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Automobile Supremecy in the U.S.--What It Is
Public policy worships the automobile — and we pay the price

Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It

"The current transportation system is dominated by cars. It has a negative impact on health, environment, space and safety."

Lesson From The A380 And California HSR: Smaller Is Better In Transportation

M ARKE TIN G IN AN A U TOM OBIL E DEPENDENT S O CIE TY: AN AN AL YSIS OF CON SU MER -ORIENTED, IND U STR Y- PR OD UC ED AD VER TIS IN G M ATERI AL

The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach

Safety & Health
Guest Commentary: Denver’s streets are for people, not cars

Why Speed Kills Cities]

Why cities with high bicycling rates are safer for all road users

[https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article236908953.html?utm_source=Sightline%20Institute&utm_medium=web-email&utm_campaign=Sightline%20News%20Selections Bike riders and pedestrians are dying. It’s drawing rare bipartisan focus in Washington, D.C. ]

Car crashes and guns are leading causes of deaths of U.S. kids, study finds

[https://www.curbed.com/2020/1/3/21048066/oslo-vision-zero-pedestrian-cyclist-deaths Oslo saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019. Here’s how the city did it.]

NHTSA keeps blaming victims instead of regulating SUVs and pickups

Dangerous By Design 2019

NHTSA FATALITY ANALYSIS REPORTING SYSTEM (FARS) ENCYCLOPEDIA

U.S. kids die from traffic fatalities at twice the rate of other wealthy nations

Pounds That Kill

Estimated car cost as a predictor of driver yielding behaviors for pedestrians

Orwell

Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State: 2019 Preliminary Data

The Government Must Decide If It Wants Pedestrians to Die or Not (on GAO report)

Lawrence Frank, a transportation and public health expert at the University of British Columbia

Pollution
Air pollution from brake dust may be as harmful as diesel exhaust on immune cells – new study

Database of Road Transportation Emissions

Understanding Microplastic Levels, Pathways, and Transport in the San Francisco Bay Region

Loss of life expectancy from air pollution compared to other risk factors: a worldwide perspective

The world is facing an air pollution pandemic

Congestion
INRIX 2019 Global Traffic Scorecard

Global
New Global Roadmap of Action to Guide the Future of Mobility

The first and last mile — the key to sustainable urban transport

The COVID-19 outbreak and implications to sustainable urban mobility – some observations

Federal Legislation
America's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019

Webinar recap, Complete Streets federal policy update

Planning Approaches
LA Metro Has An Innovation 'SWAT Team' And They're Fighting For The Future

ethics, equity, and empathy

[https://sustain.org/report-equity-and-smart-mobility/ Smart mobility will reduce emissions and improve lives. But, will everyone benefit?]

Zero Emissions 2028 Roadmap Version 2.0

Minneapolis Transportation Action Plan

Future of Mobility: Urban Strategy (UK)

"Future Mobility Zones . . . will demonstrate a range of new mobility services, modes and models. They will focus on significantly improving mobility for consumers and providing an exportable template to allow successful initiatives to be replicated in other areas."

Guidelines for City Mobility (World Economic Forum)

A clearinghouse of shared mobility knowledge (includes plans for Hawaii, Twin Cities, L.A. County)

Pedestrians
improve pedestrian safety with extended curbs (DC)

As traffic fatalities rise in NYC, safe streets advocates demand action (NYC)

Denver’s New Blueprint for Growth Puts Peds First, But Every Street Won’t Be “Complete”

Kansas City Unveils a Streets Plan That Puts Walking First

Detroit active streets?

Houston?

Transit
Sound Transit approves $60M for Pierce Transit BRT

The Bus Rapid Transit Standard

The Joy of Public Transit

tactical transit

Kansas City becomes first major American city with universal fare-free public transit

Luxembourg is first country to make all public transport free

Rose Lane Project: Implementing Transit Priority Projects in Portland "The Rose Lane Project is a city-wide initiative exploring how to get buses and streetcars out of traffic, helping more Portlanders get where they need to go. We will do this by making transit more reliable, quicker, and more attractive."

