A group of economists tasked by the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications to investigate the efficacy of financial instruments in the reduction of emissions strongly counsels against outright bans of single technologies—internal combustion engines…

On Monday, September 30th, and Tuesday, October 1st, 2019, the World Alliance for Low Carbon Cities (WALCC), together with its partner Synocus, invited an engaged group of experts from cities, research, corporations, and SMEs to…

A startup named Lacuna has picked up where the developers of the mobility data specification system developed by Los Angeles to manage the influx of light mobility services recently landed on in its streets. Lacuna…

Cities as game changers Today cities must deal with a growing amount of challenges, climate change being a major one. City managers must provide a better place to live for its residents here and now,…

IKEA, the Swedish furniture company, will start running an emission-free home delivery trial in Tampere, Finland, starting early October. Similar emission-free home delivery testing is already running in cities like Shanghai, China and London, UK,…

In a move in line with recent trends towards reducing short-distance air travel and the increasing pressure on airlines to reduce emissions from their operations, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have announced the replacement of one…

HSL, Helsinki Region Transport, announced the launch of a new pilot service in Espoo, part of the tri-city capital region, which sees the region continuing in the pioneering footsteps it took in 2012 with the…

Joining American rivals Lyft and Uber, China’s ride-hailing leader Didi is set to start its first pilots of autonomous taxis. Didi has been awarded a permit for testing autonomous vehicles in street-operation by the city…