Part 1: Why e-bikes? What if I told you that there was a low-cost transportation policy measure that New York…
As of May, the average rent for an apartment in San Jose is $2,526 per month — 67% higher than the national average. The average cost to buy a home? Almost $1.5 million.
With Partners Shared Mobility Inc and Drop Mobility, the new Charging Station Will Be Used to Charge CDPHP Cycle! Electric…
An Australian university law and technology expert has warned the advent of e-scooters is robbing Australian seniors of what were…
Sweden’s first Mobility Hotel is now opening in Nordstan, one of Sweden’s largest shopping and business centres. The mobility hotel…
A study, led by the UK’s national shared transport charity Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK), will investigate how such services can…
Roughly two-thirds of respondents to an REI Co-op survey said they would ride bikes more if protected bike lanes and…
Are you ready to imagine a world where transportation is not only accessible but also sustainable? Do you want your…
Residents of the Betty Ann Gardens Apartments in San Jose’s Berryessa district today celebrated the opening of a new mobility…
Munich and Nuremberg are set to introduce tighter regulations for e-scooters in response to concerns over uncontrolled parking. In an…
Across the country, municipalities and transit agencies are beginning to embrace electrification in local transportation. They’re showing that the future…
New research from the Urbanism Next Center shows e-scooter parking areas need to be spaced within a few hundred meters…
The sustainability of shared micromobility is an active area of research in a fast-changing industry. Ultimately, researchers see two factors…
Bird today announced that the company has successfully emerged from Chapter 11 proceedings under a newly organized private parent company called Third…
Electric scooter and bike riders must park their shared vehicles in docking stations or they will face fees. Users won’t…
Micromobility in its modern form was born in the late 1990s and early 2000s as publicly-funded and procured bikeshare implemented…
Battery swapping is a potential solution to range anxiety, but it works better for e-scooters than full-size cars currently. E-mobility…
Although sustainability is an important goal in transport policies, the focus is often on environmental sustainability, mostly ignoring economic and…
These American-made cells have grown from a partnership between Nanotech Energy, Soteria Battery Innovation Group and Voltaplex Energy, who are…
Since its launch 10 years ago, Estonian mobility platform Bolt has lived up to its name. From its genesis as…
Just before Christmas, Bird Global announced that it had entered bankruptcy, paving the way for the outfit to restructure its financial operations…
Following a challenging year, the electric scooter company, Bird, previously assessed at a value of $2.5 billion by investors, has…
The world is constantly changing, and with it come new inventions and innovations that push our boundaries. One of those…
We close the year with an homage to a flightless Bird. Not the penguin nor the emu, but the pioneering…
Shared mobility, especially through electric scooters, has experienced explosive growth driven by venture capital and city initiatives. However, the financial…
While many predicted that a shared electric scooter ban could have a knee-jerk reaction to return to larger vehicles, a…
Vianova, a collaborative mobility data platform in Europe, is teaming up with the City of Berlin in a project that…
Many University of Maryland students with disabilities feel the campus has become more hazardous this semester due to poor parking…
NACTO’s 2022 Shared Micromobility in the U.S. and Canada Report examines data from across North America and finds that shared micromobility has ushered…
After Barcelona already clamped down on e-scooters in public transport with a temporary ban after a fire on a train,…
Micro-mobility operator Bolt has announced that it has appointed an independent Micromobility Safety Committee to get expert analysis and recommendations…
The Consumer Product Safety Commission will consider regulating micromobility devices, including e-bikes, but don’t expect anything final to come before…
As e-scooters, hoverboards and e-bikes become more popular for personal transportation and leisure activities, emergency departments are treating an increase…
There might be a few cases of transportation funding whiplash at Portland City Council today. After the grim reality of…
Low-income people are using shared micromobility a lot like they use public transit, a new study finds — and researchers think…
Bird, a leader in environmentally friendly electric transportation, today announced it has acquired shared electric bike and scooter operator Skinny…
Beam and Drover AI are trialling footpath detection and speed limits for Victoria e-scooters to help cities determine how to…
As technology advances and a focus on environmental sustainability grows, e-bikes have emerged as a convenient and eco-friendly mobility solution.…
The City is working with e-scooter providers Bolt and Tuul to create 126 designated spaces for micromobility users to ensure…
New parking corrals for shared active transportation vehicles (SATV), like e-scooters, are being installed in the downtown Tempe area. These…
The concrete-island-protected bike lanes on Oakland’s Telegraph corridor in the KONO district are all but completed. This controversial project was nearly…
In the past few years, micromobility has become a deeply crowded segment, with innovative new electric vehicles on two, three,…
Micromobility can be a tool for economic mobility — but only if it’s done right.
