VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

Please do for us, yourself, or our city a favour and vote for URBAN MOBILITY BERLIN. We took part in the „Urban Mobility Challenge: Berlin 2030“ competition. just takes a few seconds: klick at the link → login to vote → vote: „excellent“ → finished *THANKS* and dont’t forget „verify e-mail address“. Make the city…

A Cybernetic Tool

  After developing a general understanding of future mobility, the next step is the creation of the research database about the different vehicles. So every transportation device will be categorized, rated and visualized in a comparable way. This comprehensive list will be called “The Toolbox”. Because here we have an overlooking catalogue of the different…

Piano Bike Magic

On my way home from work I got mesmerized. When I just left Tiergarten towards Brandenburger Tor I saw this amazing Pianoplayer. His name is Davide Martello and his aim is it to play his music in every capital of the world. In this case it caught my special attention since he brought his grand piano along…

UrbanMobilityBerlin Keynote at InnoTrans 2014

For the anual InnoTrans Exhibition 2014 our Partner Leitner Ropeways could manage to arrange a Spot at the Speakes Corner for us.: Friday Morning 26/09 10:00 Uhr – Speakers Corner Halle 14.2 Here we will talk about our latest insights in the future mobility sector and present our the first drafts of our methodology on…

Personal Emotional Mobility

Check out Mikael Colville-Andersen’s amazing speach about Urban Cycling to understand the meaning of the headline: Personal Emotional Mobility. Not just that he point’s out how to market urban cycling and elaborates on the true value and meaning of being out in the city flowing around on a bicycle (shoulder to shoulder with your fellow citizens)…

They Must Unite! Taxi Protest Against Uber!

From our Studio in Berlin we just had a great view over the taxi protest round up at Ernst-Reuter Platz. The taxi industry unites in many european cities today against the 17 billion dollar company Uber and their fellows. Around 1000 taxis just passed by the 17th of June Street to show their anger and fear…

A Social System Between Vehicles That Support Each Other

It’s very likely that in future the streets will be dominated by self driving, autonomous acting and smart thinking robots that carry goods and persons through different modes of transportation channels. If you zoom out and and observe this scenario from a greater point of view, It stands to reason to compare this with a social…

Apply Now For The 2014 Program

Startupbootcamp Berlin is the leading global startup accelerator with a focus on Smart Transportation & Energy – The Connected and Efficient Mobility of People and Goods. The Berlin program has pivoted to focus on Smart Transportation and Energy, and a new program is being built in San Francisco with a planned launch in the Fall of 2014. They come…

Tobias Wallisser @re:publica 2014: How Future Mobility Will Transform The City

At the sub-conference “re:think mobility” of re:publica 2014, moovel GmbH and Daimler AG hosted Prof. Tobias Wallisser (from l-a-v-a), expert for innovative space concepts, talking about how cities will change according to the new possibilities of transportation. There’s unfortunately no english subtitles. Sorry for that, but we really liked this speech  – so at least to the german speaking…

Brose E-Bike Engine

There are just a few serious big companies like Bosch and Panasonic sharing the market of electric engines for pedelecs and s-pedelecs. This year (2014) they might get serious competition by the lightweight Brose E-Bike Engine from continental. This continental engine weights just 3.4 kilograms which is 25 % less of the competitors. The new 240 times…

First Partner! A Real Expert in Urban Riding Culture

We are really happy at the moment for being able to win the first official partner for our project about alternatives in urban mobilities. The great expertise about urban cycling culture comes from BIKE PUNK BERLIN. It’s an urban-inspired track bicycle company, founded in 2010 in the city of Berlin, that’s committed to the various fields around cycling…

City Vs. Car

At Ernst-Reuter-Platz Berlin we found this beuatiful piece of art. Arranged by the most creative artist of our times: the city itself. The city proves its whole potential in strength and resistance against the predominant form of mobility in this master piece of modern art. Through a sneaky act of malice and destructionthe the artist…

Infrastructure Solutions for Unlimited Electric Mobility

The ubitricity Mobile Metering concept rethinks infrastructure solutions for electric vehicles and will revolutionize EV charging. Rather than installing metering and communication technology inside every single charging point, metering and billing is processed by electronics inside the car or the charging cable. Charging points are reduced to simple and highly cost-efficient system sockets. These sockets…

Berliner Fahrradschau. Great!

