Green Car Congress
JANUARY 3, 2017
A new modeling study by a team from MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and Cornell suggests that using ride-sharing from companies like Uber and Lyft theoretically could reduce the number of taxis on the road in New York City by 75% without significantly impacting travel time. —Daniela Rus.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 9, 2015
(GMS), a venture company providing mobility services, will partner on field testing to expand the use of electric tricycles (a three-wheel taxi) in the Republic of the Philippines. The trial, which took place in Metro Manila, the capital area of the Philippines, ran from September 2014 through January 2015.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
Travel and expense management company Certify’s Q2 analysis on business expense trends found that Uber, the popular ridesharing service, continues to grow with business travelers, comprising 55% of ground transportation receipts compared with taxi services at 43%. In Q1, Uber had 46% of receipts compared with taxis at 53%.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
SPLT uses an app to connect people who share the same route to their place of work or study. SPLT was founded in 2015. Ridesharing, in which digital services and apps are used to form carpools and to organize vehicle sharing and taxis, is a growth market in the connected mobility sector.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
Air Products has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with the Clean Energy Partnership in Berlin, and the plan aims to extend the existing infrastructure up to 50 fueling stations by 2015. The journey was part of the International Conference “Alternative Powertrain Systems” organized by the Sociedad de Técnicos de Automoción.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 1, 2016
AVs provide the opportunity to facilitate efficient urban and suburban vehicle sharing, autonomous bus or taxi services, logistics and long-distance truck platooning. Delphi’s technology solution is vehicle-agnostic and can be applied in passenger cars, buses, commercial vehicles, purpose-built mobility pods and electric vehicles.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 14, 2017
In the course of this project, experts from the Volkswagen Code Lab in San Francisco and the Volkswagen Data Lab in Munich and used data from approximately 10,000 taxis in Beijing. Data scientists and AI specialists from Volkswagen have successfully programmed an algorithm to optimize the travel time of all public taxis in the city.
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