The key to shared e-scooters and e-bikes could be incorporating them into the general planning for public transport.
There’s a new way to commute car-free without pedaling a bike or standing on a scooter. Electric scooter-rental company Lime…
The advent of micro-mobility has revolutionized the way people commute in urban areas. This new mode of transportation, which includes…
Segway-Ninebot is partnering with Drover AI and Luna Systems — two startups that build computer vision technology to detect and correct improper electric scooter…
From partnering with start-ups like Omni to develop wheelchair-accessible e-scooters to collaborating with UCL to create a universal sound for…
Local governments can improve access to jobs by further integrating shared micromobility, such as electric bikes and scooters, into their public transit systems, according…
The e-scooters have tactile signage with raised lettering and a QR code leading to Beam’s 24-hour Report a Beam channels…
In a survey of 2,431 inhabitants from cities in Germany, Portugal and Norway, over half are supportive of replacing car…
The Move PGH pilot project in Pittsburgh has provided some 1 million scooter trips, with about a third of those…
The Move PGH pilot project in Pittsburgh has provided some 1 million scooter trips, with about a third of those…
Downtown Miami is about to see a last-mile delivery experiment replacing trucks with cargo freight bicycles able to carry 500…
It’s been a busy month in the world of mobility and technology: several big transit agencies announcing big plans on…
Amsterdam boasts that it’s the bike capital of the world. Smaller North American cities can learn from their best practices.…
Leaving an electric scooter or city bicycle in areas outside of designated parking zones in Helsinki is now a parking…
It’s been a busy first quarter of 2023, and a lot’s been happening in the world of transit technology news.…
When the first commercial U.S. bike-sharing program launched in 2008, the value proposition was clear. Putting more bikes on the…
Five of the world’s leading operators of e-scooters and e-bikes have worked together to produce a list of ten recommendations…
Battery-boosted three-wheelers are increasingly popular with older riders. But safety fears and the lack of bike-friendly infrastructure could hold them back. E-bikes…
Bolt’s reckless rider score will assess a rider’s behaviour at the end of each ride and will implement a three-step…
A local university, city transit agency, community-based organization, and for-profit mobility company unite to solve first/last mile challenges in a…
In a bid to tame sidewalk clutter and boost efficiency, the micromobility company is rolling out a network of docking stations…
To celebrate the launch of DC’s 2023 shared micromobility permit, we partnered with the District Department of Transportation to launch DC’s Public…
The role of micromobility is not discussed much in climate action plans, but that could be improved going forward, one Shared-Use…
Washington launched an online dashboard that allows the public to view real-time information about where and when shared electric scooters…
When corporate owners ditched New Orleans’s bike share, the community stepped up to rebuild it with a focus on equity.…
When corporate owners ditched New Orleans’s bike share, the community stepped up to rebuild it with a focus on equity.…
More than 4 years after the first electric scooter-sharing service arrived in Paris, locals will vote in April on whether…
A recently posted video shows a modified e-bike, capable of hitting 75mph, driven on the street, showing the future of…
The Netherlands is known internationally for its bicycle culture. Now it’s also home to another, more broadly accessible form of…
Taking a shared bike or scooter to work or school could increase access to economic opportunity — but what if…
2022 is nearly out the door, leaving some clear trends in the realm of mobility technology. Demand for all types…
Executives at shared e-bike and e-scooter companies have blamed recession fears, inflation, a lack of venture capital funding, and tightening…
There is a lot to be said in favor of electric bikes, and micromobility at large. According to a study involving…
Micromobility company, Lime (Website), has just shared that it has partnered with Propel (Website) to help more people to afford their electric vehicle rentals.…
Successful micromobility programs require long-term relationships, integration with public transit and limited service operators, said panelists during a webinar last week hosted…
Lyft announced its decision to remove its shared bicycles and scooters from the Los Angeles region, saying its operations were…
Voi Technology has partnered with WMG and Bumblebee Power to trial the use of wireless e-scooter charging at the University…
The business of micromobility could be the next in line to suffer from the latest changes in the macroeconomic backdrop…
The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), in partnership with Pedal Movement,…
The number of scooter-related emergency room visits grew nearly 450% in the U.S. between 2017 and 2021, according to the…
A study published last week in the scientific journal Nature Energy studied the effects of traffic and travel time in a city…
The California Legislature’s recent passing of A.B. 371, the so-called “Kill Bike-share Bill,” is the most recent wound in the slow…
Safety-focused AV Startup Argo AI and FedEx robot delivery program shut down, tele-operated cars may come to Las Vegas, electric…
MobilityData, a nonprofit aiming to ease travel through shared data and information, will permanently oversee the General Bikeshare Feed Specification,…
