The Future of Urban Mobility | Oren Shoval | TEDxJaffa

Tired of sitting in traffic? Wish the public transit system in your city could be a viable way to move around?
Oren presents the future of public transportation: on-demand shuttle networks. A fleet of dynamically routed vans adapts to the real-time demand and traffic conditions, and provides users with efficient and convenient mobility.
Data is the infrastructure of the dynamic shuttle network which can be rapidly and inexpensively deployed in cities across the globe.
Oren shares the story behind Via: the world's first dynamic shuttle network.

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Oren Shoval is the co-founder and CTO of Via, which is re-engineering public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network.

Via is currently operating its platform in New York, Chicago, and Washington DC, and is also licensing its on-demand transit technology to transportation operators globally.

[MiraImankulova]

Absolutely great idea and this would make easier traffic

[JumpCutProYT]

8:18 - Ban cars to move more freely... makes sense. What if I told you the problem isn't vehicles and there's a ton of evidence to support that? Most studies agree the problem is three things - 1: the way we designed our cities, 2: human error while driving, 3: the design of vehicles.


As the Great Jedi Master Taylor Williams once said "Infrastructure problems are design problems. Anybody that disagrees is most likely trying to make money off of you."
And not to get too preachy, but why is it that almost every attempt at solving societies problems begin with forfeiting privacy, independence and autonomy? collectivism.

[LLubdeRr]

He msut clearly talk about USA because there are many european countries that invest a lot in public transportation like busses and trains. But believe me we wont see "his" future in the next 30 years because as long as there is oil on the planet there will be people that want to drive fancy cars or want to be independet from the driving schedule of the puplic transportation. We are far awy from a future PT that is mentiond in this video.

[vsevks]

This way of transportation is super inefficient. It still requires too much place, as much as a personal car. So it is just a bug on a city road, that gain from city‘s road system

[ari]

Oren and Daniel, what a pair
Exploit new immigrants by "helping" them get a Mercedez minivan for a lease of ONLY $ 450 per week, paying less and less as new drivers join the 80 K plus drivers pool in NYC, they pay hourly rates as low as $ 17 for SUV drivers and as low as $ 12 per hour fot sedan drivers, and even that they pay hourly, the claim is they only take 10 % commision, real exploiters of people in need of an income.
Hopefully the drivers will wake up.

[XXX-ehct]

why do you buy a car? one of the biggest reason is because the car provide you a private space on the go. There are so many things you can do with a private car.

[EngMadison]

Yawn. Another tech bro reinventing the wheel and missing the whole point of fixed route service.

[theomer]

Maybe big cities will ban the private cars but i think solution is not shuttle(it is useful sometimes but not for everytime.). I think we should have an AI to understand which time and location will need more transportation then increase the number of buses at least 1.5X then traffic will be less problem for us. What do you think?

[aladdinbenokba]

I don’t think it’s the answer to the traffic jams in cities. There is no a magic formal for tackling transportation problems. However, mix of majors can do so . Ban cars isn’t a solution. By the way I don’t drive since 10 years ago.

[Nirkan]

How will these companies build infrastructure for car sharing?