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Ford expects to accelerate and launch businesses in the following five areas:
- Transportation operating systems: Ford will expand its open, cloud-based platform that manages information flow and basic transactions in the transportation ecosystem to include other automakers, suppliers, partners, and cities. The company will also launch a developer network to build and support the system.
- Connectivity: Ford’s goal is for U.S. vehicles to have 100% connectivity by 2019 and for global vehicles to have 90% connectivity by 2020. The connectivity will be used to deliver digital services to personal, fleet, and city customers.
- Ride sharing: Using a micro-transit solution, Ford’s goal is to provide employee transportation services for businesses.
- Nonemergency medical transportation: Utilizing the growing health-care transportation market, Ford will expand its nonemergency medical transportation operation into a full business and will serve multiple medical systems.
- Vehicle MaaS: Ford will use vehicle connectivity to deliver data services and fleet optimization to the commercial segment.
To aid in these developments, Ford has acquired two companies: Autonomic, a California-based technology company that specializes in scale, architecture, and leverage for transportation-industry solutions, and TransLoc, a North Carolina-based provider of demand–response technology for city-owned micro-transit solutions. The goal is to establish the transportation mobility cloud platform and scale toward full connectivity and nonemergency medical transportation.
Full article: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Volume 13, Number 2, June 2018 |
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