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Africa, with its growing integration into technology-intensive industries, abundant raw materials for renewable energy markets, a young, dynamic workforce, and integration through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), presents a significant ...

As part of SUMC’s on-going efforts to chronicle and assess how cities and transportation sectors are impacted by the novel COVID-19 coronavirus, this case study explores how public transit agencies in particular have addressed the unique challenges ...

Brief Summary In 2018, the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) began developing an on-demand microtransit project to address transportation access challenges in areas of the city with unreliable fixed-route service.  Through the Memphis Transit ...

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 ...

This analysis is designed to complement SUMC's webinar on Shared Mobility for People with Disabilities -- Challenges and Opportunities for Paratransit Brief Summary The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) partnered with TransDev in ...

Summary In 2020, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) received an Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant to deploy and monitor a geofencing functionality within Wave's smart ticketing technology with the intention that it could lead ...

Summary With support from a Federal Transit Administration Integrated Mobility Innovation grant, Cecil Transit in Cecil County, Maryland, launched the Cecil On-demand Mobility Platform and Service Solution (COMPASS), a microtransit service specifically ...

Brief Summary The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) partnered with Lyft on a pilot program to provide fast and convenient paratransit service. The program aimed to ease demand on its traditional paratransit service, address ...

Brief Summary Drawing on experiences with unregulated systems from other cities, Seattle, WA created the first permit program in the country aimed towards a regulated and structured dockless bikeshare marketplace following the closure of the city’s ...

The Shared Mobility Benefits Calculator is a tool for cities to estimate the emissions benefits from deploying various modes of shared mobility. Using these estimates, policymakers can envision and set goals towards reducing congestion, household transportation ...