In 2011 a partner of Arthur D. Little, Wilhelm Lerner, wrote a report on the Future of Urban Mobility – Towards networked, multimodal cities of 2050 to assess the maturity and performance of 66 cities worldwide and finds most not just falling well short of best practice but in a state of crisis.
He found that many cities’ mobility systems were standing on “a burning platform and if action is not taken in the very near future, they will play a major role in slowing the growth and development of their host nations”. It is subsequently suggested that European mobility was being held back.
Moving forward a decade, his colleague Joseph Salem, who’s also a partner at the firm, writes in the foreword of the company’s Autonomous Mobility Journal, Edition III for September 2021: “We live in unfortunate times where the transportation industry worldwide continues to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chains across the automotive industry have been disturbed… amid the challenges, one of the important lessons that we derive from the pandemic is this: innovation is now a must. COVID-19 has underscored the need for innovation in devising safer and faster mobility solutions and already the signs are encouraging. For example, progress is being made in the development of autonomous transport by air and sea to support the creation of an intermodal ecosystem.”
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