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Arval, a global leader in full service vehicle leasing and new sustainable mobility solutions, announces the appointment of Dan Boiangiu as Director of the International Business Office (IBO). Dan Boiangiu replaces Alessandro Pigazzi, promoted Retail Director of Arval Italy.

Existing mobility trends towards achieving new levels of sustainability and flexibility have been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fleet Managers, Mobility Managers and HR managers need to define their new employees’ mobility patterns, mobility needs and expectations.

What is a Smart City?

You will find different definitions of the concept, various Smart City indexes, and different rankings.
From a mobility perspective, a possible definition could be the following:
Thanks to data, infrastructures, connectivity and new technology, Smart Cities want to improve their residents’ quality of life (safety, security, air quality, health are examples) in a sustainable environment, offering efficient public transports, multi modal mobility and working closely with the private sector. Of course, regulations and policies are implemented in order to accommodate these changes. In France, the city of Lyon wants to exclude diesel car by 2026. In the UK, cities will ban ICE vehicles from 2030 and hybrid from 2035. All these decisions will have an impact on mobility modes in the city centers and city dwellers will have to change their habits.

• Arval launches the first edition of its international career programme “Women in Action”, starting in December 2020 with participants selected from 13 countries
• And announces five new senior management appointments

The idea of the Human Machine Interface (HMI) is as old as the Industrial Revolution. It describes how humans interact with tools, either through switches, voice commands or any other interactive means. The automobile has seen many iterations of HMI throughout the years. Today, AI assistants and near-holographic displays cohabitate with the traditional pedals, steering wheel and gear-lever that have been present since the first car.

Discover more about the barriers, the challenges and the promises related to these various interfaces in this publication.

Today, Arval, a European leader in full service leasing and new mobility solutions, and SIXT, a global provider of high-quality mobility services, announce they have concluded a strategic partnership agreement, by collaborating in all their geographies, beginning with Germany, France, the Netherlands, UK and Belgium.

Following the publication of BNP Paribas Group’s quarterly results, Arval, specialist in vehicle full service leasing and new mobility solutions, announces its activity results for Q3 2020.

The idea of the Human Machine Interface (HMI) is as old as the Industrial Revolution. It describes how humans interact with machines, either through switches, voice commands or any other interactive means. The automobile has seen many iterations of HMI throughout the years. Today, AI assistants and near-holographic displays cohabitate with the traditional pedals, steering wheel and gear-lever that have been present since the first car.

Discover more in our article

Data is a key component of Smart Cities; indeed data help cities to improve air quality, safety, security, sustainability and mobility amongst others.

Does the increasing diversity and volume of data available about urban systems open the possibility of  constructing a quantitative 'science of cities', with the aim of identifying and modelling essential phenomena?

That is the question we asked to Marc Barthelemy Research Director at the Institut de Physique Théorique (CEA-Saclay) and Associate member of the Centre d’Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales (EHESS, Paris), about the Science of Cities.