By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, an increase of about 50 percent today. Over the same period, more than two billion people are likely to enter the middle class, with the majority of them living in cities in emerging markets. Existing urban infrastructure cannot support such an increase in vehicles on the road and solving the mobility challenge will require bold, coordinated actions from the private and public sectors for gaining public acceptance of emerging technological solutions and creating new regulatory frameworks across Europe and beyond. In this framework, ERTICO’s Senior Manager Piia Karjalainen spoke at the event “The Role of Cities in the Smart...