Resource Library

April 24, 2020

Status Update, April 23: COVID-19 Crisis Impact on Transit & Shared Mobility

Brief Summary This is the second status update on impacts and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This update is organized by mode and explores the trends that emerged through April, when most stay-at-home ...

April 22, 2020

Source: Christchurch International Airport

Autonomous vehicle trial enters second trial phase, Christchurch, NZ, 2019

At Christchurch International airport in New Zealand, an electric-powered autonomous Navya 15-person shuttle began testing on private airport roads in 2017 as part of an AV trial.  The shuttle was on ...

April 22, 2020

Source: Transdev

Microtransit: The Next Mobility Revolution or Much Ado About Nothing?And by the way, what exactly is microtransit?, 2019

“Microtransit: The Next Mobility Revolution or Much Ado About Nothing?And by the way, what exactly is microtransit?", a whitepaper published by Transdev, offers a private sector perspective of microtransit ...

April 22, 2020

Source: Urban Transport News

National autonomous vehicle standards, Singapore, 2019

In February 2019, Singapore's Land Transport Authority published its provisional national standards to guide the development and deployment of fully autonomous vehicles. These standards, referred to as ...

April 22, 2020

Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona; Before and After Infographic of Horta superblock

Barcelona superblock initiative, Barcelona, 2016

Barcelona, Spain plans to build 500 "superblocks" around the city over the coming decades. These so-called "superblocks" are several adjacent blocks grouped together, where through traffic by vehicle is ...

April 9, 2020

FTA Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility: Lessons from focus groups on barriers to transportation coordination, 2018

With the 2015 passage of the federal Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, the interagency Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility (CCAM) was codified into law, and it was tasked with ...

April 9, 2020

Source: CDC

Status Update, April 8: COVID-19 Crisis Impact on Transit & Shared Mobility

Brief Summary This case study describes how cities and transportation sectors throughout the country have been impacted in the initial weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they responded. Public ...

March 24, 2020

Credit: Arlington, VA

Vision Zero San Francisco E-Scooter Collision and Injury Analysis report, 2019

In April 2019, the Vision Zero San Francisco Injury Prevention Research Collaborative released an analysis on e-scooter collisions and injuries. The analysis combines data from both City and County sources ...

March 24, 2020

Hawai'i Shared Mobility Roadmap, Hawai'i Island, 2020

In March 2020, the Shared-Use Mobility Center published a plan for expanding shared mobility on Island of Hawai'i. This plan, the Hawai'i Island Shared Mobility Roadmap, was developed in conjunction with ...

March 24, 2020

NACTO, Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism, Second Edition, 2019

In September 2019, The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) released the second edition of its Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism. The first edition was published in 2017, and ...

March 24, 2020

Bloomberg Philanthropies & Aspen Institute: Initiative on Cities and Autonomous Vehicles, 2017

In 2017, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute launched their Initiative on Cities and Autonomous Vehicles, which explores the ways in which cities around the globe were preparing for autonomous ...

March 24, 2020

World Economic Forum report: Reshaping Urban Mobility with Autonomous Vehicles: Lessons from the City of Boston, 2018

In June 2018, the World Economic Forum - in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group - published a detailed report regarding autonomous vehicles in the urban context, drawing upon lessons from the ...

March 24, 2020

Volkswagen Autonomous Vehicle Pilot, Hamburg, Germany, 2019

In April 2019, Volkswagen (VW) launched an autonomous vehicle pilot program in Hamburg, Germany. Throughout the pilot, five VW e-Golf vehicles (each marked as a self-driving car and sporting 11 light-detecting ...

March 24, 2020

APTA Resource: Public Transit Response to COVID-19, 2020

In response to the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 Coronavirus in spring of 2020, the American Public Transit Association (APTA) has released a collection of resources for public transit agencies ...

March 18, 2020

DART Flex Connect Partnership with Uber and YellowCabCo, Des Moines, IA, 2019

The Des Moines (Iowa) Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) partnered with Uber and YellowCab to provide connections to its route 5, 14, 16, 50, 92, and 93 buses within the zone shown below and to or ...