The Future of Urban Mobility | Oren Shoval | TEDxJaffa

Tired of sitting in traffic? Wish the public transit system in your city could be a viable way to move around? Oren presents the future of public transportation: on-demand shuttle networks. A fleet of dynamically routed vans adapts to the real-time demand and traffic conditions, and provides users with efficient and convenient mobility. Data is the infrastructure of the dynamic shuttle network which can be rapidly and inexpensively deployed in cities across the globe. Oren shares the story behind Via: the world’s first dynamic shuttle network. For more information on this particular TEDx event, see Oren Shoval is the co-founder and CTO of Via, which is re-engineering public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via is currently operating its platform in New York, Chicago, and Washington DC, and is also licensing its on-demand transit technology to transportation operators globally. Oren is a former consultant at McKinsey, and has spent 10 years in the Israeli Air Force developing and deploying real-time avionic systems. Oren holds a PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science where he focused on finding simplifying patterns in complex biological phenomena. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at