Synergistic opportunities abound

The horizontal deployment of technologies and knowledge evident in mass-market personal mobility needs to be scaled up in magnitude and performance for commercial vehicles.

The silver bullet from December's SIMCOMVEC 2013 event held in the mobility capital of South Asia, Chennai, for mobility practitioners is that synergies in commercial and passenger vehicle technologies can be effectively harnessed by practicing collaborative innovation and by empowering change through knowledge management.

The horizontal deployment of technologies and knowledge evident in mass-market personal mobility needs to be scaled up in magnitude and performance for commercial vehicles. The technologies and solutions need to become cost-competitive through economies of scale. Necessary to achieve this is a supporting infrastructure for deployment and greater implementation knowledge. OEMs and system integrators have to spearhead the paradigm of open ideation platforms for a seamless exchange of knowledge-based experiential solutions and implementation opportunities.