Here’s an interesting idea from London - a way to help encourage electric car usage in the wider city and suburbs. A “framework” has been created by Transport for London with several local councils and the Greater London Authority called GULCS: the Go Ultra Low City Scheme. The partners will invest £3.7M to supply 1,100 charging points over the next two years. Siemens, a … [Read more...]
Ride-Share Cars Are Filling City Streets
Over the past few months there have been several reports released about the state of city traffic - mostly in the US. The underlying issue of the reports is that ride-sharing systems are clogging the streets and not reducing the traffic volume as they claim. Uber, Lyft and all the regional ride-share companies are known as Transportation Network Companies (or TNCs - got to … [Read more...]
Tomorrow’s Taxi Didn’t Get Past Today
There have been a handful of motorised vehicles that were specifically made to be a taxicab. The two most well known have been the London Cab and the Checker on the other side of the Atlantic. When the Checker Cab ended production, many taxi owners moved to cars such as the Ford Crown Victoria, however in 2011, the New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg announced the winner … [Read more...]
Ride Sharing Usage
I have been reading a lot about the efficacy of ride sharing - remember when Uber first started, they were all about sharing the ride to work or a particular destination. For example, this is what my mum used to do for school runs with other mums in the area, each week one mum would pick up other kids and take them to the same school. That was what Uber was originally intended … [Read more...]
German Court Rules That Diesel Can Be Banned in Cities
Earlier this year, a German court ruled that cities in that country could ban heavily polluting diesel powered cars from their urban areas. This was a blow to the Government who dislike bans and they were looking at other restrictions to ease pollutant levels. The whole issue around the VW emissions test work-around has had wide ranging repercussions. Governments reacted in … [Read more...]
