Dear new mobility enthusiast,
We curate critical news around transportation technology and share them regularly. We focus on new mobility to build safer, more sustainable, and equitable cities. Leave a comment and let us know your opinion or share other things we should be reading. Enjoy!
Integrated Mobility
💸 🚌 New mobility program will make transportation more accessible to South LA residents [ABC 7] Next stop: Universal Basic Mobility! EV car-sharing, electric charging facilities, shuttles, and e-bikes will help residents in South Los Angeles save money and access more destinations.
🚲 🛴 Lyft Multimodal Report [Lyft] The second annual Lyft Multimodal Report highlights shared micromobility trends across race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Watch this video promoting the report featuring Queen’s song “Bicycle Race.”
🚲 🚌 Congestion pricing? Free buses? Monorails? How L.A.’s next mayor could change your commute [L.A. Times] The next Mayor of Los Angeles could radically change mobility. Learn more about their proposals in this article by Rachel Uranga.
EV Infrastructure
🚲⚡ When It Comes to E-Bikes, Seeing Is Believing [Transfers Magazine] E-bikes can be an excellent alternative to driving: Bikeshare can make more people aware of them.
🚗⚡ Auto Manufacturers Incorporating NTSB Recommendation on Electric Vehicles [NTSB] Eight electric vehicle manufacturers have incorporated an NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) recommendation to improve their emergency response guides and include vehicle-specific information for fighting high-voltage lithium-ion battery fires in electric vehicles.
Urban Air Mobility
🚁🏙 The Biggest Problem With Flying Cars Is on the Ground [WSJ] Whether you call them eVTOLs, ‘flying cars’ or air taxis, these all-electric, vertical take-off-and-landing passenger vehicles promise to make air commute a reality—if only their manufacturers can figure out where to land them.
🚁💰 Blade to Acquire Three Urban Air Mobility Companies Creating Largest Helicopter Passenger Service in Europe [Blade] In addition to all flights and aircraft being branded Blade, the transaction enables Blade to create branded passenger terminals at over 10 airports, heliports and vertiports that exist or are under development throughout Europe.
Mobility Safety
🚶♀️🚗 When Cars Kill [The New Yorker] A boy’s death launches a movement to end pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in New York City and beyond.
🚗 📸 Mayor Adams Statement on Agreement to Deliver 24/7/365 Speed Cameras, Safer Streets for New Yorkers [NYC GOV] New York City Mayor Adams released an important statement that could prevent many severe cars crashes in the Big Apple. Besides expanding the speed cameras program, the City will invest a historic $900 million in street safety and redesigning 1,000 intersections.
🚶♀️♿ In Praise of the Humble Sidewalk [APA] Learn why the humble sidewalk is one of the best investments a community can make — and what we need to do to make them work for everyone. This article by Steve Wright compiles the opinion of nine walkability experts.