MOVIN’ WITH THE TIMES

UNCHECKED population growth, new smartphone-and cloud-based technologies and growing concerns over climate change are altering the way we move around urbanised areas. According to the latest UN projections, within a decade, the planet will become home to 43 megacities of 10 million+ residents each. The speed of this shift will be unique to each major metropolitan area, of course, due to a variety of geographic and socioeconomic factors. But rest assured, by 2050, 2.5 billion people will have migrated to major cities the world over.

Cities such as Boston, Lyon and Montreal are at the cutting edge of new mobility … Bangalore, Lagos and Málaga, not so much. What techniques and technologies are these cities employing to deliver the sustainable mobility of the future?

Courtesy of Michelin, we’re at the annual Movin’On Summit in Montreal to find out, and gain insight into the integrated smart cities of the future.