The report encourages implementing the new models to transportation to the cities. (Image source: Michiel2005/Flickr)

Emerging mobility technologies have the potential to provide transformational benefits for cities, with successful integration requiring focus on smart urban planning, long-term investment and use of the latest solutions, according to Masdar?s report launched at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW)

A woman driving in protest in 2011. (Image Source: Robert Daly/Flickr)

This week, King Salman of Saudi Arabia has issued a decree to lift the ban on women driving in the country - Technical Review Middle East managing editor, Georgia Lewis, looks at what this might mean for multiple sectors in the kingdom

Al Tayer said that the vehicles are fitted with several components of self-driving technologies. (Image source: RTA)

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chief executive of Emirates Airline & Group, and chairman of Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, has launched 50 Tesla electric vehicles to the limo fleet of the Dubai Taxi Corporation, aiming to increasing road-safety and making highway driving more enjoyable by reducing the driver?s workload

The highway project is considered to be one of the most important strategic projects forming part of the Abu Dhabi Plan. (Image source: Musanada)

Abu Dhabi General Services (Musanada) announced that it has completed two phases of the total six packages of Mafraq-Ghuwaifat Highway project, which will link the western region cities to the international borders with Saudi Arabia