Transformations in Mobility: Trends, Disruptions and the Future of Mobility and Transportation

Transformations in Mobility provides a panoramic overview of the changing mobility business landscape, helping transportation leaders and consultants make sense of the most important trends, challenges and opportunities impacting this sector.

Drawing on exclusive interviews from thirty of the most important leaders, experts and financiers in transportation spanning all modes and from around the world, the book delves into the practical lessons learned from a demand, regulatory, strategic, technology and leadership perspective and explores the way mobility might evolve in the future. It looks into pressing issues such as fragmentation of demand in mobility, technological disruptions impacting the sector and how far it is possible to decarbonize transport when it is the world’s second biggest source of emissions.

Drawing on cutting-edge insights, this book explores mobility’s shift from supply-driven to demand-driven growth, the role of regulation and standards, digitalization, the emergence of cross-industry coalitions and the decarbonization agenda and its impact on future transport shares. It offers insightful stories and lessons learned from some of the world’s leading industry experts, including some never heard before. It also features exciting case studies such as European Rail Signalling Systems ERTMS and Class 1 Freight Railways in North America.

Gilles Roucolle is the Managing Partner of the European region of Oliver Wyman and is responsible for their EMEA Transportation and Services practice. He has over 30 years’ experience in high-stakes strategic and operational projects worldwide, spanning freight and passenger railways, airlines, logistics, postal, shipping, as well as rail and aerospace suppliers and financial institutions. Roucolle sits on the Business Advisory Committee of Northwestern University’s Transportation Center. He is based in Paris, France.