Uber has transformed the way that many of us get around cities all over the world. It has now joined forces with Paris¡¯ ?cole Polytechnique (l¡¯X) to create a chair in integrated urban mobility designed to address the transport needs of the future.
The partnership follows the opening of Uber¡¯s latest Advanced Technologies Center, its first research and development hub outside North America, in which it plans to invest?more than €20 million (?17.5 million) over the next five years. This centre will collaborate with l¡¯X in a number of research areas focused on using artificial intelligence to address issues in aviation and electric transport.
Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber¡¯s chief executive officer,?said that he was ¡°excited to partner with ?cole Polytechnique to shape the future of urban mobility, on the ground and in the air¡±, while Jacques Biot, president of ?cole Polytechnique, commented that ¡°to design novel autonomous three-dimensional transportation systems, build intelligent networks to implement them and make them acceptable [to] society, l'X will mobilise its pluridisciplinary research centre and will, via this chair, contribute to the education of new talents to serve mobility industry and services¡±.