Some impressions from Berliner Fahrradschau happening last weekend. It’s the fifth time, the bike scene gathers together to celebrate this one vehicle: The bicycle! More on the fashion and lifestyle side the event covers every aspect about riding culture. BMX, MTB, Trail, Fixie and Co: all the different bike scenes under one roof. The latest…

Cable Cars For Mass Transit: The Wire!

Once more for those who haven’t seen it, yet. Here is the great pitch from Michael McDaniel for The Wire Austin. Fun to watch and it makes perfect sense. Companies like Leitner Ropeways and Doppelmayr have started to get into this new market and the first projects, like the Gondola Project have been realized already

Flashback electrified!

Whoever visited Berlin recently – no way to get around this marketing bomb: The visitor’s-days by Volkswagen’s e-mobility week at Berlin Tempelhof. Several big events using the motto “electrified!” which included electric beats as well as test driving the new e-Golf, the e- up and some plug-in-hybrids. We’ve been there to check out the meaning…

Let’s Take The Waterslide Instead Of The Bus!

This giant 90m water slide is currently being developed for presentation on Park Street in central Bristol by Luke Jerram. He aims to install it for Make Sundays Special and Bristol Art Weekender on 4th May. Enabling people to navigate the streets of their city in a new way, the slide is a simple architectural intervention and a playful response…

Einladung zur Umfrage

https://www.soscisurvey.de/urbanmobility/ Mobilität betrifft uns alle! Mit nur 17 Fragen zu deinem Verkehrsverhalten unterstützt du nicht nur unsere Masterarbeit, sondern hast auch die Möglichkeit, die Zukunft in Fragen Mobilität mit zu gestalten. Diese Befragung findet im Kontext unserer Masterarbeit statt und ist eine rein wissenschaftliche Umfrage ohne kommerzielle Interessen. Es gibt kein “richtig” oder “falsch” und…

For Bike’s Safety

Since a few days you can see these traffic displays in Berlin with a new message: Keep at least 1,5 meters distance to cyclistes while overtaking! I was actually wondering weather this text is displaeyed due to a rising amount of accidents between cars and cyclists or if the amount of cyclist itself is increasing!…

Work in Progress – The Toolbox

Here is a quick snap shot from our studio at TU Berlin. The project is getting more and more in shape, for the moment we’re in the middle of designing a method to handle and overlook the various and complex components that influence urban mobility. We call it the toolbox: A very important part is…

A Great Event About Urban Riding Culture – March 22nd

See you there! More information at berlinerfahrradschau.de Ever since it moved into the picturesque halls of the postal freight depot at the STATION-Berlin on Gleisdreieck in 2010, the BERLINER FAHRRADSCHAU has established itself as a contemporary and independent trade fair for bicycle culture and lifestyle. Urban bicycle themes, bicycle accessories, and bicycle fashion are the special…

Surf the streets like this!

Huvrtech is the messias of skateboarding. Back in the days we we’re back in the future when Marty was mcflying on the pink hoverboard with an odd haircut and an oldschool red vest. May his fashion seem vintage today, but we still love to run around in nike sneakers and we all definitely want to surf on…

One year of urban biking in Berlin

This morning I joined a seminar with Till Nagel. One of his amazing projects was a little gift to his mother, where he mapped his monthly bike ride – visualized a little postcard from the data an sent it back to his mother. Nice! Check out his amazing work on urban data visualizations at tillnagel.com

Fucked up streets for arts sake!

Cold winter seasons harm serious damage to the streets every year. As the streets age, their conditions get worse rapidly. Deep cracks draw through the pavement, and cause deep wholes. The artists from http://www.mypotholes.com made me grin. With a different point of view, they transform damaged streets into charming, artsy scenes. The city is a playground and…

Check out Jeff Speck on Ted: Talking about walking. Enjoy!

Jeff Speck is a city planner and architectural designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he oversaw the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and created the Governors’ Institute on Community Design, a federal program that helps…

How cool is that?!

“The Atom” a small gadget adding to your bicycle to power any of your electronic devices via USB under 100 $. For a longer bike tour a must have. But the name? I don´t get it.