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April 13, 2021

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Lime Launches Moped Program in Washington, DC, 2021

Lime has started its first-ever electric moped program in Washington, DC. Starting with a fleet of 100 mopeds, Lime plans to expand its fleet to 600 vehicles. With the introduction of the e-moped program, ...

April 13, 2021

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Board of Supervisors Approves Funding for Microtransit Pilot during Tourism Season, Placer County, CA, 2021

The Placer County Board of Supervisors approved $465,000 to fund a free on-demand microtransit pilot through Tahoe Truckee Area Regional Transit (TART), which serves the North Tahoe region in California. ...

March 30, 2021

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Capital Metro Expands Microtransit Service to Pflugerville, TX, 2021

Capital Metro, the public transit provider for the Austin metropolitan area in Texas, has announced an expansion to its microtransit service, Pickup, to Pflugerville, a suburb, for a one-year pilot. Customers ...

March 30, 2021

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Microtransit Service Expands Operating Hours to Weekends in Jersey City, New Jersey, 2021

Jersey City has announced that its microtransit service, Via Jersey City, is expanding its operations to Saturdays after starting just over one year ago in February 2020. Operating in partnership with ...

March 30, 2021

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Santa Monica Pilots Zero Emissions Delivery Zone, 2021

The City of Santa Monica, California, in partnership with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), has launched a voluntary Zero Emissions Delivery Zone (ZEDZ). Scheduled to operate until the end of ...

March 30, 2021

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Carshare Operator Expanding to Portland, Oregon, 2021

Free2Move, a carshare company, has announced that it plans to expand operations to Portland, Oregon in the spring or summer of 2021. Currently, Free2Move operates in Washington, DC, Paris, Lisbon, and ...

March 24, 2021

Webinar: Decarbonizing Transportation beyond Electrification, Shared Mobility Rocks, 2021

Shared-Use Mobility Center was the US headliner for Shared Mobility Rocks 2021, a 24-hour online global symposium. At Shared Mobility Rocks, SUMC moderated two sessions. The second session, focused on ...

March 24, 2021

Webinar: Innovative Approaches to Micromobility, Shared Mobility Rocks 2021

Shared-Use Mobility Center was the US headliner for Shared Mobility Rocks 2021, a 24-hour online global symposium. At Shared Mobility Rocks, SUMC moderated two sessions. The second session, focused on ...

March 18, 2021

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Transit Agencies Providing Incentives and Easier Access to COVID-19 Vaccines, 2021

Around the United States, public transit agencies are looking to connect their employees and customers to the COVID-19 vaccine. Some of the creative strategies employed by these agencies include fare-free ...

March 18, 2021

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Google Maps Now Offers In-App Options to Pay for Parking and Transit, 2021

Google Maps is now offering in-app payment options for parking and transit on Android smartphones, which will soon also be available on iOS smartphones. Through agreements with parking solutions providers ...

March 11, 2021

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Lime Seeks to Provide New Adaptive Vehicles, New York, New York, 2021

Lime is looking to provide a variety of new accessible vehicles for New York City’s micromobility pilot. Since late 2019, Lime has piloted accessible vehicles for people with disabilities in cities like ...

March 11, 2021

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Better Bike Share Partnership to Issue Micromobility Grants Across Five Cities, Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Portland, Oregon, Cincinnati, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2021

The Better Bike Share Partnership announced that it will issue $200,000 grants to organizations in five cities as part of its Living Lab program, an initiative that provides technical assistance to participants ...

March 11, 2021

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RTD FlexRide Announces New MaaS Partnership, Denver, Colorado, February 2021

The Regional Transportation District (RTD), the transit agency for the Denver metropolitan area, has released a new smartphone app for its demand-respond transit (DRT) service, FlexRide, in partnership ...

March 10, 2021

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BCycle Introduces New Flexible Docking Technology, Various Cities, February 2021

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcVf1JLg53Y&feature=emb_title[/embed] BCycle, one of the largest bikesharing companies in the United States, has released a new dock model that seeks to combine ...

March 3, 2021

Abandoned Tramway Converted to Park, Turin, Italy, 2020

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=6TQYd7IrON0&feature=emb_title[/embed] What originated as a tactical urbanism effort over an abandoned tram line in Turin, a city in northern Italy, has ...