Mobile Technologies: Revolutionizing How We Travel?

Published: Dec. 11, 2013, 9:11 p.m.

Information has the potential to revolutionize your travel experience. The building blocks of a connected infrastructure are already being put in place with services like Parker to help people find parking spaces, bikesharing apps like Spotcycle, Uber-like taxi companies, and many local transit apps. The potential is huge, but so are the challenges. There are issues around the sharing of information; how will transit data be used, and should it be sold? Will our smartphones dictate how we get around in the future, and what will cities and governments have to do to make that happen? This session will discuss some of the issues around technological innovation, regulation, and multi-modal transportation. Speakers: David Alpert, Zia Yusuf, and Jon Stewart