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The City of Austin passed the attached ordinance to add dockless bikesharing to the city's schedule of fees ($30 per bike), thus permitting their operation in the right-of-way. The passage of the ordinance (Ordinance No. 20180201-058) was preceded by ...

In response to the proliferation of electric scooter operators dropping vehicles on public sidewalks, and users operating them in the public right-of-way, in early 2018. In response, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Supervisors ...

The Arlington County Board, in response to the recommendation of its Transportation Commission, authorized a "Shared Mobility Devices Demonstration (“SMD”) Project." While it covers both dockless bikes (including e-bikes) and dockless scooters, it ...

Since the pandemic, countries across the world have seen an increase in cycling as their primary form of mobility. Scotland has paid attention to this trend and has doubled down on already existing efforts to increase the use of e-biking. Scotland’s ...

AN ORDINANCE relating to the Traffic Code of the Seattle Municipal Code, amending sections 11.23.150 and 11.23.160 to expand the free-floating car sharing pilot program to allow a greater number of free-floating car sharing operators and vehicles ...

The New Mobility Playbook seeks to fully integrate both the technological capabilities--Seattle has Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and single payment options--and new modes such as bike sharing and TNCs into its public transportation planning. The core ...

The Seattle Bicycle Master Plan (BMP) aspires to encourage and accommodate more people to ride a bicycle. The BMP provides a blueprint to make it easier to decide to ride a bicycle. The vision of the BMP, which signifies an important shift in the way ...

Seattle's Bicycle Master Plan (BMP) identifies projects and programs to be implemented over the next 20 years, to meet the vision of making riding a bike a comfortable and integral part of daily life in Seattle for people of all ages and abilities. As ...

The City of Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) contracted the University of Washington Bike-Share Studio to produce a feasibility study of bike-share programs in Seattle. Over the course of this project, we compiled a summary of the leading ...

The Seattle Climate Action Plan, adopted in June 2013, focuses on city actions that reduce greenhouse emissions and also support vibrant neighborhoods, economic prosperity, and social equity. Actions are  focused on areas of greatest need and impact: ...