Why the US Sucks at Building Public Transit

Facilitating Mode Switching
E-Bike Vouchers Bill Signed by Governor Newsom

"Danes already face steep taxes intended to encourage green-friendly choices: Car buyers pay an 85% tax on the first $27,500 of any car purchase. Above that price, the tax rises to 150%. That's actually less than the tax used to be, and the new Danish leaders are considering raising it again."

Congestion Pricing
National League of Cities: Cities Should Consider Congestion Pricing

Seattle Congestion Pricing Study

Fair and EfficientCongestion Pricing for Downtown Seattle

'Free roads are not really free': Can cities make congestion pricing equitable?

San Fran

An Open Letter To C40 Mayors: How Road Pricing Can Change Your Cities

Lessons Learned From International Experience in Congestion Pricing

ROAD PRICING IN LONDON, STOCKHOLM AND SINGAPORE A WAY FORWARD FOR NEW YORK CITY

LA also considering, London, Stockholm, Milan already have

dc study due in july of 2020

SHIFTING GEARS CLIMATE SOLUTIONS FOR TRANSPORTATION IN CITIES Metro Vancouver case study

Congestion Pricing in the United States

Free transit
Free Bus Rides in Salt Lake City Might Not Be So Far-Fetched

Changes to Urban Form
6 Road Design Changes That Can Save Lives

NACTO Announces Partnership with Five Cities to Rapidly Design and Build Low-Carbon Transportation Projects by 2020 ("to accelerate the implementation of high-quality bike and transit corridors by the end of 2020")

How Some Groups Use Street Story to Improve Their Communities

Safe Lanes, a community-built application, was used to make the case to a UCSF facilities manager about the need for new loading zones and later used to justify the change to the SFMTA Board

Car-free Zones
Cars No Longer Welcome on Busiest Stretch of Manhattan's 14th Street

American cities need to phase out cars

Market Street

bms

Toronto

New York 14th Street busway

Seattle Third Avenue between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m

Should cars be banned on Broadway in downtown L.A.?

End of road for private cars in central London, says TfL chief

Micromobility? Lanes
Transit advocates will produce ‘master plan’ for NYC’s bike lanes

Seattle City Council approves new bike-lane requirements, calls for more funding

Why cities with high bicycling rates are safer for all road users

Corvallis installs buffered bike lanes

Catalogue of PROTECTED BIKE LANES

INVENTORY OF PROTECTED BIKE LANES


 * 1) Sevilla spent about €30M to build 80 kilometers of separated bicycle infrastructure in only 18 months, and the share of trips made by bicycle in that city rose from 0.5% to over 10% (close to 100K trips per day).

Atlanta Moves to Make Deadly Streets Safer

DOTI Speeds Up Implementation of its Bicycle Program With Bike Lane Buildout

Vancouver (Washington) council says yes to protected bike lanes, no to 393 parking spaces

Curb
Curbing roadside chaos Illustration of a curb congested with cars, a bike, a scooter, a traffic cone, and a no parking sign

Parking
Berlin first to abolish minimums in Europe, followed by Hamburg Mexico City--basically converted minimums to maximums

[https://noparkinghere.com/ Let's build houses for people, not cars. (LA)]

Mexico City abolished minimums?

[https://www.reinventingparking.org/2019/12/learn-from-japan.html Learn from Japan! ]

If you want to live in this new Arizona neighborhood, you can’t own a car

DOWNTOWN AUSTIN PARKING STRATEGY

Pricing the Curb (Shoup) "Baltimore, Md.; Boston, Mass.; Los Angeles, Calif.; San Francisco, Calif.; Seat-tle, Wash.; Washington, D.C.; and several other cities have begun to price parking by demand" "Austin, Texas; Boston, Mass.; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, Calif.; Mexico City, Mexico; Pasadena, Calif.; San Diego, Calif.; and several other cities have established parking benefit districts."

