transport

TechCabal’s Friday townhall event to focus on transport, logistics tech in Africa

Are you in Nigeria this week? Want to know more about Africa’s mobility sector, the challenges it is facing and what the future holds?…

Six SA mobility startups you wanna know about

Congestion is growing on city roads — not just in South Africa but in many of the continent’s rapidly expanding cities. But the problem…

New mapping tool like Strava for public transport planners says GoMetro founder

Cape Town mobility startup GoMetro yesterday launched a new self-service application for transport planners to better map and plan transport routes. The startup will partner with…

WhereIsMyTransport ‘okay’, despite retrenchments, disgruntled employees

Investors in public transport data and technology startup WhereIsMyTransport say they are happy with the progress the company is making, despite a recent round…

WhereIsMyTransport releases innovative public transport app in Tshwane

Backed by a fresh new website and Knife Capital’s Grindstone accelerator programme, South African startup WhereIsMyTransport (WIMT) is today releasing its urban transportation and…

GoMetro launches low-cost data mobi site in all 11 official SA languages

Transport data startup GoMetro has just launched a new mobi site designed with the emerging world, specifically South Africa, in mind. GoMetro Mini, as…

The case of Chile’s SaferTaxi: adapting a global trend to a local market

SaferTaxi is a transport mobile application company famous for being one of StartUp Chile’s greatest success stories. In 2011, it was releasing a Beta…

GoMetro relaunches as SA’s social network of transport

In celebration of National Transportation Month in South Africa, data and transport startup GoMetro relaunched this week. Apart from the additional social elements, the…

GoMetro announced as finalist in the 2014 Meffys Awards

GoMetro seems to be on the right track. The transport data startup from Cape Town, South Africa has just announced that it’s been short-listed…

Data and transport app GoMetro wins Get in the Ring 2014 Africa finals

South Africa’s GoMetro has recently been named the winning African startup by Get In The Ring (GITR) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The transport and data…

Stellenbosch University launches Smart Mobility Lab to develop traffic solutions

There’s a lot of room left for R&D in the field of South Africa’s transport industry. With a step in the right direction, Stellenbosch…

GoMetro and MellowCabs partner to make SA cities’ transport smarter

Two South African tech startups recently announced their partnership to better the country’s transportation industry by furthering the idea of smart cities. GoMetro and…

QuickTicket launches crowdfunding campaign, aims to solve transport issues

Cameroon-based company QuickTicket has launched a campaign on Indiegogo today with the hopes of ultimately raising US$14 880. The company aims to solve the…

How will these startups help shape the future of South African transport?

Think what the future of transport will look like in South Africa in a few decades time. Okay, there probably won’t be flying cars…

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