Join the Mobility Revolution with These Five Apps. One Transportation App To Rule Them All. It’s one thing to create a bike or car sharing system, but how do you get people to actually use them?
One answer, according to Roman Gebhard, is to reward them. Gebhard, head of the Lunar Europe design agency, in Munich, has helped develop the “Mo System”--the world’s first incentivization scheme for green transport. Rather than city folk paying separately for car, bike, and public transit, with the Mo System they pay a single fee, and then get rewards, called Mo Miles, when they take more sustainable options.
So, for example, users who cycle get miles they can use for subway or bus trips, or for car shares. “If the weather is good, you use your smartphone to locate the nearest bike spot. 3 Next-Gen Apps for the Stressed-Out Urbanite - Technology. Life in the city can get pretty stressful, and sometimes we're just too distracted to remember the little things — "long-term health," for instance, or "pedestrian safety" or "general well-being.
" Fortunately there are three new apps designed to do that for us. In the latest issue of Pervasive Computing, a magazine published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, computer scientists Andrew Campbell of Dartmouth and Tanzeem Choudhury of Cornell describe the programs, which they helped to develop. The apps aren't exclusively for city use, but they seem tailor made for that urbanite caught up in the modern "busy trap. " The first is called WalkSafe. 5 Great U.S. City Parking Apps - Technology.