As temperatures start rising many bicycle enthusiasts wake up from hibernation. While they were giving their bikes a break others continued refining the future of the electric bicycle: the completely chainless Free Drive system from Schaeffler.

Cities of tomorrow are integrated, sustainable, and efficient. New technologies change how we get around, live, work, and shape our life. But how can smart solutions be integrated into existing infrastructure? Experts provide answers.

Some consider the linear city ‘The Line’ to be a visionary millennial project, others an example of absurdity. Here’s a current-state assessment in the spring of 2023 of how a city is supposed to grow 170 kilometers (106 miles) into the desert.

What was the price of the most expensive NFT ever? What does "urban mining" actually mean? And how many pieces of debris do you think are hurtling through orbit? Test your knowledge in our tech quiz.

Urbanization is a worldwide megatrend. However, as irresistible as the appeal of big cities may be, living together at close quarters entails social challenges. Some of the major ones revolve around hauling people and goods. Here are some examples.

The city in an all-new role: as a producer of big data. Professor Gesa Ziemer, PhD, director of the global CityScienceLab, describes the wide range of opportunities resulting from this role.

Västerås, a city with a population of 120,000, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Stockholm, is going to receive a pioneering ­mobility center.

In the wake of the unbridled growth of cities, we’re going to see an evolution of urban mobility. tomorrow digital talked to Harry Evers, managing director of the 2021 ITS World Congress

Neither chain, nor shaft, nor belt - Schaeffler presented the "Bike-by-Wire" system Free Drive as an innovative solution for bicycles at Eurobike 2021 in Friedrichshafen.

Airports of the future for air taxis and delivery drones - this is what they could look like.

From an automotive hot spot to a mobility hub – after its bankruptcy, will Detroit manage to resurrect itself as a North American high-tech center? The prospects are positive.

No other industrialized country has evolved from a developing into a highly industrialized nation at the breathtaking pace that Korea has seen.

What’s it like to live in the world’s biggest city as a foreigner? Andreas Neuenkirchen, an author of numerous books, has been living in Tokyo since 2016. For “tomorrow” he captured a typical day.

The city in science fiction stories rarely lifts the reader’s spirits. In most sci-fi novels, people are living in cramped conditions of dirty megacities instead of picking flowers on Mars. But why?

How are we going to get from A to B in our cities of tomorrow? Exploring this question is part of Daimler futurist Prof. Marianne Reeb’s job. Here she provides some answers.

The term planned city describes the phenomenon of building a city from scratch. Eight examples illustrate why planned cities entail risks and why we need them anyway.

Static structures as symbols of dynamic momentum: Around the world, magnificent train stations are impressive urban islands of permanence in a world of fast-paced mobility.

The urbanization of the world began 10,000 years ago. Since then, humans have been trying to master the challenges it entails. A brief tour of urban development history.

Everything is subject to change – including mobility. Ships, airplanes or automobiles are sent to the scrapyard when progress has made them obsolete. “tomorrow” shows examples of successful transforma

Transformation means progress and nowhere else can it be felt more distinctly than in our cities. Survey the pictures on the following pages and share our amazement.

Whether or not the future will belong to self-driving vehicles has long ceased to be the question, it’s only a matter of when.