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Future Mobility Showcases United States-Sweden Collaborations at International Mobility Data Summit 2024

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Future Mobility just participated in the International Mobility Data Summit 2024 in Montreal, bringing mobility innovators from all over the world together. The summit highlighted the critical role that mobility data and standardization play in shaping the future of sustainable transportation.

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Our Program Director, Hans Pohl, shared the stage with experts like Madeline Zhu from the U.S. Department of Transportation in a panel titled "How Governments Encourage Collaboration to Leverage Learning Across Communities and Countries." The conversation focused on how collaboration is driving innovations in mobility solutions across borders.

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"The International Mobility Data Summit was a great opportunity to showcase how collaboration between nations is essential to address the global mobility challenges we face today. The discussions highlighted how Future Mobility and its innovation projects bring together innovators from both Sweden and the United States to create solutions that make transportation more sustainable and accessible for all."

Hans Pohl, Program Director, Future Mobility 

In another session Steven Jones from the Alabama Transportation Institute, shared insights into the Future Mobility-funded project Transit-Oriented Development and Shared Autonomous Vehicles, in which his team in collaboration with Royal Institute of Technology aim to decarbonize transportation and build innovative mobility hubs in both nations.

A standout moment came when Albert Benedict from SUMC presented another Future Mobility-funded innovation project, Women-Centered Mobility Hub project, focusing on inclusive mobility solutions that respond to the unique needs of women and caregivers.

Also present at the summit was Subhro Guhathakurta, from Georgia Institute of Technology. He noted that he was at first surprised to get a project mentor from the Future Mobility Advisory Board and then very happy about it. Among others, it made him discover this summit. His team collaborates with Lund University in a project funded by Future Mobility named Just Future.

Future Mobility is an innovation platform aimed at connecting Swedish and American actors to collaborate on sustainable mobility. The program was launched in 2022 and is run by Lindholmen Science Park and Vinnova. We fund strategic projects where at least one American and one Swedish organization collaborate to advance sustainable mobility.

Want to learn more about how you can connect with either the United States or the Swedish innovation system and how we can help? Let’s connect!

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Start an innovation collaboration with funding from Future Mobility

Future Mobility aims to contribute to new or strengthened innovation collaborations between Sweden and the United States within sustainable mobility. We finance strategic projects that boost research...
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Hans Pohl

Future Mobility
Program Director
Lindholmen Science Park, Gothenburg Sweden

Transit Oriented Development (TOD), mobility hubs and Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs)

The project aims to decarbonize transport and decrease oil dependence by offering innovative future mobility solutions that work with public transport and enrich the service with first/last mile...
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A Design Framework for Women-Centered Mobility Hub

The project will develop a Design Framework for Women-Centered Mobility Hubs.
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JustFuture

This project aims to explore the role of on-demand transit in different contexts and assess its future possibilities for public mobility with a special focus on issues of transport equity and equality...
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Innovation projects

Below you can find active and finalized projects with co-funding from Future Mobility.