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This year is the 10th anniversary of my decision to devote myself to the creation of the models of social changes. After banging my head against the wall, trying to scale the default coworking business model, I realized that only city-wide catalyst models such as smart city can survive and are ones of the pillars of the future of coworking business as well as cities itself.

It took some time when I tried to persuade the atomized community of small coworking owners that our model will not sustain and will probably end up very, very soon, but they didn’t want to listen. Next year, the network of publicly financed spaces turned up into business, disrupting the co-working space in every major city.

It was 2011, but of course, it was yet not what is coming now, when the main international networks are opening a multitude of huge spaces in the capital cities, using deep pockets of VC bankers and property managers and owners.

Warm, organic community growth generated by its leaders — it’s time to say goodbye. The future is in large corporate global coworking behemots.

Well, I foresighted that too. But in fact, the problem of coworking and the growth of these amazing communities (in Poland) lay somewhere else, than a lot of people think, and I hope I’m right on this. Poland is brain-drained, and the number of freelancers and creatives on the market is not growing, but even decreasing!

The problem can stand like this: how to encourage the average tee drinking person (from outside of creative industries) to fill all of the new transformed places? In other words: how to make people learn and become creative for the purpose of office rental to grow?

Introducing serious gaming can be one of the solutions. In Poland, we developed a complex model of how to get secondary schools and technical schools’ students on board of smart city and into the creative industry but it’s for another story.

In some cities, the important issue is how to not rent buildings to corporate employees, but how to use the growing number of freelancers, digital nomads and creative industries to fill new floors in new, sophisticated buildings and even neighborhoods.

We need to rethink that on a big scale. What you do not see in the small business sheet, is what large operators see. And they are making the impact right now.

The revolution will soon come over how the city is treated, used and perceived. For more and more people, city spaces become a meeting platform where they share time for creative activities with other people. As a reminder, for most of us, city streets are still the means of the fastest transfer between work and home and visiting many strange offices in order to get along with life in the so-called society. But this era is going to the end according to Toffler theory of The Third Wave. (and many others).

Reality changes quickly and aims to transform most experiences according to new paradigms and new reality. When we talk, new technologies “eat” workplaces and administrative bodies one by one. The new reality is about convergence, experience, sensitivity to all activities related to science and useful society or urban activities.

Step by step, engaging people in new social models such as coworking, as well as smart city, we as frontier innovators introduce expectations to a whole new level for the citizens. And imagine how competitive the city will be, after being completely reorganized to facilitate the coworking culture in its all places and spaces. The new intelligent digital layer of the social city will finally emanate in different forms.

The most important coworking values: community, cooperation, openness can be a great foundation for building other smart city solutions on it.

At this point, I really want to encourage the coworking and startup community to cooperate with municipal offices to facilitate and promote new socio-economic models, such as cooperation platforms, sharing economy and social entrepreneurship.
Why it’s so important?

In July 2011, Mitsui Fudosan announced its new concept, Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City, based on three pillars: environment symbiosis, health and longevity, and creation of new industry.

Gate Square, which serves as the center of the smart city and brings together offices, residences, retail space, a hotel, and academic facilities, encourages interaction among the residents of the area, as well as those who commute to the city to work. (@Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. )

The city’s perspective offers access to all taxpayers, and all this means that communication takes place in all urban social groups. At the same time, there is no way for city administration by themselves to adapt to the new disruptive innovation in enough fast pace because of the development opportunities have always will be stalled in administrative and budgetary never-ending processes.

The line of cooperation between city halls and coworking and startups must be marked. If they all have an impact, cities can grow well and live fully. But what exactly is a smart city? it is about citizens in all aspects of their lives and development using the latest technological advances, as well as methods for integrating and empowering people to take the driver seat in cities.

So what concerned me and what I’m talking about in the Smart City Podcast is that if, in fact, startups offering services to their citizens are often placed in coworking. So I assumed what the future role of this community for the city might be of great importance. Recognizing the positive effect of gathering creative people in post-industrial districts in order to revitalize it gives me hope that the urban strategy will eventually include a systematic approach to support and benefits for local communities.

But it is not what always happens. In most cases the positive effect of this coalition is consumed by private business not the city itself.

