The world of mobility stands at a pivotal crossroads, requiring urgent change to reduce its harmful impact on our environment and society while preserving its many benefits. By harnessing the potential of ubiquitous connectivity, artificial intelligence, business model innovation, and vehicle electrification, we can envision a future where mobility is increasingly contextual, multimodal, and fleet-driven. In this future, mobility harmonizes with its urban environment and succeeds in moving more people and goods with fewer vehicles.

This future is supported by a complex ecosystem of traditional enablers, such as vehicle service networks, insurers, and financiers, alongside emerging orchestrators like fleet and transport management solutions, mobility services aggregators, and intelligent traffic systems. Unfortunately, while most of this ecosystem’s building blocks already exist today, the future of mobility remains distant because each player operates in isolation, optimizing within but not beyond their often narrow scopes.

At its core, however, mobility is a complex optimization challenge with many variables and constraints that requires open data sharing across the ecosystem to solve for the optimum. To many companies, data sharing still feels like giving up on some often undefined and future monetization opportunities. However, imagine what we stand to gain, both individually and collectively, if all available data could be used to unlock new value pools that offer radically new products, services, and experiences to people, shippers, and fleets.