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*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 ...
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 ...
Credit: SUMC
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 ...
Linden LEAP Shuttle along the South Linden Route. Credit: Smart Columbus Facebook Page
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 ...
Credit: Via
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’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 ...
GoWake SmartRide NE kick off event in March 2021
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 ...
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 ...
Credit: Shared-Use Mobility Center
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 ...