There is still a clash between the old-fashioned archaic hierarchy and the partial approach to city management, and new grassroots impulses. The new urbanists concepts are about driving development through the combination of ideas, products that enable the crowd’s wisdom in creating the city. So-called smart city 3.0 approach. But what cannot be combined in an old paradigm with only an improvement called sometimes “creative” or “smart” can be combined into a completely new model of an intelligent city, and ultimately it will replace those catching up and still converting cities.

What is to come is, of course, standardized as a framework for programming applications for “i-stores” and “app markets” for city creators and visionaries. It is not possible to maintain the basic needs of citizens’ tools based on a certain form of capitalist/market-oriented intermediary operating from the sky and oceans. Everything will be brought to local clouds and as close as it can be to the community of people adopting these independent standards, these standards will be introduced at the EU level or at the global level.

The re-orientation of the use of common communication / technology platforms and the emergence of new interfaces will also be achieved thanks to new data transfer standards (such 5G) and a fundamental change of the current system’s pillars, such as financial transactions (Fintech), as well as fluid law enforcement and liquidity through blockchain, as well as distributed and reliable databases.

Imagine what will happen if all applications are just a larger complex system that will allow cities to do just better. And I do not want to issue a label — or a brand for it (if I may i’ll name it City2.0neOS) Certainly the aggregation and the process of setting standards for cities can be a process that will end with a completely new ecosystem for innovation and unveiling our living to the fullest, and this is what it is all about.

SpaceOS is a smart technology, creating smart buildings and smart offices by letting workspaces turn the physical spaces into digital assets.

So in my opinion, a new model of cities based on a foundation of Open Source idea (Github and Linux are the greater examples) will be created. It will be standing on the values that create a coworking movement, and this model will be a combination of well-known solutions and applications in a standardized interurban form that will be developed by the community for its own purposes and best interests. And what’s best this movement is vibrant and alive and it’s happening all over the world. I hope in my best will that in the best solution and it is unstoppable and impossible to reverse.

Write to me if you want to learn more about the idea of a coworking city!

mateusz.jarosiewicz@smartcitiespolska.org

De komende jaren zal het Nederlandse wagenpark ingrijpend veranderen. Het percentage elektrische voertuigen is momenteel weliswaar nog zeer klein, maar zal naar verwachting de komende jaren sterk gaan groeien. Dat gaat zonder twijfel leiden tot forse problemen in het elektriciteitsnetwerk van ons land. Er is daarom veel nieuwe kennis en veel slimme ICT nodig om de smart mobility-oplossingen waaraan nu wordt gewerkt straks ook daadwerkelijk mogelijk te maken.

Nog afgezien van de vraag of het grid wel in staat zal zijn om te gaan met de snelle groei van elektriciteit opgewekt door windmolens en zonnepanelen, gaat de vraag naar elektrische energie ook nog eens drastisch veranderen. Het moment waarop met name zonne-energie kan worden opgewekt sluit namelijk niet aan op de tijdstippen waarop de vraag naar elektrische energie wel eens zou kunnen gaan pieken. Elektrische auto’s zullen immers vooral ‘s avonds worden opgeladen, terwijl overdag de meeste zonne-energie wordt opgewekt. Daarom wordt in het kader van het Europese EV-Energy project gekeken naar technieken en tools waarmee deze mismatch kan worden voorkomen of kan worden bijgestuurd.

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In 2018 had de Nederlandse Ambassade in Riga (LV) de eer om het staatsbezoek van Zijne Majesteit de Koning Willem-Alexander aan Letland te organiseren. Als vervolg op het staatsbezoek organiseert de Nederlandse Ambassade in Letland een hackathon getiteld: “The Future of Mobility – Get Connected! Smart Mobility and Sustainable Logistics” op 19-21 februari 2019 in Riga. Het evenement zal de economische relatie tussen Nederland en Letland bevorderen en kansen bieden voor innovatie, alsook de startups aantrekken van de sectoren transport, logistiek en mobiliteit.

Gedurende 48 uur zal 100 tal deelnemers (in teams bestaande uit minimaal 3 en maximaal 5 personen) uit het bedrijfsleven en de publieke sector aan duurzame en innovatieve oplossingen werken. De vier thema’s zijn Altertnative Mobility, Navigation and Innovative Use of Traffic Data, Smart Urban Logistics, Mobility as a Service. Ze zullen dit doen aan de hand van Nederlandse en Letse challenges, gebruikmakend van databases uit beide landen. Onze partners voor dit evenement zijn hackathon orhanisatoren Garage48 en de Letse grootste telecommunicatiebedrijf Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (LMT). De hackathon zal plaatsvinden in het hoofdkwartier van LMT. Tegelijktijdig vindt het drukbezochte regionale start up tech evenement TechChill plaats, en de winnaars zullen de prijzen op het TechChill-podium in ontvangst nemen.

