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Top Business Tech:Travel is changing with COVID-19 – how can technology help?, by Mark Nicholson

Tuesday, 22 September, 2020

CEO of VivaCity, Mark Nicholson, combines his technical and commercial experience with a passion for bringing AI to the transport systems we all use every day. Looking in particular at the post-pandemic ‘new normal’ and how it’s affected the transport sector.

A common refrain you’ll hear day to day is ‘returning to normal’, whether that’s in the workplace, for sporting events, schools or restaurants. Of course, this return isn’t going to be happening for a long time to come, and ‘normal’ is going to look rather different than before. This is no bad thing per se. Towns and cities have the opportunity to reshape their infrastructure and approaches in a range of areas which will make our changed lives easier and safer. Across the world, organisations such as the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development are looking at ways to help response and recovery to COVID-19. Part of this recovery will undoubtedly focus on how we travel.

Read the full article in Top Business Tech.