Future of travel to come in clear focus at Hypermotion Dubai 2021

October 25, 2021: The trade fair, congress and event organiser Messe Frankfurt announced that the future of travel is taking shape now, and will come into clear focus in Dubai next month (November) at the breakthrough Hypermotion Lab.

This three-day conference – one of a trio scheduled for the transformational Hypermotion Dubai event running at Dubai Exhibition Centre at Expo Dubai from November 2-4 – is drawing together the global disruptors who are re-envisioning how we will travel and move goods and services in the near future.

Register here: Hypermotion Dubai 2021 / Materials Handling Middle East

The multi-national speaker platform comprises transport gurus whose combined imagination will take us to new ways of going places. They are tearing down boundaries between logistics, mobility, infrastructure, and transport, and looking to replace them with networked, integrated, and inter-modal systems.

Take Prof. Carlo Ratti, director, Senseable City Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who’s planning to introduce us to the ‘Fifteen-Minute City’ where traffic jams, polluted air and long commutes will become things of a not-so-distant past. In essence, this is a new urban planning model which divides cities into ‘isochronal’ neighbourhoods that can be easily explored on foot within 15 minutes.

“Each of these neighbourhoods is equipped with all the facilities needed in everyday life, and can effectively reduce commuting time, traffic congestion, as well as pollution,” Prof. Ratti contends. “The audience will have an opportunity to discover some of the best urban planning practices to implement this concept, from Paris, to Portland, to the Milan Innovation District.” 

And when it comes to logistics, Prof. Ratti believes big data will come to the rescue. “I will address the difficulties faced by informal settlements like Brazil’s favelas. Without proper addresses, even Amazon cannot make deliveries there nowadays. Work has been conducted by MIT Senseable City Lab to scan Rocinha, one of the country’s biggest favelas, which collects enough data points to establish a framework to assign property titles to residents, with the goal to make their lives more convenient.”

And making life more convenient will be the focus of Josh Giegel, CEO & co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop, the American transportation tech company that’s looking to commercialize high-speed vacuum train technology when he takes to the Hypermotion Lab platform. He’ll be giving delegates an insight into what it’s like to ride in a hyperloop and address its benefits for transporting cargo and passengers.

Giegel adds the all-electric hyperloop with zero direct emissions will address three key challenges of transport today - sustainability, cost, and speed.

And if you think life is fast-paced now, hyperloop plans to change the face of delivery forever. 

“Hyperloop can deliver cargo at the speed of light and closer to the cost of trucking,” states Giegel. “Today, on-demand deliveries are novel. Tomorrow, they will be the expectation. The need for faster trade continues to grow and existing systems are outdated. 

“With hyperloop, transport can take hours versus days. We have the opportunity to expand the capacity for high-priority, on-demand goods typically served by air — fresh food, medical supplies, electronics, and more. We could also expand freight transportation capacity, connecting with existing modes of road, rail, ports, and air transport.”  

In all 27 mobility pioneers from all corners of the globe will share their transformative ideas on the impact of big data, urban air mobility, alternative fuels and the latest on the GCC rail network. Hypermotion Lab, says event organisers Messe Frankfurt, is “a unique platform for disruptors and disruption.”

“It is a stage for founders and true innovators, where insights into the future move firmly into the spotlight, where what is old is re-thought and what is new is put to the test through a specifically curated programme of future-orientated pioneering projects and solutions, all connected by infrastructure and technology,” commented Simon Mellor, CEO of Messe Frankfurt Middle East.