Category: Trends

Trends

Demand Responsive Transport (DRT): Where does it fit in? – E-Learning Course

In our quest to reveal the role of DRT in reshaping urban mobility, we’ve created a comprehensive free e-learning course titled “Demand Responsive Transport (DRT): Where does it fit in?”

This course, available for free on Urban Mobility Courses, is designed to empower individuals and professionals with the knowledge needed to navigate the dynamic landscape of modern transportation effectively.

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Global Employee Health & Fitness Month

May is Global Employee Health and Fitness Month. Our focus this month is commuting and how shared mobility offerings, particularly active modes, can encourage workplace health and fitness, with a return on investment for employees – both socially and financially.

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Multimodal Transportation in India: Interview with Monalisha Thakur from Tummoc

We first met Monalisha and Tummoc when they became an outstanding applicant for our 2023 EmpowerWISM program. We were highly impressed with Tummoc’s goal to reverse the downwards trend in the use of public transport in urban India. Their MaaS app helps to track and find actionable & accurate intracity travel information for the bus/metro/suburban rail. Their goals is to be the go-to B2B and B2C transit system provider in the industry and are hoping to go live in around 25+ cities by the end of this Financial Year.

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EmpowerWISM 2023 Award Ceremony

This week, on Tuesday January 31st, we hosted the Empower Women in Shared Mobility Pitch, virtual Award Ceremony. We’d like to thank everyone that tuned in to show their support for this years amazing finalists. Each of our 17 applicants inspired us with their passion and dedication to their chosen field within the shared mobility sector and we’d also like to say big thank you to everyone who was brave enough to apply this year – you are ALL winners in our book.

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EmpowerWISM 2023: Top 3 Finalists

We have just 1 days remaining until we unveil the winner of the 2023 Empower Women in Shared Mobility Program at our virtual award ceremony (register for your spot here!) However, our judges have been hard at work behind the scenes, reviewing and discussing each of the top 5 applications, using the EmpowerWISM criteria to whittle it down to the Top 3.

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Meet The 17 EmpowerWISM 2023 Candidates

Thank you so much to all the wonderful and innovative women-led companies that applied for this year’s Empower Women in Shared Mobility 2023 Award! To recap, our Empower Women in Shared Mobility Pitch is a program dedicated to encouraging and empowering women-led companies within the shared mobility industry. This year, the prize package is the biggest one yet! See below. The EmpowerWISM panel of judges have begun the extremely difficult task of choosing the top 5 finalists and winner from this years cohort! 

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movmi’s Top Moments of 2022

As another year comes to an end, we wanted to take this opportunity to reflect on the last 12 months and to share some of our top moments as a team and as a company. In this blog post, we take a look back at 2022 and offer a re-cap of some of our company highlights.

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EmpowerWISM: Jury Panel & Prizes

Every year our EmpowerWISM panel of judges is carefully selected to ensure we have an array of highly established and diverse experts within the transportation industry. This year it is no different. The skillsets and experience each panelist brings to the table is unique with backgrounds in both the public and private sectors. Our aim was to enlist the expertise of men and women who have been involved with other female-orientated programs, promoting equality and inclusivity, particularly within the mobility arena.

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TAC Conference & Exhibition: movmi’s Highlights

The TAC Conference & Exhibition was hosted by Alberta Transportation in partnership with the City of Edmonton and the City of Calgary from Oct 2-5 at the Edmonton Convention Centre. movmi’s Venkatesh Gopal attended on behalf of movmi and was part of the ‘Curbside Management and Design Solutions for New Mobility’ panel.

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Empower Women in Shared Mobility: 2023 Pitch

In order to bridge the gender gap and to create a more balanced and equitable transportation ecosystem, we need more women making decisions at the table. That is why we are looking for women entrepreneurs that are tackling the transportation problems of tomorrow for our EmpowerWISM 2023 Program.

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Shared Mobility in Pop Culture: TV & Movies

As young families, professionals and students opt for shared mobility and transit-oriented city dwellings, popular culture seems to be catching on, including what we watch on the big screen. Here are 10 times shared mobility and micromobility was spotted featuring in recent T.V. shows and movies.

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A Love Letter To Our Mobility Heroes

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we thought we would craft the ultimate love letter to you, our mobility heroes, both past and present. As part of our love letter, we wanted to share some of the critical work you amazing women are currently doing in the transportation sector and also some of the work and actions that have inspired us, from our transportation heroes of the past.

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Partner Spotlight
Trends

Partner Spotlight: Trakk, ATOM and ioki

In our #PartnerSpotlight series, we wish to share what we have learnt so far about our partners and how they see their solutions solving today’s transportation challenges. This month we explore how some of the smarter shared mobility solutions out there (our partners) are able to make operations more efficient and financially viable for operators. We picked a multimodal mix for this month, from corporate shuttles and rides, to on demand transit and AV ridehailing, to micromobility modes. 

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Financial Fridays: Bringing Carsharing to Properties

For the fifth session of our Financial Fridays series this year, movmi is joined by Thomas Martin, Director of Business Development at SWTCH, Judith Häberli, Co-Founder and CEO at Urban Connect AG and Galina Russell, Senior Vice President at REEF. In this webinar, the panel discusses bringing carshare (especially EVs) to your property.

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5 climate change success stories
Climate Change

5 Climate Change Success Stories

Change does not usually happen overnight, especially within the transportation sector. Our vision of a sustainable transportation eco-system, significantly reducing GHG emissions and effectively turning the tide on climate change, just isn’t progressing as fast as we would like and this can be disheartening.

However, we have seen climate change success stories over the last few years, that have given us hope and the encouragement to continue working to reduce GHG emissions and to fight climate change.

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Financial Fridays

FINANCIAL FRIDAYS: THE BUSINESS OF SUBSCRIPTION

For the fourth session of our Financial Fridays series this year, movmi is joined by Ramu Nair, Head of Sales and Partnerships at INVERS, Sergio Acevedo, Director of Business Development at Launch Mobility and Kevin McLaughlin, CEO at Zygg e-bike Subscription. Over the last 18 months we have seen subscription as a business model gain a lot of traction across many modes and markets. In this webinar, the panel discusses what exactly makes this model so desirable to the user.

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PARTNER SPOTLIGHT: INTERVIEW WITH EDDIE INLOW, FOUNDER & CEO OF SHIFT TRANSIT

This is the first edition of movmi’s Partner Spotlight interview series. We truly believe that cultivating partnerships is the key to successful shared mobility. Today we have over 60 partners and this series will give you insights into the exceptional innovation happening across our network. This month, movmi’s Venkatesh Gopal chats with Eddie Inlow, the CEO of Shift Transit. Shift is an urban mobility operations company that manages more than 25,000 bikes, scooters, carsharing vehicles, and microtransit vans on a daily basis.

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