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01 MOVING THE CITY
OF THE FUTURE
Cities provide their inhabitants with a variety of goods, from housing space
to areas for working and leisure activities. More than ever, mobility constitutes
an essential pillar of urban living and an engine for economic prosperity.
Mobility solutions need to keep pace with customers’ changing requirements
concerning flexibility, comfort, and ecology.
Currently, cities and their representatives face a variety of challenges in
realizing forward-looking mobility. On the one hand, they have to deal
with short-term congestion and the provision of peak capacities, while
sensitivity and regulations for ecological sustainability are increasing. On
the other hand, the mobility landscape is changing as customers demand
ever more flexible, customized, and integrated mobility solutions. Cities
have to find ways to bring these diverse demands together holistically.
Fresh ideas for affordable, efficient, and connected mobility solutions
are already emerging. Such solutions place greater emphasis on forward-looking
concepts such as asset sharing concepts, electromobility,
and autonomous driving. In the future, we can anticipate a further integration
of technology and service offerings leading to ubiquitous connectivity
of people, things and infrastructure. Based on innovative physical
and data infrastructure, total connectivity will redefine how we move
people and goods around.
The future mobility ecosystem will draw on extensive amounts of data,
system interfaces, and cooperation between public and private market
participants. These are dramatic changes which require new approaches
for private-sector companies to manage complexity and to create value
for shareholders and society.