Shuttles Help Fill The Commute Gap Between Train Stations, Workplaces
By Bob Seay
Commuting these days isn't what it used to be. Instead of trying to draw workers into Boston, some Massachusetts businesses are often trying to get their most coveted employees to leave the...
CANADIAN SHARED MOBILITY
CAR SHARE MARKET IN CANADA
As of January, 2018, Canada had 20 car sharing services in operation with more than 336,000 members and 5,200 vehicles. In 2017, there were 3,300 car-sharing vehicles operating in the city of Vancouver alone, dubbed the...
Five Promises of Micromobility
Posted by florentcrivello
Disclaimer: I’m a product manager at Uber. This piece represents my views only, and not those of people working on behalf of Uber.
A wave of electric scooters and bikes has been taking...
New ride sharing algorithm promises better deal for riders and drivers
By Aditi Jain
Ride sharing on app-based taxi services is catching up. Now researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi have developed an algorithm that can guide taxi drivers to take a route where...
Future of mobility
BY EVAN WILLIAMS
IMAGINE A FUTURE IN WHICH IT IS MORE convenient and less costly to own a subscription to a ride-share service not unlike Uber or Lyft to get around, rather than owning a...
Seattle’s ‘microtransit’ experiment drives people to light rail. Is it working?
By Josh Cohen
If you’ve ridden light rail in the Rainier Valley in the past few months you’ve no doubt seen them: black vans with a blue Seattle skyline painted on the sides.
Called Via to Transit,...
Uber/Lyft Responsible For A Large Share of Traffic
By Aaron Short
Uber and Lyft have finally come clean: Their vehicles are causing a big share of the congestion in several American cities.
A new study jointly commissioned by the two app-based cab companies found that they have a massive...
With new mobility options, Detroit goes multimodal
By David Sands
It's a chilly Thursday night in late January, and Detroiter Tamara Ballinger is waiting for a bus at DDOT's Rosa Parks Transit Center. The 21-year-old college student and fast food worker is...
Mobility on demand market to surpass usd 200 billion by 2024
Global Mobility on Demand Market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $100 billion to over $200 billion by 2024; according to a new research report by Global Market...
Rental car companies need to evolve now, or they will die
By Rob Cosentino
There’s a scene in the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles where Steve Martin’s character, Neal, is dropped off in the middle of a rental car lot, looking for a car that isn’t there.
By the...
