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Xoom towns - effects on life & travel
The pandemic has exposed the worst kept secret in the world - we don’t need big fancy offices. They don’t benefit the company, the employees or investors. They are the dinosaurs of a past age - a time of corporate excess and ego. There have been several examples of companies coming to the realizatio
Read More >Fighting Coronavirus in Transport: Promising Country Experiences
The strategies by which governments around the world are trying to combat the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus differ significantly. The risk of transmission of the virus by its hidden carriers (people who have no symptoms of the disease) is also assessed differently. However, throughout the COV
Read More >Now is the Time to Go Green with Local Travel
Governments around the world are pouring millions of relief dollars into programs to stimulate consumer spending and change behavior. The government leading the way in subsidies for electric vehicles in 2020 is South Korea. Offering as much as $18.2mn won ($15,613 USD) off the price of vehi
Read More >Singapore: How to Travel Cheaper as Costs Climb
In the 11 weeks that have passed since Singapore started to ease its lockdown measures, prices for certain services have been growing constantly. Private local transportation is one of them. As more and more people are moving around the city, rideshare and taxi providers are taking notice (and advan
Read More >The Great Travel Shift
Leisure travel has taken the crown. No longer is business travel the talk of the town. Airport lounges beware. There’s a lot of data coming out about how personal travel is rebounding much faster than business travel. This is a really interesting development for a few reasons, and has huge impacts o
Read More >A New Way Forward: The Rental Model
How does the rental business model for e-scooters and e-bikes fare mid-pandemic? We’ve been starting to wonder about this potential solution to the transportation challenges that the coronavirus outbreak has brought upon us. With most offers launched a year or two ago (oh, we were so naive back then
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