New Mobility
"Lime, which launched its scooter operation in California, now does more business in Europe than in the U.S., primarily because European officials are pursuing policies to restrict car use"

With micromobility, a 35-40 minute bus ride becomes a 9 minute scooter ride.

Taxonomy and Classification of Powered Micromobility Vehicles

NUMO new mobility atlas

NUMO new mobility atlas

General
Mobility Data: How Your Travel Patterns Could Inform Policy

Urgent Privacy Concerns With City’s Decision To Collect Traveler Mobility Location Information

Mobility Data Sharing and Cities

Micro
Spin launches mobility data fellowship for nonprofits

Ride Report raises $10 million to help cities and operators manage shared bikes and scooters

New startup aims to bring controversial scooter tracking system to more cities

What’s new in GBFS v2.0

TNC
Bill S.2289 (proposed by Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker ~ July 10, 2019)

California will require Uber and Lyft to offer more electric cars to ridehail customers

Maas
INIT Launches Regional Mobility Platform in Germany

Car Sharing
Portland Mobility Group Wins DOE Grant for Rural EV Carsharing Pilot

How to Move More People with Fewer Vehicles
 * "the real key to traffic and pollution reduction comes from sharing. We don’t have to wait for the widespread adoption of electric and/or autonomous vehicles to achieve significant efficiency gains that remove cars and their emissions from city streets. Multiple studies have found that shared autonomous vehicles can dramatically improve traffic. [cites three studies]"
 * "Managing urban congestion and mobility comes down to the matter of managing space. Cities are characterized by defined and restricted residential, commercial, and transportation spaces. Private autos are the most inefficient use of transportation space, and mass transit represents the most efficient use of transportation space. Getting more people out of private cars, and into shared feeder routes to and from mass transit modes is the most promising way to reduce auto traffic."

AVs
Two projects further strengthen bonds between microtransit and autonomous vehicles

Driverless shuttles hit the streets of Brooklyn, NY

Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism: Second Edition

Autonomous vehicles: A PotentiAl gAme chAnger  for urbAn mobility

Autonomous vehicle roams campus as part of driverless shuttle research

Automated Vehicle Principles for Healthy and Sustainable Communities

Case Study: Little Roady Autonomous Shuttle Pilot, Providence, Rhode Island

Robotic Research receives approval from MDDOT to operate autonomous shuttle

Self-Driving Shuttle Starts Service In Linden This Month

UPS In Autonomous Vehicle Pilot with Waymo in Phoenix

This Vehicle Has No Side-View Mirrors—and It's Legal

JTA, FSCJ agree on autonomous vehicle program expansion

fees/taxes
House passes $612M transportation funding bill: Ride-hailing services, gas, millionaire-companies would get taxed (Mass.) Estimated TNC Share of VMT in Six US Metropolitan Regions (Revision 1)

Lyft confirms plan to launch ride-hailing service in Vancouver

NYC extends cap on Uber, for-hire vehicles and adds a ‘cruising cap’

TNCs & C ongestion

BC regs

Mayor Durkan proposes 51-cent tax on Uber, Lyft rides in Seattle to fund streetcar, affordable housing

Uber and Lyft are the ‘biggest contributors’ to San Francisco’s traffic congestion, study says

California first state to regulate GHGs of ridesharing companies

Seattle City Council OKs new 57-cent tax on Uber, Lyft rides

61% of total miles ride-hail vehicles traveled without a passenger in the car in 2018, according to an estimate released by the California Air Resources Board last month. The report also estimated that the ride-hail fleet—Uber, Lyft and others—emitted 50 percent more CO2 than the statewide vehicle fleet average, even though the cars are generally newer, include fewer light trucks and are more fuel efficient than those in the statewide fleet.

