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.
We might be in the middle of spooky season right now, but no one wants to feel afraid when using micromobility services. Though fall might
Our in-person minglers are back! We hosted our first event (since the pandemic) two weeks ago at Steamworks Brewery in Vancouver and had a fantastic
This October, we are celebrating Global Diversity Awareness Month by checking in with, and paying tribute to, a few of the amazing women founders (and their companies) we had the pleasure of meeting during last year’s Empower Women in Shared Mobility Program. We had applicants from almost every continent, each one striving to make our planet a better place to live, by helping us move around easier and safer.
Now that we have resumed normal travel behaviour (in a post-pandemic world) towns and cities across the globe are working hard to give tourists a
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.
Given the rising popularity of cargo bikes for delivery and personal transportation purposes, there’s been a simultaneous surge in demand for cargo bike-sharing solutions.
Last month CityAge Canada invited the Candian creators, investors, builders and policy-shapers who are reimagining how we build, live and work within our cities to speak at their digital event. This panel of experts for ‘Transforming Our Cities For The Future’ including movmi’s very own, Venkatesh Gopal.
Last month’s Vancouver Entrepreneur Forum (VEF) event brought together innovators and experts from a mix of industries for a discussion on the Future of Transportation. movmi was delighted to partner up with VEF for this event to bring back our in-person ‘Mobility Minglers.’ A big thank you to everyone in our network who attended the event – we were so happy to connect with you IRL!
In this article we take a look at the origins of the bicycle and bikesharing systems and list the key benefits that bikesharing offers for the user, the operator and for cities. Happy World Bicycle Day!
The 2022 Transportation Forum, hosted by Deloitte, featured leaders from both government and industry who discussed these important issues through keynotes and informative panel discussions on the future of transportation and mobility in our region.
One of the experts included as a panelist in this Forum was movmi’s Founder and CEO, Sandra Phillips who took part in Session Two: Urban Mobility: Innovation and technology for a better quality of life. Keep reading for a short summary of this discussion.
We explore the growth of the e-scooter industry, the benefits of having shared e-scooter options within our cities and which Canadian cities will be the next to launch their own shared e-scooter fleets.
In this whitepaper, movmi provides a brief evaluation of the technological capabilities of the scooters offered to the public by leading scooter-sharing companies. Four shared micromobility operators participated in demo day trials that were conducted by movmi: these were Bird Canada, Link, Neuron and Roll.
Small businesses are critical to our worldwide economy, especially in the shared mobility space. Globally, the majority of employers are small and medium sized business
In this article we review the different types of micromobility business models, offer advice on how to build a micromobility business model to suit your needs and use movmi’s own case studies to explore the challenges and successes of different micromobility business models.
In honour of St.Patrick’s Day this year, the team at movmi nominated me (their very own Irish expat! ☘️) to write an article, about my personal experience of transportation and shared mobility living in Ireland. Northern Ireland to be exact.
In this article I discuss my personal experience with transportation in Ireland, including both public and private options… or the lack of.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
In each episode of ‘Global Mobility’ we will be working alongside our intercontinental partners who will be speaking with local industry experts to give you an up-to-date look at what’s happening on the ground in each country. This month, we are back in Brazil with our partner Humberto Maciel, Founder of OPTAI. In episode three, the panel of experts discuss how to develop a truly intelligent mobility system within different cities. The impact micromobility and electric vehicles have on population health and if decarbonizing shared mobility and creating completely sustainable, zero emission mobility is truly possible.
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.
This week, on Monday 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 19 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.
With only 4 days left until the Empower Women in Shared Mobility 2022 virtual award ceremony – it’s time to announce the TOP 3 FINALISTS! Plus we’ll spotlight this year’s ‘outstanding applicant’ and introduce this year’s award ceremony MC, the amazing Crissy Ditmore!
The EmpowerWISM panel of judges have begun the very hard task of choosing the top 5 finalists and winner from this years amazing group of applicants! In case you our new to the EmpoweWISM Pitch, here is a recap:
Our Empower Women in Shared Mobility Pitch is a program dedicated to encouraging and empowering women-led companies within the shared mobility industry. The winning mobility venture (as voted for by our panel of expert judges) will receive a 12 month mentoring package from movmi, a start-up booth at Autonomy Paris and return flights to Paris provided by INVERS.
e received 19 applications in total and wanted to share with you an overview of the entrants. Keep reading to find out the focus areas of each company, where they are located in the world and the women majority of each company!
As 2021 draws to an end, as a team, we decided to take a look back over the last 12 months at everything we accomplished as a company. In this blog post we will be sharing our top moments of the year, including;
– The projects we’ve worked on
– The people we spoke to and collaborated with
– Our favourite movmi campaigns and initiatives
We have partnered with some truly exceptional companies to bring our EmpowerWISM Pitch to life this year including. They have supported us by promoting the Empower Women in Shared Mobility Pitch and by offering a few amazing prizes for the winner! Keep reading to find out what those prizes are.
2014, the company develops a technology platform that enables companies, cities and startups to launch and scale new mobility services. Froh joins from Airbnb, where he played a senior role in its internationalization until late 2013.
021! This month Sandra is joined by a group of four experts with a vast array of skills and experience. Aurelien Cottet is the International Sales Director from instant system, Bertrand Attard is the COO of GoTo Global, Haya Verwoord Douidri, VP of Global Market Development, Policy and Strategy at Superpedestrian and Camile dos Santos Machado, Project Manager, New Mobility at TransLink. Our exciting mix of experts discuss how they put the ‘S’ in MaaS to provide the best customer experience for their users.
Last month the movmi team took to the streets of Vancouver for a demo day with LINK e-scooters from Superpedestrian. They are currently looking to enter the Canadian market and have hired movmi’s team to provide strategic guidance. movmi’s work with LINK is focused on two areas: community engagement and a deployment plan.
Check out the movmi team in action! 🛴 Read the full article to find out what we thought of LINK’s e-scooters!
In this blog post we summarize Sandra Phillips’ IMPACT festival, 2021 keynote speech on ‘How to re-organize mobility infrastructure’ as well as Prof. Dr. Marco te Brömmelstroet’s keynote on ‘The Tunnel Vision of Mobility Thinking.’
In this article we explain how MaaS:
1. Creates a reliable, seamless multimodal user experience.
2. Improves visibility for MSPs in a sea of options available to users.
3. Ultimately increases alternatives for the users and create a rewarding ecosystem for existing and new MSPs to offer the best of their services towards a multimodal future.
Chances are that not a day goes by where you do not reach for your smartphone. Sending a message to a friend on another continent
This month, movmi’s Venkatesh Gopal chats with João Félix, Founder and CEO at Mobiag – a shared mobility technology pioneer powering free-floating, round-trip and station-based car-sharing, car rental, and scooter-sharing businesses around the globe. Their tools – the latest hardware for numerous vehicle models, customizable mobile apps for iOS and Android, and open SAAS with dynamic third party integrations – are robust and flexible, empowering businesses to implement their innovative business and operational models.
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