Femmycycle, The Keeper, Lunette, Diva
By: Shreya Mali
Tags: Womens Health, Hygiene, Manufacturing

The menstrual cup is a sanitary device for women that is inserted into the vagina during menstruation. Its purpose is to collect menstrual fluid (blood from the endometrium) and prevent it from leaking into clothes. Menstrual cups are generally made of flexible medical grade silicone and shaped like a bell with a stem. The stem is used for insertion and removal. The bell cup seals the vaginal wall just below the cervix.

Menstrual market reports are being researched and present practical ideas to the key contributors who work there. A thorough survey of the competitive landscape of the world’s menstrual cup market provides insights into company profiles, financial conditions, recent developments, mergers and acquisitions, and SWOT analysis.

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Key players in Menstrual Cups Market: Anigan, LifeCup, Soft Cup, IrisCup, SckoonCup, Monzcare, Mooncup, MeLuna, Femmycycle, The Keeper, Lunette, Diva

Menstrual Cups market segmentation based on material type:

· Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE)

· Natural Gum Rubber (Latex)

· Silicon

Menstrual cup market segmentation based on product type:

· Disposable menstrual cup

· Reusable menstrual cup

Menstrual Cups market segmentation based on distribution channel:

· Online Shop

· Drugstore

· Supermarkets

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Direct To Consumer 2020
By: David Goodwin
Tags: Business, Manufacturing, Dtc, Cpg, Retail

In recent years manufactures of consumer packaged goods(CPG) have had three options to deliver products to consumers. The one that made the most change prior to this year have been online retailers who often promote their products before other brands and also send “substitutions” in place of the intended product. The more traditional distribution channel have been retail stores which have always been an effort in seeking shelf space and competing with store brands. Traditional retail was also making the turn to go online prior to 2020. In 2020 it has been direct to consumer (DTC) that has seen a sudden uptick.

In a year where going to the store has been prohibitive many consumers preferring in person retail have gotten increasingly more comfortable with online purchasing. This combined with shortages that have occurred this year led many consumers to use DTC sites for the first time.

The advantage to consumers of online retail is choice, speed, and price. The advantage to consumers of DTC is knowing they will get the product requested. These two different modes of consumer behavior would be brand loyal for DTC and switchers for online retail.

Combined with the increase in DTC along with the unique consumers that utilize it there is an opportunity for high volume manufactures to deliver directly to the consumer in addition to selling in areas where there is a high amount of interest. Online retail is optimized for choice and speed which have the product go through many different types of handling to the final destination requiring more robust packaging. Delivering directly to consumers means less chance of post manufacturer mishandling of products. In addition DTC consumers are more concerned with staying stocked with a product which opens up the willingness for periodic deliveries via a subscription. Delivering to consumers on a schedule is a level of optimization not available to online retailers.

While online retailers, traditional retail, nor direct to consumer is going away opportunities have changed.