This month there has been a focus on the promotion of car-free cities with Car Free Day on September 22nd and European Mobility Week.

In the US, around 20% of low-income households don’t have a car and rely on public transit services to access employment and education opportunities as well as essential services. This figure compares to 6% of all households.

If the last few months have shown transit agencies anything, it is that the investment in a quality mobile mobility app is crucial to moving public transit forward post-pandemic. However, the app must meet the needs of both the agency and also the users it serves. The agency and users are intrinsically linked as without satisfied users, the agency’s investment in a mobile mobility platform will be wasted.

We are beginning to see the start of the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the environment. During the global lockdown pollution and emission levels fell sharply to the lowest recorded levels for decades.

With public transit badly hit by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, transit agencies are going to face a real challenge of getting riders back onto public transit. It is even more important for transit agencies to look at saving costs whilst increasing their service to customers. Mobile mobility platforms, such as the one Unwire offers, are key to taking this forward.

Los Angeles in the US is planning to build a hundred over the next few years and there are already a number of successful hubs in existence across the US and Europe with many more planned.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s (DART) GoPass ® app, powered by Unwire’s innovative mobility platform, has been awarded the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) 2019 Innovation Award. The award will be announced at APTA’s 2019 TRANSform Conference on Tuesday 15 October 2019.