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Big Blue Bus (BBB), the City of Santa Monica’s municipal bus operator, and non-profit social services organization, WISE and Healthy Aging, have partnered with Lyft to launch MODE (Mobility On-Demand Every Day), a ridesharing program intended to transform ...

The North American Bikeshare Association created in January 2018 the first version of their model ordinance for dockless bikesharing.  The organization emphasizes that the bikeshare holds the potential to increase a place's livability and quality of ...

Motional, an autonomous vehicle (AV) company, and Via, a booking and routing technology vendor, are partnering to offer a fare-free robotaxi service throughout downtown Las Vegas. Customers can use Via’s app to request rides to and from anywhere within ...

In 2019, Mountain Line - the public transit agency serving the Flagstaff, AZ area - released a study assessing the feasibility of on-demand transit service. The study explores how the agency might be able to leverage on-demand service along areas of low-performing ...

One of the strategies behind the introduction of bike share to Baltimore is to help residents better access the existing rail infrastructure throughout the city. The plan calls for installing bike share stations at 15 MARC, Metro, and light rail stations.  ...

Google-owned collaborative ridesharing tool, Waze Carpool, has expanded both its areas of operation and official partnerships. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, University of California at San Francisco, and Kaiser Permanente, all of whom have ...

Plan Bay Area, the region’s long-range transportation plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy, invests $13 million in car sharing over the course of the Plan to achieve a 2.6 percent per capita reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Car Sharing ...

This TOD policy addresses multiple goals: improving the cost- effectiveness of regional investments in new transit expansions, easing the Bay Area’s chronic housing shortage, creating vibrant new communities, and helping preserve regional open ...

In April 2014, MTC programmed $2 million of Cycle 2 Congestion Mitigation Air Quality Program (CMAQ) funds to increase car sharing in Bay Area communities as part of the Climate Initiatives Program (Climate Program). The Climate Program is a multi-faceted ...

The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) has partnered with Lyft to offer discounted, on-demand rides to/from select transit stations on Tuesdays, through their Transit Tuesday initiative. Through this program, the first 500 riders to claim the ...