Als organisator is de ambassade op zoek naar bedrijven die geïnteresseerd zijn in sponsoring en participatie. Het sponsoren van dit evenement biedt uw bedrijf de uitgelezen kans om met experts uit beide landen te werken aan innovatieve en vooruitstrevende oplossingen op het gebied van Smart Mobility en Sustainable Logistics. Als sponsor kunt u bovendien eigen challenge aandragen gerelateerd aan de hoofd thema’s. De ambassade verwelkomt Nederlandse deelnemers uit zowel het bedrijfsleven, start-ups, de academische wereld en de publieke sector. Deelname aan het evenement is gratis voor Nederlandse deelnemers (u ontvangt een 100% kortingscode).

Voor meer informatie kunt u terecht bij Indra Freiberga, de Senior Economic Officer. @: indra.freiberga@minbuza.nl
T: 00371 29434242

Informatie: https://www.facebook.com/events/309420533243833
Aanmelden via: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/garage48-future-of-mobility-tickets-53135503722

Life in the city relies on the smooth operation of urban freight transport. But, we know there are a lot of issues associated with the activity, leading to often very unsustainable outcomes. If you're interested in sustainable transport, don't neglect looking at urban freight!

We have a free course on Sustainable Urban Freight Transport starting next week 4th December 2018. It is a collaboration between top universities around the world, and led by TU Delft. It provides you with a clear introduction to the world of city logistics. Hopefully, it will spark some innovation in thinking about integrating older practices with smart city initiatives and startups.

If you're interested, enroll at https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-urban-freight-transport-a-global-perspective.

Share this with your friends and colleagues. Enroll together and it will be more fun!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Met smart mobility oplossingen maken we mobiliteit binnen de Metropoolregio Amsterdam slimmer, duurzaam en toekomstbestendig. Maar hoe ziet de regio er over twintig of dertig jaar uit? Tijdens de tweejaarlijkse kennisbijeenkomst Smart Mobility in de MRA op 1 november jl. kwamen alle betrokken partners en marktpartijen bij elkaar voor de laatste update over lopende projecten.

Innovatieve last mile
Op station Zaandam stonden elektrische steps en scooters, deelauto’s en deelfietsen opgesteld. Deelnemers van het congres konden deze unieke services gebruiken voor de last mile van station naar evenementenlocatie Taets. Dé ideale manier om kennis te maken met elektrische steps van Enino, groene scooters van Felyx, deelauto’s van Stap Inn, innovatief OV van Via Van en deelfietsen van FlickBike. Na een woord van wethouder Gerard Slegers werd tijdens de opening van het congres de diensten van FlickBike ook in de gemeente Zaanstad gelanceerd.

Projectenoverzicht
Naast kennisdelen en ontmoeten stond ook de Smart Mobility projectenkaart centraal met daarop alle lopende projecten in de MRA. Dit is de eerste keer dat er een overall overzicht gepresenteerd is met daarop alle actuele projecten. Het overzicht is tijdens de dag verder aangevuld met projecten die er nog niet op stonden. Het resultaat zie je hier. Wil je op de hoogte blijven van het projectenoverzicht? Stuur dan een mail naar smartmobility[@]vervoerregio.nl.

Kennis delen in workshops
De kennisbijeenkomst stond deze keer in het teken van de toekomstbestendigheid rondom smart mobility. Na twee inspirerende, soms uitdagende key-notes van trendwatcher Richard van Hooijdonk en directeur Thijs Emondts van Uber werd er binnen verschillende workshops en speeddates gesproken over projecten en initiatieven in de regio. Zo namen Derk Wantia (MOJO Concerts) en Arwind Gajadien (LiveCrowd) de aanwezigen mee in de afwegingen voor een soepel verkeer rondom festivals en zocht Bart van Arem (TU Delft) naar input voor een wetenschappelijk vervolgonderzoek naar zelfrijdend vervoer in de MRA.

