Travel

• Emerging driverless autos will cut energy cost per mile 90 percent and total cost 40 percent.
• An autonomous taxi with dynamic ride-sharing could replace ten private vehicles.
• Many cars will become utility-driven products based on providing a great mobility experience.
• The world's mobility challenges will increasingly be met with silicon rather than asphalt.
• By 2020, more than 40 million cloud-enabled vehicles will ship yearly.
• Even in 2020, the overwhelming majority of cars worldwide will be powered by a combustion engine.
• The intra-urban mobility with railways and aeroplanes will enjoy significant growth.
• Hotels will boost in-room technology budgets in 2015 with mobility topping the must-do list for many.
• Attainments for public transport will increase by 50% and for individual mobility by 17%.
• There will be a demand for an intermodal traffic system in a limited amount of space with a seamless interchange between different modes of transport.

Planning

• Extremely precise digital maps will be used in combination with real-time vehicle data in order to increase road safety and to facilitate innovative new products and services.
• Anonymized biking data from both public and corporate repositories will improve overall bike planning and provide incentives to the private sector to support more biking.
• ICT research in manufacturing intelligence will assimilate the huge amount of data originating as a result of increased collaboration and connectivity and render meaningful information on-the-fly on mobile devices for managers and shop floor supervisors.
• Mobility and connectedness will be at the heart of the future business environment.
• Future mobility solutions will take the CO2 balance in the whole energy chain into consideration.
• Investment will shift from collaboration, infrastructure and mobility to big data and IIoT / automation over the next 3 to 5 years.

Intelligence

• Intelligent mobility could cut costs with more efficient infrastructure usage and better system management.
• Intelligent mobility opens up enormous potential for innovation and will enable several new functions for drivers.
• Online data could be used to model large-scale human mobility patterns.

Alliances

• Moving toward an era of mobility is going to take the combined and concerted efforts of private manufacturers, software engineers, regulators, government agencies and academic institutions.
• Transport Systems (ITS) will require vision and cooperation between policy makers, OEMs, technology suppliers and infrastructure providers.
• Public transport authorities and operators will need to open their minds and take a much
  more holistic view on public transport than they have done up to now.
• Mobility will see more of cooperation and alliances between companies on the far ends of the spectrum of technology ecosystem.
  

Policies

• Local and regional governments will come under increased pressure to provide good fiscal, legal and regulatory conditions.
• Standards for electrified mobility safety, data communication and billing will be developed.
• Public transportation will play an increasingly important role in reducing emissions and boosting economic growth by ensuring that all members of society are mobile.
• Electro mobility is expected to minimize the current dependence on oil.
• Integrated solutions to create an all-pervasive 'smartness' in the fields of transport and mobility, water management, building management and energy efficiency will play a critical role in shaping the government's vision.
  

Business

• CIOs need to continue to be proactive around changing security and mobility demands that the workforce will place on their infrastructure.
• Implementing the trans-European transport network could create up to 10 million jobs
  and increase Europe's GDP by 1.8% by 2030.
• Apple's wearable is a consumer product right now but in time the device likely will take a stronger position in the industrial mobile workplace as part of an overall enterprise mobility picture.
• Companies will need to pair 'pervasive mobility' with 'ubiquitous security'.
• As the technological boom evolves, businesses will need to watch out for pitfalls such as rising mobility, which will drive eventual platform and device consolidation
• Organizations that continue to take enterprise mobility for granted will be swept aside in the new environment.

Ownership

• Consumers could buy 'mobility services' rather than a vehicle. The 'mobility companies' could then own the batteries, battery charging systems and battery exchange infrastructure, and charge the customers for the services they use.
• The application of AVs to taxi and car-sharing business models will have far-reaching consequences for mobility players.
• Fleets of self-driving vehicles could replace all car, taxi and bus trips in a city.
• AVs could change the mobility behavior of consumers.
• Beyond technological innovations the transition to electric mobility will first and foremost require the readiness of customers to use and trust electric mobility.
  

Vehicle technologies

• Vehicle, batteries and engine technologies are expected to lead to improvements in
  transportation and mobility.
• Mass adoption of self-driving technology will not occur until sensor technology and integration software are more fully developed.
• Enterprise mobility apps and services will continue to grow.

Surprise

• An adversary could create physical obstacles to mobility and other robot capabilities.
• Shared network and data communications infrastructure brings an inherent risk of collateral damage if not properly protected.
  
  

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