 Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva where we're here for the Future Networks car symposium Which is happening this year at ITU because the Geneva Motor Show where it was originally going to be held has been cancelled but I'm here with Roger Langto who is a director of Connected Mobility and Global Automotive Practice for strategy analytics Roger welcome to the studio. Thank you very much now. I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about Intelligent transport and I wanted to ask you what is the biggest topic of conversation intelligent transport at the moment? I think one of the biggest challenges remains getting the ITS industry sort of Connected up with the automotive industry. These industries don't communicate very well together They often don't even participate in one another's events and another Participant that's that tends to be missing at ITS events is the technology industry So the Silicon Valley crowd and the like so Trying to join up those three points of the compass maybe Is the big challenge facing that industry I think now looking Into the future of mobility. I wanted to ask you what are your predictions for the future of mobility? How a regulator is thinking about it how a industry player is thinking about it and what should we expect as consumers? So the entire industry is moving towards trying to get towards a more of a European kind of a delivery Mechanism where you know you would have one means of payment Maybe it's just an app or maybe a card or something that encompasses all transportation options And so that's the big headline Activity that's underway and it involves payments involves infrastructure, etc where there is some confusion is what is the role of cars and that's my world and Just coming from another conference recently. There was a lot of talk of you know, we're not going to have cars we're not going to have car parks and You know people start talking about doing away with all these things You know you get the vision of throwing the baby out with the bath water So I think there's some sort of middle ground There is a role for cars and I dare say in a corona virus environment Private vehicle ownership is suddenly looking very attractive Our industry players and road regulators you think now aligned in their vision of the future of mobility Well, I think The regulators are coming to terms with all of these new options. Where does car sharing fit in where does ride hailing fit in Where does micro mobility scooters fit in and oh by the way, we have all this mass transit That's really is quite wonderful actually and you know what those taxi drivers We're actually doing a pretty good job before we let all the ride hailing guys in and almost destroy their business so I expect a Rediscovery of public transportation. In fact, I'm seeing this happen I expect a sort of an insurgency from the taxi industry with the help of some technology companies and I Expect that regulators will start to piece together what their expectations are for Scooters do we want them do we not we've seen them welcomed and then shunned and banned and kicked out So we're still exploring how to use that technology geofensive maybe help it fit in Car sharing after decades of being available. So it's really not that new a phenomenon There's still only about four hundred thousand shared cars on the planet in the reality Almost every car could be should be shareable or shared so there's something missing in that equation and I think there's a regulatory piece that that could be helpful thinking of recent industry or public sector announcements in the intelligent transport arena Do any interesting must-watch projects come to mind the European data task force? I think it creates some intriguing opportunities and possibilities of joining up infrastructure data with vehicle data to create a Safer driving environment, maybe a more efficient and cleaner driving environment They're also I wouldn't call it per se an initiative, but I would be a little bit remiss if I didn't mention the rather serious drive particularly again in Europe towards Essentially doing away with the internal combustion engine by 2035 or 2040 That's a that's a pretty serious mandate and movement in the market and Actually it it meshes very nicely with the car sharing and ride-hailing markets and I expect That taxis rental cars all of these kind of fleets that are out there are going to shift very aggressively towards EV So maybe people can't afford EVs They may be put off a little bit by the price, but fleets they make perfect sense And so there will be a significant transformation an electrification of vehicle fleets and do you think that's an achievable ambition? I think so I think it's going to ramp up the adoption rate much more rapidly than trying to sell and Relay solely on selling EVs to consumers directly and finally. What's the value of this symposium to you and the wider intelligent transport community? This is where I come to better understand how the standard setting bodies across Europe and across the world are trying to come to grips with this car connectivity proposition securing cars electrifying cars Monetizing or or understanding the data that's coming out of cars and optimizing these in-vehicle experiences both for making them Enjoyable and continuing to have that opportunity, but also making them safe and clean Well, thank you very much for joining us here in the studio today And we look forward to catching up with you again since some stage in the in the very near future. Thank you Glad to be here. Thank you