Speeddaten: alles wat je weten wilde over...
Uniek aan het evenement was de mogelijkheid om te speeddaten. Onder het motto ‘alles wat je altijd wilde weten over…’ konden deelnemers in korte tijd alles te weten komen over onder andere Talking Traffic of de slimme energieopslag in de Johan Cruijff ArenA. Een laagdrempelige manier om te discussieren, netwerken en geinspireerd de deur uit te lopen.

Op de hoogte blijven
De presentaties van de workshops en foto’s van de dag vind je op www.smartmobilitycongres.nl.

Wil je op de hoogte blijven van Smart Mobility in de MRA? Neem dan contact op via smartmobility[@]vervoerregio.nl.

Bike-Sharing system or bicycle-sharing system has been around since 1965 when a group called Provo introduced it in the bicycle-loving Amsterdam. But the idea of bike-sharing created a buzz only after the entry of smart city concept. It began to be recognised as an effective tool to reduce air pollution, traffic congestion, travel costs, and fossil fuel-dependency while improving public health. Besides, making cities look much more vibrant, cool and cosmopolitan.

However, launching a bike-sharing system in cities and over time making it an appealing mode of transportation is no easy feat. It requires a significant private and public investment and alterations to the built environment while understanding the needs of citizens. Many bike-sharing programs have been initiated amidst much hype yet their popularity has soon declined. They have ended up being used mainly on weekends and for recreation purpose.

There are a number of factors that lead to the failure of a bike-sharing system. But according to reports, the most impactful factors that discourage people from opting for it are dockless systems or systems that do not have adequate docks in a city. Dockless systems increase the risk of theft and vandalism while insufficient docking points make it difficult for riders to park the bike at a given dock and hence reducing the proper redistribution of bikes. If this single issue is resolved, bike-sharing programs can easily meet success and become an irresistible transport option in smart cities.

Small-scale autonomous boat prototypes have been tested in Amsterdam to evaluate their potential to relieve road congestion by ferrying commuters and collecting household waste along the city’s extensive canal network.

Click on the link to continue reading: https://cities-today.com/amsterdam-tests-autonomous-boats/

Find out more about the initiator, and partner of Amsterdam Smart City, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions here: https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/network/ams-institute

A Dutch delegation is ready to meet you at the Smart City Expo in Barcelona this November. One of the Dutch participants is the project REPAiR, a collaboration project between six cities and the European Commission. AMS Institute and Metabolic are involved in the Amsterdam part of the project.

REPAiR develops a tool to get more insights in waste flows in peri-urban areas.
Would you like to learn from them? Stop by at the Dutch Pavilion!

>>REPAiR will give a demo and presentation on Tuesday morning the 13th of November, between 10.30 and 12.

Smart City Expo World Congress Barcelona, 12-15 November 2018
Gran Via, hall 2, Street D, Stand 479
#SCEWC18

Want to watch more video's?
Click on the tag Smart City Expo 2018 below, or on this link: https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/posts?tags=smart-city-expo-2018

Jonathan Andrews reports from Amsterdam on how the city government has developed an eco-system for start-up launches with the intention of positioning the city as both accelerator and customer.

After having posted two small essays about mobility, I felt the necessity to go back to the basics of urban development and the liveability of our environment (which happens to be my field of study, once). Whatever mobility solution we are going to create, cost, comfort, ease of use and sustainability will be the ultimate yardsticks.

-- English below --

Op 18 oktober opent de inschrijving voor GO!-NH Duurzame Mobiliteit, geïnitieerd door Provincie Noord-Holland. Deze accelerator start in het voorjaar van 2019. Ben je geïnteresseerd of ken je ondernemers die versneld willen groeien? Kom dan naar de introductiebijeenkomst op 18 oktober as in het Provinciehuis in Haarlem of 28 november in CIRCL op de Zuidas in Amsterdam!

October 18th the admission for GO!-NH Sustainable Mobility, initiated by the Province of Noord-Holland, will open. This accelerator will start in the spring of 2019. Interested or do you know entrepreneurs who want to accelerate their growth? Join the introduction event at the October 18th at the Provincie in Haarlem or at November 28th at CIRCL, Zuidas Amsterdam!

In the Morgenstadt Smart City Solution competition ViNotion pitched their UrbanDynamics solution; our answer to increasing urbanization, complex traffic situations and multi-modal means of transportation. Increase the accessibility of a city by optimizing the traffic throughput of pedestrians, cyclist and vehicles and thus creating safer traffic situations based on automated image analyses with Artificial Intelligence.

