We are inviting you to participate in a global challenge of ideas for significantly improved mobility solutions. We encourage various approaches – engineering, energy, social impact, urban planning and more. Read all about it below for rules and how to register and participate.
Student Projects we support
We support all efforts for a better mass mobility – Any SFFM member can ask for funding and other resources as long as you make a commitment to the core values (the SFFM “Framework”). Your ideas are evaluated by the PCC organization Tech board. You can download the documentation here.
Our Student program – SFFM – Students for Future Mobility
The main work PCC does is between our conferences. We engage in a series of projects under the SFFM program – Students for Future Mobility, some initiated by students by themselves or “Challenges” from the PCC leaders and members.
Solar Skyways – USA
The Solar skyway project is a long-term, international research initiative to design, develop and eventually implement solar powered automated rapid transit elevated network systems adaptable to different environments. By far the longest running student program is Solar…
A SFFM Simulator – Interested in programming simulation in Open source?
Participate and develop a great tool for anyone who wants to plan for a future mobility system. Features: Two parts of the development are based on SUMO By DLR – Link …and Podaris by Podaris…
Visualize Urban Planning
4D models for communicating and simulating urban planning 4Dialog as a part of the SFFM program offers students and premium members training in visualizing a future mobility system. This is always in collaboration with an…
Join in our round table meetings – North America, Europe, East Asia – Welcome to our seminars and conferences.
At our meetings we share ideas and present current developments in the existing paradigms and ideas for completely new technologies for the future of mass transit. As a member you can attend all presentations and discuss your own ideas or participate in other projects as an added resource. We focus on the SFFM – Students For the Future Mobility Program and all projects, ongoing or planned. More membership information
The full conferences have been ongoing since 2007 and from 2026 we are now expanding our work by collaborating with other organizations, individuals and universities. You can register directly here below for free zoom meetings and the full conference.
Podcar City Conference – Upcoming large conference to be published here soon
Previous conferences here
Podcar City Conference – All other meetings – Next upcoming meeting
See the list of our speakers and the schedule
Follow our news for the latest updates within future mobility and the SFFM!
There are many more ideas that both our members and others are working on. Here we recommend some of these ideas and projects that we think are worth considering and are inspirational, blogs, industry news and challenges.
Tech: The PCC Techboard
The PCC continuously reviews and updates the SFFM project ideas and conference proposals. We post our work in our newsletters. At the yearly conference all members have a possibility to comment and advise on possible…
Challenge: We are making a PCC Simulator
Come dance with us! Empower innovators with digital tools to enable people to understand what PCC is aiming for.
Tech: Five levels of Podcar technologies
Just like the development in the car world, we are developing a list of levels of Podcar development stages. We are working on 5 distinct stages from experimental small systems to nationwide infrastructure servicing the…
Industry: French developments – Nancy
The city of Nancy is expanding their Podcar Network Urban Loop is a fast and autonomous guided transport solution, with journeys without stops or connections and immediate support, the Urbanloop project meets the challenges and needs of…
Column: Christer Lindström – There is no such thing as a green car
. This is not a pipe ceci n’est pas une pipe Painted by Magritte in 1929 or The Treachery of Images. 100 years later after the famous Magritte painting – By 2029 it is time…
Column: Meet Jennifer Rodrigo
. Jennifer has been crafting copy for multiple mediums for 40 years. She began writing as a reporter for a business magazine, then gathered public relations experience and with that moved into the advertising world…
Industry: Advanced Transit Association – Now a partner of PCC
The Advanced Transit Association (ATRA)[1] is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to encourage the development and deployment of Automated Transit Networks, including personal rapid transit systems. ATRA was formed in 1976 and in 1988…
Industry: Glydways Getting even more backing
Suzuki Motor Corporation, Sam Altman (Apollo), Bill Gates (Gates Frontier Fund), and Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) are all now in together to support the concept of a new systems approach of future mobility through the…
What Podcar City and Students For Future Mobility is all about
what we do and why we do it
The current paradigm of mass mobility is not perfect. Regardless if we improve our technologies by incremental change, the basic solutions of today have a huge toll on humans and earth resources. There is no green car, no road based individual or shared mobility system that does not create congestion and urban planning difficult for human living.
The people behind Podcar City is based on a very simple idea. We ask ourselves – Can we do better?
If we have a clean slate and do mass mobility with current technologies – how would that be like ? Can we learn from existing ideas and concepts, that do not exclude groups of people, that is available and safe, efficient, comfortable and can scale up?
We share ideas and thoughts in projects such as SFFM – and then we meet in seminars, conferences and discuss our findings. It is everything from urban planning, vehicle design, safety issues, earth resources, and everything we think matters. We invite everyone to participate regardless of background. We welcome you to be immersed in our work or if you like, just stay on the sideline and observe. Some of you help us with spreading our work, some support us financially and some of you have a very important talent that could benefit a project.
We do this for the future generations as it is the young who own the future.
The PCC is a non-profit member organization dedicated to fostering the creation of intellectual property and real-world sustainable mass mobility implementations using renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro) for transportation. The programs have been ongoing since 2007, starting in Sweden and the USA. The main work is done in the Students For Future Mobility program – SFFM and our Podcar City events .