A 12-month pilot project in Barcelona is using energy recovered from metro trains braking to charge personal e-scooters. The idea…
MaaS Global has a cash crunch, the need for AV driving tests, rescuing the grid with EVs, and the debut…
Veo, which touts itself as the first profitable shared micromobility company, has just unveiled its latest light electric vehicle known…
On-demand ride-sharing services, vans and shuttle buses have spread to at least 100 U.S. cities, providing flexibility and reducing car…
Nonprofit Shared Mobility is helping community groups set up e-bike libraries in low-income neighborhoods, where residents can check out an…
Many shared mobility programs appeared to try to address equity issues, but few measured outcomes, according to a federally backed…
Against treating AV development as a “race”, intercity electric buses, equity in digital ticketing, and the hope of an end…
Shared micro-mobility operators have been eager to expand their operations, paying little attention to developing a sustainable business model. However,…
Imagine you’re out walking on a shared-use path in your city, and these vehicles blast through your periphery at 30…
Proposed changes to NTD reporting, electric cars hit a “tipping point”, the equity of cashless fare systems, and understanding the…
The Association of Consumer Support Organisations (ACSO) has called for e-scooters to be legalised so that an insurance framework can…
Colorado is collecting and analyzing data on several e-bike pilot programs, gaining insights into the fastest-growing form of electric vehicle…
Shared micromobility giant Lime is finally bringing on some of its own city-appeasing advanced rider assistance system (ARAS) technology. At…
When we think of the term “electric vehicles,” we generally conjure up mental images of Teslas or other headline-grabbing electric…
Ever wondered what would happen if bicycles could think for themselves? Well, this week, MIT researchers released a paper exploring the potential…
It’s been a busy month in the world of mobility technology news: Elon Musk using AVs as “drama”, “Autono-MaaS”, Amazon…
TIER’s latest research reveals that millions of people over-65 are embracing e-bikes and e-scooters as they look for ways to…
We see partnerships with micro-mobility providers such as Bird as opportunities to expand our role from solely a transit service provider to…
Hard times and “fake” financials for Uber and Lyft, a new universal mobility pilot in L.A., AV buses will still…
For decades, infrastructure projects in Richmond have prioritized cars over other forms of transportation. Monday night, City Council approved guidelines…
Regional government organizations in Sacramento and Denver have taken an oversight and data collection role in micromobility operations, showing that…
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, and the University of St. Gallen announced today…
More equitable bus lanes through technology, electric bus production delays, ‘liar, liar, battery supplier’, where on earth is all that…
A report highlights successful strategies for making public transit and micromobility options work together to support more multimodal trips.
Rotterdam-based Flytz, a startup born from a social initiative for and by students, has announced the launch of a pilot to…
Under New York’s e-scooter pilot program, Bird is providing a first-of-its-kind motorized attachment free to individuals who use wheelchairs.
Under New York’s e-scooter pilot program, Bird is providing a first-of-its-kind motorized attachment free to individuals who use wheelchairs.
Personal vehicles such as bicycles, e-bikes, e-scooters, and motorcycles have skyrocketed in popularity in the US over the last few…
A view northwest on Garrison Avenue, the main arterial street of downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas. A series of National Science…
Tier Mobility, the Berlin-based micromobility operator that has been steadily taking over Europe, is making a sweeping entry into North…
Passenger hyperloop is dead, glorified golf carts for all, and transit agencies buy automated buses. Just a few of the…
Micromobility analyst Horace Dediu tells us how the new transport tech stack will change cities.
Transportation robotics company Superpedestrian announced last week it had closed a $125 million funding round to expand its scooter safety technology. The…
Hello to 2022, and goodbye to two self-driving shuttle makers. Also GM edges closer to making AVs, there aren’t nearly…
“Operating e-scooters and e-bikes seems climate-friendly at first glance because they do not use internal combustion engines. But in terms…
As we bid farewell (or good riddance, as the case may be) to 2021, here are some news highlights for…
Most people who use shared e-scooters report higher levels of emotional well-being after a ride.
Ride-sharing starts to return, Apple and the USPS get more involved in automated vehicles, and more in a recurring series…
News of large-scale investments in zero-emission transit keeps rolling in. Meanwhile, scrutiny of Uber, Lyft, and Tesla’s AV features continues.…
Batteries are in many of the headlines this month — new technologies, factories, supply chains, standards, and recycling methods. TNCs…
Here’s what the latest data show: There were more than 190,000 emergency room (ED) visits due to all micromobility products…
An e-scooter is parked in a dockless mobility corral in Pittsburgh, PA By integrating a variety of mobility services into…
Have more mobility news that we should be reading and sharing? Let us know! Reach out to Sage Kashner (kashner@ctaa.org).
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