Are you ready for our event series?
Are you ready for our event series?
Welcome to our Summer Newsletter!
Welcome to our Summer Newsletter! It's been a quarter full of activities and exciting transitions for Urban Movement Labs. Last July, we held a retreat with our board and staff members to discuss the organization's goals for facilitating transportation technologies and UML's commitment to safe, sustainable, and equitable new mobility. This opportunity to come together, reflect on our first years as an organization, and think critically about how our next steps will strengthen UML's ability to realize our commitment to a first-community approach to incorporating mobility technology to address the challenges of today.
Humans of New Mobility
Our event series "Humans of New Mobility" is coming this fall! In collaboration with Siemens, we are organizing interactive workshops to discuss the future of transportation in LA and beyond. Our first event will be about Electric & Shared Mobility. We have already secured a panel of rockstars in the new mobility space. Join us here! And check out the details of our partnership with Siemens here.
UML at MOVE London and ITS California
UML participated at MOVE London last June and ITS California last May. At MOVE London, we presented UML's Advanced Air Mobility plans for the City of Los Angeles. These three blog posts, published before this event, summarize our progress:
How Might Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Impact City Operations?
What is the Regulatory Role of a City when it Comes to Urban Air Mobility (UAM)?
At ITS America, we presented our exciting pilot projects to manage the chaotic curb and create a digital ecosystem at the panel "Get the #!&! Off of My Curb!" Check out our report Digitizing the Curb.
UML Innovating Pasadena
Urban Movement Labs’ Director, Strategy & Development, Francis Pollara, presented UML’s work regulating transportation technologies at a meet-up by Innovate Pasadena. Check out the recording here.
Clint Harper at CAMI AAM 101 and at the Electric Aircraft Symposium
Our Urban Air Mobility Fellow, Clint Harper, continued UML’s outreach strategies to communicate our work on planning Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). This time, Clint traveled to San Francisco and participated in the AAM 101 event, an introduction to AAM for state and local decision-makers. Then, Clint was a speaker at the Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Here, experts discussed the latest in electric aircraft, propulsion systems, energy sources, certification, regional and urban use cases, and the current market opportunities — for electric vertical/short/conventional takeoff and landing (eVTOL / eSTOL /eCTOL) aircraft.
Urban Movement Labs Announces Partnership with South Koreas’ Institute of Aerospace Industry-Academia to Collaborate on Advanced Air Mobility Research
Urban Movement Labs Announces Partnership with South Korea’s Institute of Aerospace Industry-Academia to Collaborate on Advanced Air Mobility Research. The collaboration will focus on technical aspects of AAM integration that address shared characteristics between the Los Angeles and Incheon regions.
What We're Attending
Event: Designing Cities 2022: Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville [Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville]
Organizer: National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
Date: September 7-10, 2022
Details: This will be our first in-person gathering since 2019 in Toronto! NACTO is grateful to the host cities, Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, for providing a backdrop of collaboration, innovation, and relentless work toward creating seamless transportation options for their communities.
Event: ITS World Congress [Los Angeles]
Organizer: ITS America Events
Date: September 18 – 22
Details: Connect with experts from leading companies and see the latest mobility trends and innovative solutions with more than 300 exhibiting companies and live demonstrations.
Event: CicLAvia–Heart of LA [Los Angeles]
Organizer: CicLAvia
Date: October 09, 2022
Details: CicLAvia is opening up streets in downtown Los Angeles so you can jog, ride, bike, skate, run, walk, skateboard, spectate, and enjoy the route however you want. Our routes are welcoming to people of all ages and abilities! This CicLAvia is presented by Metro.
Event: CoMotion LA [Los Angeles]
Organizer: CoMotion
Date: November 15 - 17, 2022
Details: Meet the world’s most influential and innovative companies and municipalities pushing the boundaries of mobility. Three days of immersive and interactive talks, pitches, demos, & workshops offer a path forward for cities and mobility systems as we enter a more impactful phase of the Mobility Revolution.
What We Are Reading?
Electric cars don't need better batteries. America needs better-charging networks [CNN Business]. The problem really isn't range anxiety. It's anxiety around finding convenient and working chargers on America's still-challenged charging networks.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is getting a more pedestrian-friendly makeover [Time Out]. The first step in Hollywood Boulevard's transformation will begin in the summer of 2023.
Ohio Publishes Nation's First Advanced Air Mobility Framework [The Business Journal]. The Ohio Department of Transportation has released the nation's first advanced air mobility framework through DriveOhio, the department's smart mobility division. This framework will support, and position Ohio for, anticipated advanced aviation growth throughout the state.
Drones bearing parcels deliver big carbon savings [Nature]. Last-mile delivery by a small drone takes much less energy per parcel than delivery by diesel truck.
Colorado public transit agencies are making buses and trains free in August [9 News]. The statewide initiative will see the Regional Transportation District (RTD) join 30 other transit agencies in waiving fares for the month of August.
Diary of a Pandemic Bus Driver [Bloomberg] Amid unmasked riders and simmering tensions, a San Francisco bus operator recounts the personal toll of rolling through the Covid-19 crisis.
Councilmember looks to recreate Barcelona's "superblocks" in Los Angele [Urbanize Los Angeles]. The plan calls for redirecting traffic to convert streets into public spaces.
The E-Bike Tax Credit Is Only Mostly Dead As Supporters Plot Next Steps [The Verge]. A rebate for e-bike purchases was left out of the big climate deal, but it may yet live on.
How Will Road Infrastructure Change In The Next 30 Years? [Governing]. From electrified pavement that can charge vehicles and delivery robots that collect data to flying taxis, transportation experts sound off on what we can expect highways and byways to look like in 2050.
Dangerous By Design 2022 [Smart Growth America] This report follows up on the pedestrian safety crisis in America. Pedestrian fatalities are up 62 percent since they began steadily rising in 2009, following years of improvement.