This book explores the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy and innovative
transportation technologies with regard to urban mobility. Written by government experts
social scientists technologists and city planners from North America Europe and Australia
the papers in this book address the impacts of demographic societal and economic trends and
the fundamental changes arising from the increasing automation and connectivity of vehicles
smart communication technologies multimodal transit services and urban design. The book is
based on the Disrupting Mobility Summit held in Cambridge MA (USA) in November 2015 organized
by the City Science Initiative at MIT Media Lab the Transportation Sustainability Research
Center at the University of California at Berkeley the LSE Cities at the London School of
Economics and Politics and the Innovation Center for Mobility and Societal Change in Berlin.
