This past Friday, Japanese car manufacturer Toyota announced that it would be recalling over 2.4 million hybrid cars over a fault that could cause crashes. The announcement effects models of the Prius and Auris hybrid vehicles produced between October 2008 and November …Continue reading
Boeing and Dubai May Collaborate on Autonomous Air Taxi
Flying taxis, once the stuff of science fiction and animated sitcoms like ‘The Jetsons’, now seems poised to take off in the next few years. Dubai has set its sight on introducing futuristic flying taxis in the desert metropolis. Aircraft manufacturing giant …Continue reading
Changing the Way You Ride
The success story of Pakistan’s first rapid mass transit bus project. Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue,” remarks Enrique Peñalosa, mayor of Bogota, Colombia. “The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who benefits from …Continue reading
Careem Continues Operations Despite Legal Notice
Users in Islamabad have reported that transport service Careem continues to operate in the city despite news reports claiming the service was being shut down by the local transport authority. According to these news reports the local authorities and the Islamabad Transport …Continue reading
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Attend First Ever Global Conference on Sustainable Transport
The first ever Global Conference on Sustainable Transport gets underway in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on the 26th of November. The two day event has been convened by the United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, and will likely be attended by nearly 1,500 participants …Continue reading
Albayrak versus Ubergo
Albayrak and Uber launch a new cab service in Lahore, starting a new era of public transport in the city. In a short span of less than three weeks’ time, two major taxi service providers have started offering their services in Lahore …Continue reading