New transit group wants to steer cities toward better scooter policy
The New Urban Mobility Alliance wants to help cities makes sense of today?s transit technology Ride-hailing, dockless bikes and scooters, and autonomous vehicles have made the transit and transportation landscape difficult to decipher. A new organization seeks to help cities make sense of today?s rapid change, offering a roadmap for changing roadways.
The New Urban Mobility Alliance, or NUMO, which launched this afternoon at an event in Washington, D.C., wants to use this paradigm shift to steer cities towards cleaner, healthier, and more multimodal transportation.
By serving as a clearinghouse for research, the organization, which aims to attract policymakers, the private sector, and researchers, wants to become a trusted voice for actionable information about using new transit options, and steer service providers and startups towards better policy. This group joins a number of other initiatives trying to analyze and make sense of new transit options, including NACTO?s SharedStreets initiative, Transportation for America?s Shared Mobility Playbook, and the Mobility Data Specification in Los Angeles, which is being used to track the city?s growing fleet of dockless scooters and bikes.
Zipcar co-founder and transit innovator Robin Chase, executive chair of the NUMO steering committee, believes there is an opportunity transit advocates need to seize to help dense urban areas transition away from being car-dominated.
?There are a lot of transportation groups, but wh...
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