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The Critical Role of APIs in Mobility Services
The Critical Role of APIs in Mobility Services
Autonomy and research firm Capgemini recently teamed up for a report, “The Future of Mobility as a Service (MaaS): Which Model of MaaS…
Making Microtransit Work When Maps Don’t
Making Microtransit Work When Maps Don’t
On-demand microtransit, where shared rides can be booked and drivers respond to requests in real-time, has been a challenge for mobility…
Attendant App Speeds Up AV Service and Improves the Passenger Experience
Attendant App Speeds Up AV Service and Improves the Passenger Experience
We developed Bestmile Attendant App to ease their work and support additional data reporting. Learn more about this product…
What it means to be “AV-first” when designing a new mobility platform — part 2/2
What it means to be “AV-first” when designing a new mobility platform — part 2/2
At Bestmile we like to say we have built our platform with Autonomous Vehicles first in mind. Unlike many of the existing mobility …
What it means to be “AV-first” when designing a new mobility platform — part 1/2
What it means to be “AV-first” when designing a new mobility platform — part 1/2
At Bestmile we like to say we have built our platform with Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) first in mind. Unlike many of the existing mobility…
Migrating from Terraform to Terragrunt
Migrating from Terraform to Terragrunt
Learn how the Bestmile SRE team took its infrastructure to the next level: from Terraform to Terragrunt.
First and last mile — or how to invest in sustainable transportation
First and last mile — or how to invest in sustainable transportation
Public transit authorities and transport operators realise that one of the most important problems cities are facing is the lack of first…
MOVE America Panels Find Orchestration Key to Reviving Autonomous and Human-Driven Services
MOVE America Panels Find Orchestration Key to Reviving Autonomous and Human-Driven Services
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis that has brought urban mobility to a near standstill, the MOVE America theme of “Mobility Reimagined”
Teleoperation and Orchestration Critical to Current and Future AV Fleets
Teleoperation and Orchestration Critical to Current and Future AV Fleets
While the AV safety driver requirement persists, a new wrinkle is that the drivers don’t have to be inside the vehicles …
Help Surfers Get Cleaner Waves
Help Surfers Get Cleaner Waves
I spent my summer on a French Island in the Atlantic Ocean called “Ile de Ré”. As I come from Switzerland and rarely have the chance to…
Optimistic Concurrency Control in HTTP Services
Optimistic Concurrency Control in HTTP Services
The Bestmile platform exposes several REST APIs that our partners and clients use to efficiently orchestrate their fleets of vehicles.
Quarantines Crushed Urban Mobility. Technology Can Bring It Back
Quarantines Crushed Urban Mobility. Technology Can Bring It Back
Global crisis erased demand just over one night. But technology can help bring it back.
Bestmile -the mobility operators’ choice for Safe, Sustainable and Intelligent Mobility Solutions
Bestmile -the mobility operators’ choice for Safe, Sustainable and Intelligent Mobility Solutions
Research on COVID-19 crisis leads to shocking findings on economy with the mobility industry facing…
Fleet Orchestration: How to Enable Modern Mobility Services with Cloud Software
Fleet Orchestration: How to Enable Modern Mobility Services with Cloud Software
The lockdowns caused by the pandemic have had a dramatic …
Back to Normal? Cities Say, ‘No Thanks’.
Back to Normal? Cities Say, ‘No Thanks’.
The conflict of interests between human and cities on traffic dynamics.
Flexible Fleets for Uncertain Times
Flexible Fleets for Uncertain Times
At first glance, the COVID-19 crisis looked like a death blow to the shared, automated mobility marketplace. When people can’t move, there…
A Glass-Half-Full Vision of Post-Pandemic Urban Mobility
A Glass-Half-Full Vision of Post-Pandemic Urban Mobility
The economic, medical, and social shocks and aftershocks of the global COVID-19 crisis have many pining for life to get “back to normal.”…
Mobileye and Intel Get It: Fleet Orchestration and the Acquisition of Moovit
Mobileye and Intel Get It: Fleet Orchestration and the Acquisition of Moovit
Intel /Mobileye’s vision goes beyond those of automotive and tech companies seeking to become service providers. Here’s what it looks like.
In the right place at the right time
In the right place at the right time
The Swiss start-up Bestmile has developed an orchestration platform for on-demand mobility providers that steers every vehicle in a fleet…
Orchestrating startup and shutdown in Scala
Orchestrating startup and shutdown in Scala
A set of abstractions to manage the lifecycle of any Scala process, from small console apps to large-scale distributed Akka cluster…
Why MaaS could flourish in the new normal
Why MaaS could flourish in the new normal
The COVID crisis has forced cities around the world to make changes in a few months that many believed would take decades. Will they last?
Continuous Development of our Mobility Platform
Continuous Development of our Mobility Platform
Building and evolving a state-of-the-art mobility platform requires more than features. Transport operators expect 24/7 availability…
Can Service Design Save our Cities?
Can Service Design Save our Cities?
Shared mobility services don’t need to be autonomous to save cities from gridlock and pollution, but they do have to be orchestrated…