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Wisk unveils autonomous four-seat eVTOL air taxi; Generation 6

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Wisk Aero, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company, revealed the first self-flying, all-electric, four-passenger vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi. Wisk’s 6 th Generation aircraft leverages key learnings and insights from its previous five generations of eVTOL aircraft to deliver a new level of performance.

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Ricardo to use transport location data to improve air quality in global cities

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Ricardo is recruiting taxi drivers in Brighton to trial the app and will use its connected fleet management system—a digital tool which monitors the performance of a fleet of vehicles—to analyze the impact of the app on air quality.

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RSA report Inside the Mind of a Cabbie explores how to influence more fuel-efficient driving behavior

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like climate change require us to face up to complexity, and require fresh human reflection, responsibility and insight. weight, personal comfort and journey planning. RSA focused on: Cabbies’ personal views and outlooks: what do they think and care about? Are taxi drivers operating a private business, performing a public.

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Toyota Research Institute joins study of workforce impact from automated vehicles with $75K contribution

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The research will provide several points of insight, including: Identification of the jobs expected to be affected; Quantification of the impact on specific job categories; Identification of the skills that will be needed for the future; and. TRI joins other companies in supporting this research.

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Study of In-use Vehicle Activity and Emissions in Tianjin, China Yields Fleet and Emissions Profiles, Policy Implications

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Light-duty vehicles together contributed to 82% of all distance traveled (passenger cars, 64%; taxis, 18 %), buses and trucks contributed to 11% and 8% of total distance traveled respectively. 13% of passenger cars and 35% of taxis were still using carburetors. million miles) per day. thousand tons of CO 2 on a typical spring day.

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ABI Research forecasts 400M people to rely on robotic car sharing by 2030

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The new car sharing economy happens in three phases: street rental service, ride sharing taxi service, and robotic service. The principal benefits extend beyond the collaboration aspect, though, and include the ability to tap into and monetize personally owned assets and real-time matching of supply and demand. —Dominique Bonte.

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Toyota Mobility Foundation and partners to launch Rama4 project to ease traffic congestion in Bangkok

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The critical component of this project is the effective usage of huge and diverse sets of data from several sources such as GPS data from Grab Taxi and Public Buses, CCTV footage and multiple sensors. All the partners believe that this trial project will be “a big step towards Mobility for All.”.

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