Emerging technologies – friend or foe?

The view at this month’s IT-TRANS show was that app-based mobility will bring huge changes, but public transport will remain the backbone in cities
 
Left to right: Timothy Papandreou, Martin Röhrleef and Scott Cain is Chief Business Officer of the UK’s Future Cities Catapult
 
Emerging technologies like app-based mobility and autonomous vehicles look set to bring the most radical overhaul of passenger transport since the invention of the internal combustion engine. It