By using a camera as a sensor we are able to realize high accuracy and reliability figures. Giving you specific dynamical insights into traffic data such as:
- speed,
- direction,
- flow,
- trajectories,
- position.
- density
- classification

Triggers like:
- stopped vehicle detection
- congestion
- fallen cargo
- near collision detection

Benefits:
- works in crowded spaces
- a single sensor for multimodal traffic participants such as pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles
- works under different weather circumstances
- can monitor specific geo spaces
- data is easy to compare
- open API

We appreciate the acknowledgment and look forward to onboarding the Morgenstadt Network to provide our solution(s) to the European cities in this innovative Network.

Get in contact for additional information or a plan an appointment:
Azem Kariman
00316-29784291
azem.kariman@vinotion.nl

Automation, robots, and artificial intelligence – there is an increasing buzz around the deployment of these marvellous inventions when we have already started envisioning a future that will witness a new dawn of human-machine relationship.

On one side where people predict robots will conquer human jobs, on the greener side some anticipate the rise of high-skilled jobs for people. As a matter of fact, both the predictions seem to be coming true. Although robots are taking over the traditional human jobs, they are providing more advanced jobs for humans – securing safer jobs for us over a lifetime.

The initiatives discussed further are a concrete evidence to the interestingly contradictory anticipations. Different smart cities around the world are collaborating with the automation industry to launch autonomous vehicles for various purposes. They are paving the way to a more efficient, secure and convenient urban landscape.

Within less then one year shared electric scooters (I would say electric steps) are gaining ground very fast in already 65 cities in the USA. They might become a dream solution for the first and last miles, much better than the growing deployment of Ubers at these short distances. In my newest blogpost I deal with these and other micro-mobility solutions for the future.
You will find the Dutch version of this post here: https://wp.me/p32hqY-1GS

Autonomous cars can change our cities into lovable places or into the worst gridlock ever. Urban policy will make the difference. In my newest blogpost I propose guidelines to align mobility with policy focused on on liveability and sustainability.
Find a Dutch version of this short essay here: https://wp.me/p32hqY-1Gv

Today I test drove the Sono Sion, a solar charged EV that comes in “any colour so long as it is black”. Henry Ford implemented this single colour policy for his Model T in 1914, in order to streamline the production process, reduce costs and simply because of the durability of the paint. The similarities between the at the time startup Ford Motor Company and modern time start up Sono Motors go however far beyond beyond colour options.

Henry Ford, an engineer by trade, believed in a strong product market fit. This meant the model T was conceived to be a single, non-configurable product that would satisfy the vast majority of the market. This did not mean the T-Ford was only available in one model, in its production run of almost 20 years (1908-1927) numerous body styles were made that included sedans, coupes, roadsters, pick-ups and delivery vans adding up to a grand production total of 16,5 million model T's. All models were being built with the same technical components on the same platform strategy, allowing for one model for each specific market. Each model however, came in one configuration only.

The Sono Sion comes only in black, not because the owner of the company decided so but because the majority of the online community of Sono Motor followers decided so. When given the choice between black and white for the first production run, the majority of voters elected black. The online community was also asked to choose between two proposals for the front headlight design. This clearly illustrates Sono Motors' strategy to pay very close attention to the best product market fit by actively involving the market in the decision making.

Another example of how Sono Motors is engaging with the market at an early stage is of course the fact that prospects are already invited to test drive one of the two (!) prototypes. Something that is unheard of in the car industry where new cars are developed in secret and car manufacturers camouflage their test vehicles and do everything to hide their precious prototypes from prying eyes.

So how did the actual test drive go? Upon entering the car the first thing that caught my eye was the beautiful transparent polycarbonate roof with solar cells laminated onto the top surface. The sunlight scatters between the cells creating a sparkling mosaic of light and dark. According to Sonos Motors it is unfortunately not sure this feature can be turned over to the final production version because of safety reasons, precisely because of the way the light is being scattered in the car's interior which can be distracting. I guess a tinted roof might be a good way to reduce this effect, because seeing the solar cells on the roof is a very nice design feature and a distinct reminder that you are driving something special. Another reminder is of course the moss in the dashboard that acts like a natural air filter to improve the interior air quality. Other than this I found the car drives like any other electric vehicle on the market today which, keeping in mind that this is still a prototype and development started only 2 years ago, is a big compliment.

