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The Use Of Ride Sharing During Emergencies

The Horizons Tracker

Transportation during emergencies is often heavily disrupted, but new research from Carnegie Mellon suggests that ride-sharing platforms held up considerably better than taxis during events like terrorist attacks or public transport shutdowns. In contrast, daily use of ride-sharing platforms remained relatively stable.

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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

Harvard Business Review

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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America’s Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler. On the roads, new technology is growing in importance. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough.

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How Arizona Is Leading the Autonomous Vehicle Revolution - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ARIZONA COMMERCE AUTHORITY

Harvard Business Review

Self-driving vehicles, once a science fiction technology, are rapidly becoming a reality that promises to transform our lives – making it safer and more efficient to move people and goods, while reinventing our thinking about transportation. This will provide real time information about driving obstacles to improve driver safety.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015

Harvard Business Review

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

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America’s Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. Technology entrepreneurs should be at the table with established companies, elected officials, financiers, and consumers. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue. Citizen voices and votes can encourage action.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.