Cars and Cities on Speaking Terms

Point B co-host Michael Kara is joined by the 1st Vice Chair of the City of Gothenburg Transport Board, Hans Arby to discuss the importance of getting connected cars on speaking terms with cities and the role of data in the impending technological transportation transformation.
Key Highlights
1:55 What does an intelligent city look like?
3:05 Ideating the city of the future and the role of vehicle data
4:03 Using data from e-scooters as a base for expanding data use
5:30 The next level of intelligent management of data
7:07 Clean air zone and congestion charges explained
8:37 How urban mobility business models are changing
10:26 Logistical and technical challenges of car sharing
12:23 Working together to create the cities of the future
Hans Arby is a senior researcher at RISE (Research Institute of Sweden) and adviser for public and private mobility actors, focusing on business model and ecosystem innovation and governance. He is 1st Vice Chair of the City of Gothenburg Transport Board. He founded UbiGo which launched one of the first commercial, subscription-based MaaS (Mobility as a Service) operations in Stockholm. He has close to 20 years of experience within sustainable transport, ITS and has been providing strategic support to cities in developing transport strategies and long-term planning and marketing of public transport. He has an MSc in electrical engineering from Chalmers university and has been working with business development, marketing and sales in different high-tech industries before entering the mobility industry.