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ew forms of mobility are changing the public transportation landscape; in turn, those new modes of mobility are enabled by technology innovation. In other words, technology is what caused today’s unprecedented mobility revolution.

The sights of many entrepreneurs and innovators are set on the tremendous opportunity presented by traditional industries. While technology innovation has dramatically changed our workplaces and personal lives, many traditional industries still use old technologies at their core, resulting in new opportunities for technology innovation.

When people think about the mobility revolution, they usually think about autonomous vehicles, transportation network companies providing on-demand taxi services, or micro-mobility options like scooters and electric bikes.

Mobility platform provider Optibus opened an office in New York City, as well as the appointment of Kevin Foreman as its GM, North America. In addition to opening a New York office, Optibus is also moving its San Francisco office to Mission Street. The new offices will be open Nov. 1.

Optibus has opened a new office in New York City and has appointed Kevin Foreman as its North America general manager.

Electric bus use is growing, with nearly half of municipal buses on the road globally expected to be electric by 2025 and the size of the U.S. electric bus market projected to reach $1.95 billion by 2024.

The Mobility Market Is More Competitive Than Ever. Here’s How to Get Riders to Choose the Bus. With public transit ridership falling in the vast majority of cities across the U.S. and multiple modes of mobility increasingly available, the transportation method that has been described as “transit’s unsexy workhorse” – the industrious yet unassuming bus – may seem hopelessly outmaneuvered.

Public transit use may be on the decline, but luckily, there’s hope for increasing ridership. Restructuring routing and optimizing scheduling stand to overcome the main barriers to public transportation use: a lack of frequency and reliability.

Planning and scheduling of electric fleets shouldn’t be an art form; more tools are coming online to help transit providers optimize their zero emission programs.

A new Automotive World report looks at next-generation mobility and transportation initiatives in Israel