Growing up in Los Angeles, there was no greater rite of passage than getting a drivers license and having “freedom” – usually, at 8am on your 16th birthday. The notion of cars representing the American Dream (the bigger the better!) […]
The United Kingdom has long been a leader in transportation, and the current crisis is underscoring the country’s strong commitment to innovative mobility, across both the public and private sectors. From greater London’s huge new Crossrail, to open streets and […]
COVID-19 has claimed its first official EV casualty – the planned all-electric SUV collaboration between Lincoln and Rivian (which have also pushed back production of their first two vehicles to early 2021, driven in part by the pandemic). GM has also delayed a […]
It’s a stunning irony that our dense and dynamic downtowns, so revered as centers of culture, ingenuity and wealth creation have generated the perfect conditions for the spread of a deadly respiratory virus. As we are learning on a near […]
On July 27, 2019, 34-year-old Amber Ford, a nurse and mother of two young children, was out on a date with her husband in midtown Atlanta, Georgia. The two were riding shared electric scooters back to their hotel when Amber […]
Habidatum just launched their Mobility Monitor data portal. In an exclusive for CoMotion NEWS, Habidatum looks at how measuring dwell-time shifts can explain divergent policy responses and outcomes in response to COVID-19. Alongside the entire global economy, $16 trillion in […]
Greg Shill, professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, discusses how micromobility is challenging a legal paradigm that favors cars. Law and Demand for Change Beyond the Pandemic For a variety of reasons, car ownership no longer enjoys […]
Words like “sustainability” or “circular economy” may be easy to define… but they are extremely difficult to implement in ways which lead to a true win-win situation for all stakeholders. The difficulty is that today our products and supply chains […]
While the coronavirus pandemic has changed the face of transportation in the short term, micromobility will still be a viable option once life in cities returns to a more familiar form. While shared scooters may not be lining the streets […]
In recent years, the media has kept a spotlight on advancements in autonomous cars and trucks, thanks to automakers’ and tech companies’ high-profile investments in snazzy vehicles and a myriad of on- and off-road experiments in cities across the country. […]
