Still at the end of 2016 the Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to publish key factors for an Open Data Law. These key factors should be converted to a legal text and passed to the Bundestag (German parliament) in the coming year - an ambitioned goal as Open Knowledge Foundation Germany recently published in a blog. The law is supposed to promote the opening of the federal administration.
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So far we were used to the rule that up to the scheduled time it was still possible to jump into the train. From now on, the train will start rolling already, i.e. the doors have to be shut earlier. Something like this we see already in the short-distance transport of a German large city, it is allowed to depart already 30 seconds before scheduled departure time. We do not have to understand this, but it is the way it is. We simply need to know it.
…The German years of "Wirtschaftswunder" (economic miracle) since the success of the combustion motor are past. Brands and alternative technologies as well as restrictions from other countries enforce the mobility site Germany to review the strategy. But this seems not to take place consistently as economy journalist Gunnar Sohn has stated in his article "Schwarm-Mobilität statt Schmieröl-Weisheiten im Land der Autobauer" bei Netzpiloten.de ("swarm mobility instead of pieces of grease wisdom in the country of car makers").
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The so-called FMLM problem (First Mile - Last Mile) has been discussed recently in an article of the american TRANSPORTIS Blog.
…What we saw only in the railway system so far became reality for bus transport in autumn 2016 in Lyon: The autonomous bus trip without a driver. This has been reported by The Telegraph in its online edition of 3rd of September 2016.
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The headline of the article "How to change standing vehicles to become rolling vehicles" of the NZZ series "Chances of digitalization" already suggests that our vehicles are not optimally utilized. We neither drive our cars very often nor are all seats occupied most of the time. And eventually, since the appearance of UBER, the agency app for private car trips in the USA, we know that there are creative alternatives for intelligently networking mobility.
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The views of three visionaries on how to revolutionize the way we travel are discussed in an article of Marc Neller in "Die Welt".
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It seems as if Deutsche Bahn (German Railway) would strive for the alltime "app record". A new app is added to the existing apps: DB Bahnhof live (DB station live). This new station app aims to give passengers an overview about the actual situation at 5,400 stations in the country. DB Bahnhof live is available for iOS and Android free of charge.
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Intense competition among long-distance coach companies is expected to result in even more of them closing down. But even so, the remaining bus companies will continue to offer an increasing supply, in terms of routes, frequency and bus size.
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