The End of Travel, Part 2: Tech Innovations Behind the Rise of Smart Mobility
Photo Caption: The mobility era is the era of digital intermediation offered through digital platforms.
Skift Take
The tech, data and platform changes enabling the daily travel and transport innovations we're all benefiting from now. The mobility era is the era of digital intermediation offered through digital platforms.
Editor's Note: Last month Skift started a new three-part series on the digital and mobile transformation of transportation, the changing face of cities, and how they both have the potential to upend everything we know about travel.
The first article in this series introduced the mobility era and how new mobility providers and aggregators created new transportation products and services in cities all over the world.
The second part, along with the big 170+ slides presentation by the author, is below and well worth a deep read. You will find all articles in the coming weeks here.
This "revolution" only started a couple of years ago, with the creation of public transportation standards and the "open data" movement. Then advances in technology and computing power were leveraged more broadly to offer services such as real-time multi-mode (car, taxi, bus, train etc) mobility journey planner.
The Need for Open and Live Public Transit Data
With the advent of mobile computing
