5 Top Mobility Videos

Trucks in single-file
By 2025, 70 percent of all freight transport will travel along public roads and place enormous pressure on the European highway infrastructure and the environment. This logistical challenge is being tackled with ‪‎truck platooning. In truck platooning, trucks slipstream very close behind each other and communicate via wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communication. It optimizes road activity, takes up less space, minimizes traffic jams, leads to less fuel consumption and fewer CO2-emissions:

“Electric cars will be the new normal.”
BMW Vice President Hildegard Wortmann kicks off the DLD Summer Conference panel on the future of mobility and is joined by Alejandro Agag, CEO at Formula-E (Formula 1 racing with electric cars). When we look at the bigger picture of the automotive industry, the changes in the next 10 years will be bigger than the changes in the last 30 years. There will be a shift from automotive to automobility. Wortmann and Agag will discuss subjects such as autonomous driving, e-mobility, seamless connectivity and new business models that go with it.

A huge bus sliding smoothly through traffic
This Transit Explore Bus is China’s answer to clogged up streets and traffic jams. According to the Guardian this ‘elevated bus is capable of gliding over the nightmarish mega-jams for which urban China has become notorious.’ A prototype will be deployed in the coastal city of Qinhuangdao later this summer.

Taking the tubes
In 2013, SpaceX and Elon Musk announced their concept for a high-speed ground transport system called Hyperloop. It is supposed to cut the commute between San Francisco and Los Angeles down to 30 minutes. A design competition for the Hyperloop pods is well underway, and the pods will be tested in the Summer of 2016.