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Connecting community transportation roadmap. A birds-eye view of a roundabout with three sections. The first section, "Planning" includes the text "Map out data standardization and identify opportunities," "Identify technology trade-offs," "understand agency operations and technical capacity," and "Identify customer transportation needs." The orange section, "Implementation" includes the text "Bring to scale," "Evaluate, learn, and adjust," "Implement," "Test with customers," "Validate TDS messages," Build TDS-compliant platform," and "Design platform." The blue "Design" section includes the text "Define scope and budget," "Define project goals," "Define use case(s)," "Secure funding," "engage software vendors," and "set performance metrics." A purple ring around the roundabout has the text "Collaborate with industry peers," "Refine the TDS through governance," and "Engage the community."

*New Report* Connecting Community Transportation: The Transactional Data Specification

Human services transportation typically takes the form of what is called demand-responsive transportation (DRT) — services that do not follow fixed routes or schedules. There are an estimated 1,000 DRT services currently operating in the U.S., many ...

Baldwin Regional Area Transit Microtransit Vehicle

A County-Wide Transformation of Demand-Response Service into Microtransit, Baldwin County, Alabama

Brief Summary In 2020, the Baldwin Regional Area Transit System (BRATS) in Baldwin County, Alabama partnered with Via to transition its demand-responsive transit service to an on-demand microtransit service through an Integrated Mobility Innovation ...

Diagram showing range of mobility options, from bikeshare to fixed route.

A Review of Shared Mobility in 2022

Through the Mobility Learning Center (MLC), the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) tracks trends and trajectories in the shared mobility industry. For the top 25 metropolitan areas in the U.S., SUMC collects data on bikeshare, scooter share, carshare, ...

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A Review of Shared Mobility in 2023

Through research, provision of technical expertise to cities and agencies across the region, peer-to-peer convening, and development of tools and other resources, the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) tracks trends happening throughout the shared mobility ...

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Autonomous Vehicles for Equity: Linden LEAP Shuttle, Columbus, OH

Brief Summary The Smart Columbus Initiative used part of a $50 million grant from the US Department of Transportation to pilot the Linden LEAP autonomous shuttle. The Linden LEAP launched in February 2020 in South Linden, a historically disinvested ...

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AVs + Rideshare = RAPID, Arlington, TX

Brief Summary In early 2021, the City of Arlington expanded a public mobility-on-demand (MOD) program city-wide. Arlington previously completed two other autonomous vehicle (AV) pilot projects with separate partners, EasyMile and Drive.ai. Arlington ...

Bike Share Toronto bike against the Toronto skyline

Bike Share Toronto’s Four-year Growth Plan: A Data-driven, Community-focused Network Expansion

Since 2021, the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) has convened an Innovative Transit Micromobility Integration (ITMI) working group, in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). In these working group meetings, representatives from transit ...

Wake County officials stand by a SmartRide van at a ribbon cutting ceremony

Bridging the First and Last 5 Mile Gap: Microtransit in Northeast Wake County, NC

Brief Summary The Wake County Department of Health and Human Services received an Integrated Mobility Innovation (IMI) grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) in 2020 to develop a microtransit pilot, named GoWake SmartRide NE, in northeast ...

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Bridj Microtransit Shutdown

Brief Summary The City of Centennial contracted with Lyft, a transportation network company, to offer customers subsidized fare-free shared rides to and from a nearby light rail station. Customers could travel between the light rail station and anywhere ...

Bringing Clean and Safe Microtransit to a Border Town with Calexico On Demand, Calexico, CA

The Clean Mobility Options is a statewide public program that empowers under-resourced communities across California to better understand and overcome mobility obstacles with vouchers for funding community needs assessments and clean, shared, zero-emission ...

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