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March 30, 2021

Credit: Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator

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

Example of mobility as a service app. Source: https://live-sumclearningcenter.pantheonsite.io/overview/towards-the-promise-of-mobility-as-a-service-maas-in-the-u-s-2020/

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

Branded docking hub for hybrid bikeshare system

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 ...

March 2, 2021

Oakland streets closed to Thru Traffic. Credit: Oakland, CA,

Cities Explore New Curb Management Strategies During COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021

Transportation for America released “COVID and the Curb”, providing case studies and policy recommendations regarding curb management during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.While curb management has ...

March 2, 2021

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Uber Outlines Potential for Partnerships with Transit Agencies, 2021

Transportation network company (TNC) Uber released “Transit Horizons: Toward a New Model of Public Transportation”, a paper highlighting opportunities for partnerships with transit agencies. In the ...

February 26, 2021

Speaking of change, Transportation Inflection Reflection is now on YouTube, 2021

The February 17 virtual panel brought together diverse industry voices and thought leaders to talk about the fast changes happening and the deep, systemic changes that need to happen to move transportation to ...

February 24, 2021

Spin to Pilot 3-Wheeled Scooter with Teleoperating Capabilities, Boise, Idaho, Spring 2021

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v34YCW9bxzA&feature=emb_logo[/embed] In Spring 2021, Spin, an e-scooter operator owned by Ford Mobility, will deploy the S-200, a three-wheeled scooter designed ...