It is very clear that the Sion has been made with practicality and affordabilty in mind. That is why it has a (to modern EV standards limited) range of 250 km on a single charge, which should be more than enough to satisfy every day's practical needs. It is compatible with a wide range of charging solutions (household socket, charging station, fast charging) thanks to a wide range of charging connectors and even has a power output (bi-directional charging), which means it can be used as a mobile energy station to charge other electric cars or even a household. The solar panels that are integrated into the bodywork passively charge the car when it is not plugged into an external energy source, while driving for instance. All though solar charging does extend the range, it should be considered as an extra add on and the Sion is primarily conceived to be an affordable, practical electric plug-in vehicle and not a solar car. Even more so, it should foremost be considered a practical family car that seats five persons and has a spacious luggage compartment.

Therefore there is also no budget spilled on making it self driving, instead it comes with built in car sharing (and billing) technology that allows it to be accessed remotely to be driven by other people if the owner is not using it. Payment and reservation are made via the Sono app, which also enables people to hitch a ride as it goes about. Power sharing, car sharing and ride sharing are all part of the Sion's mobility concept that aims to maximize its capacity by making it available to other users. This makes it not only very efficient but also a truly social car.

What I like most about the Sion however is that it's not endlessly configurable, but rather purpose built. In a time where “personalization” of mass products leads to extensive development and marketing costs and thus a higher consumer price, it's a relief to see a mass product that is not trying to please single individuals in the market but rather the market itself. Because after all, what the market wants is a good product at an affordable price. As Henry Ford put it in his memorial My life and work:

“I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.”

Just like the model T was conceived to convert the automobile from an expensive curiosity into an affordable means of personal mass transportation, the Sion aims to make electric mobility more affordable to the general public using the same single product strategy. Today electric cars still have a considerable higher price tag than their fossil fueled competition, but the Sion might just be the car to mass electric mobilize the general public. With a suggested retail price of € 16.000,- excluding tax and a monthly subscription for the battery rent (prices to be announced) or single purchase of the battery pack (€ 4.000,-) Sonos Motors has already received 7329 pre-orders. Not bad for a car with an option list that is limited to a tow bar. I do wish however the mosaic roof (in modern marketing terms) will become available as a second option!

Wilt u zakendoen in Mexico en bent u actief op het gebied van Smart Mobility, Intelligent Traffic Systems, elektrisch vervoer & laadinfrastructuur/laadpalen, verkeersmanagement en -veiligheid, parkeren, data transmission, sensorindustrie of luchtmetingen? Ga dan van 11 tot en met 16 november mee met de handelsmissie naar Mexico. De missie staat onder leiding van Pieter Litjens, oud-wethouder Verkeer en Vervoer gemeente Amsterdam en oud-burgemeester Aalsmeer.

Registratie sluit maandag 8 oktober! Meer info: www.rvo.nl/missiemexico.

So now, as indicated by the massive commitments among automakers into AEVs, we will see the death of the personal car. Since we ignored efficient mass transport like a convenient railway system, and embraced sprawl to accommodate our beloved stinkpots, if we live between cities we may have no affordable ways to access them conveniently.

There are mass-transit urban systems which require a car (and parking) to access their sometimes isolated pickup points, and if you're more than 10 miles out, even that may not be plausible. From 100 miles away only a snail-paced, antiquated bus system may be available and ride-hailing service gets too expensive to be palatable.

As enlightened Amsterdamers, we need your advice in facing the future. It's too late to build a Euro-style rail system. In the long term, if we go without cars how can we move between cities and then have personal mobility inside them? Would be interesting to see how you are addressing that problem, assuming it even exists for you.

Air-taxis like Lilium.com? What about urban mobility? Car-sharing like Mavendrive.com? Scootriders in towns are fast but require serious skill.

We may have a different problem, but if you're interested would enjoy your thoughts.

Recently, Ceresus published the 2018 Smart City Development Index Report, which uses the need-based smart city development framework with data science to evaluate 12 selected smart cities worldwide. The result shows that Amsterdam and Boston were ranked at the top.

Ceresus is a data-driven marketing consultancy and we have been inventing evaluation frameworks for companies to drive business growth and for industries to make the positive change.

If you are interested in our 2018 Smart City Development Index, please write me an email for more details (cindy.ho@ceresus.co) and check out the Index here:
>>>> https://www.ceresus.co/view.php