Adopting Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will help businesses achieve sustainable growth, creating greater value through faster design, novel products, reduced risks and elimina...

Loic Tassel 16 Jan 2019

International Trade and Investment

Why the world is not as globalized as you think

Correcting misperceptions about the scale of global interconnections can help assuage concerns about globalization and foster a more constructive, fact-based discourse.

Frank Appel 15 Jan 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

How major cities can fight climate change... and make billions

Implementing bike lanes and better building codes could bring world cities more than $580 billion in benefits, researchers say.

Michael Taylor · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 07 Dec 2018

Future of Production

How intertwined supply chains can lead to economic shocks, and why we must protect against it

The intertwined nature of global supply chains can lead to economic shockwaves.

Petr Matous, Yuzuka Kashiwagi, and Yasuyuki Todo · VoxEU 07 Dec 2018

Future of Mobility

China greenlights first underwater high-speed railway

China's high-speed rail network is the largest in the world, and it's about to expand under the sea.

John McKenna 06 Dec 2018

Supply Chain and Transport

Singapore is launching an on-demand bus service to cut congestion

The six-month trial will use mobile technology and aims to reduce congestion, cut costs and provide passengers with a more efficient service.

Rina Chandran · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 04 Dec 2018

Switzerland

Family-friendly Swiss trains are playgrounds on wheels

Mountains. Milk chocolate. Pocket knives with lots of useful appendages. These are a few of Switzerland’s most famous things. Maybe reliable, family-friendly public transport should be an...

Sean Fleming 28 Nov 2018

Drones

The first ever kidney delivered by drone was a flying success

A test flight by the University of Maryland delivered the organ in good condition.

Devin Coldewey · TechCrunch 23 Nov 2018

Japan

70% of women in Tokyo back single-sex transport amid safety concerns

Women in Tokyo are the most in favour of single-sex carriages, a poll of the world's biggest commuter cities has found.

Machel Reid and Beh Lih Yi · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 21 Nov 2018

Supply Chain and Transport

Here's what the shipping container has done for globalization

Mapping the movement of millions of shipping containers can reveal shifts in global economic power.

Nick Routley · Visual Capitalist 21 Nov 2018

Cities and Urbanization

These are the 10 busiest metros in the world

Each day some 168 million passengers ride subways in 178 cities around the world, according to a new report that crunches the data on the world’s metro systems.

Rosamond Hutt 19 Nov 2018

Supply Chain and Transport

These are the 10 biggest concerns for women on public transport

A new Thomson Reuters poll looks at the key concerns women have about using public and private transport in 5 major commuter cities around the globe.

Reuters Staff · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 19 Nov 2018

3D Printing

4 ways 3D printing can revolutionize manufacturing

‘Additive manufacturing’ needs to embrace change, such as sustainability and materials flexibility, if it’s going to fulfil its true potential for industry.

Hugo Da Silva 16 Nov 2018

Environment and Natural Resource Security

Greater Paris is going to ban old diesel cars from next summer

The Greater Paris region will become a low-emission zone from next summer, which will limit the circulation of old diesel cars.

Reuters Staff · Reuters 14 Nov 2018

France

Paris is launching a massive fleet of electric bicycles

To reduce pollution and congestion, Veligo bikes will be offered to citizens for 40 euros per month.

Geert De Clercq · Reuters 12 Nov 2018

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