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Ongoing development in Silicon Valley in the field of transportation and mobility is in many ways affecting the Nordic societies. An essential factor in this change is the strong position of global platforms and the high and global ambitions of actors from Silicon Valley in the field of mobility. Between 13-17 January, the Nordic Future Mobility Summit was organized by Nordic Innovation House, Stanford University and Vinnova and Drive Sweden was one of the co-organizers.

Drive Sweden gathered more than 270 people from 8 countries in Gothenburg and presented news, results and insights as the Drive Sweden Forum was held at Chalmers on February 6. State Secretary Mattias Landgren gave some encouraging words for the future, countless meetings took place and strengthened by the day we feel that we are on the right track. Here are a few highlights from this year’s forum.

The Drive Sweden project LIMA has launched its pilot. During an event at Lindholmen Science Park partners of the project and potential test users were given a demonstration of the new mobility service. The service offers travel with most modes of transport, electric cars, real time updates of the traffic and a single-click function to send the receipt to your employer if it is a work related trip.

Now companies at Lindholmen can join the travel app LIMA. This means that the company's employees have access to everything from public transport and bicycles to taxis and electric cars, all collected in the same app.
"Forget complicated and time-consuming travel bills. Everything is automatically managed in the app which you now can register for", says Sofia Löfstrand, project manager at Lindholmen Science Park and responsible for LIMA.

How will digitalization change freight transport? What are the challenges and possibilities? This is being tackled and investigated in this new report funded by Drive Sweden.

In 2019 Drive Sweden’s partnership expanded further by welcoming 33 new partners. Today, Drive Sweden includes 136 partners located in 16 different countries around the world. This gives us a fantastic opportunity to tackle future challenges and develop new solutions together, not just in Sweden, but also internationally.

One of the projects that recently concluded its work is AHA – A Human Approach. This human-centered project has worked with an open mind-set while gathering cities and authorities, industry and of course the people, enabling them to develop a method to create a common agenda. It is true public engagement and an important tool for society planning and industry. And it also lies the foundation for the newly started AHA II.