Chicago tax

Ride-Hailing's Climate Risks (UCC) Grist coverage

The Cost of Convenience: Ridehailing and Traffic Fatalities

Delivery
News UPS and PSU partner to launch new eBike delivery service

Postmates expects to land first-ever permit to test sidewalk delivery robots in San Francisco

Delivery Robots Cleared To Drive On Washington Sidewalks

UPS In Autonomous Vehicle Pilot with Waymo in Phoenix

This Vehicle Has No Side-View Mirrors—and It's Legal

Miami pilots e-cargo bikes to reduce congestion, pollution

Micromobility
"The question cities need to ask is, 'How can we approach new technology so that it serves larger goals?' Starting from that vantage point, it makes sense for Chicago to seriously explore how very small vehicles generally can reduce congestion, lower trips' environmental costs, improve mobility, and better people's quality of life."​ "Chicago's ability to carry out its e-scooter program will also depend on 'unfettered access to the data it needs,'" the report reads. "'"San Francisco has been very intentional about making sure scooters are affordable and accessible. Los Angeles has been a leader on data.'" Micromobility could replace 51% of Chicago car trips: report Vroom or Bust? Towards a Chicago E-Scooter Strategy in 2020 and Beyond

[https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/first-bikes-then-scooters-now-mopeds-next-up-trikes-and-e-cargo-bikes/2019/08/10/cec24878-b7ab-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html#comments-wrapper First bikes, then scooters, now mopeds. Next up: Trikes and e-cargo bikes.]

Micromobility Potential in the US, UK and Germany: shared bikes and scooters could replace nearly: 50% of short-distance (0-3 miles) in vehicle trips in the U.S.

The Electric Assist: Leveraging E-bikes and E-scooters for More Livable Cities

12 KPIs to Evaluate Success of Urban Micro-mobility Programs

Charlotte takes e-scooter data for a test ride pilots in Charlotte, Detroit, and Omaha end at the end of March, 2020

Impeding access: The frequency and characteristics of improper scooter, bike, and car parking

Fighting Smog With Scooters: Plume Labs And Bird Pair Up To Curb Pollution In Paris

scooter/bike
[https://sharedusemobilitycenter.org/scooters-scooters-everywhere-but-what-about-the-bikes-five-trends-framing-the-future-of-micromobility/ Scooters, scooters, everywhere. But what about the bikes? Five trends framing the future of micromobility]

Electric scooters would beat cars on up to 70 per cent of city centre journeys, study reveals

More dockless scooters and bikes, but fewer dockless companies would operate in DC under a new DDOT plan

DC officials announce 100 new bike and scooter parking zones

Cuomo details plan for legalizing e-bikes, e-scooters in New York

New York finally legalizes electric bikes and scooters

just scooter
cnn

Montréal says no to kick-scooters

Atlanta nighttime ban

[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2da8/pdf Are e-scooters polluters? The environmental impacts of shared dockless electric scooters]

Lime Launches E-Bikes In Warsaw To Advance Clean Scooter Operations

China's Ninebot unveils scooters that drive themselves to charging stations

E-scooter pilot project to launch in Toronto, but major hurdles remain

Seattle starts the electric scooter process

[https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2019/08/22/seattle-starts-planning-for-shared-scooters-like-for-real-this-time/ Seattle starts planning for shared scooters. Like, for real this time.]

King County Council Flirts with Year-Long Scooter Pilot for White Center

UO alumni’s mid-century modern parking spot design takes them to Denver finals

[https://urbanismnext.uoregon.edu/2019/08/14/how-are-cities-regulating-e-scooters-a-look-at-santa-monica-san-francisco-and-portland/ How are Cities Regulating E-scooters? A look at Santa Monica, San Francisco, and Portland]

Just How Environmentally Friendly Are All Those Scooters? (mentions lower carbon charging options)

more than a third of scooter trips begin or end at a transit stop (SF)

34 percent of e-scooter rides replaced an automobile trip (Portland)

Scooters Quenching Thirst in Chicago’s Transit Deserts

[https://thecityfix.com/blog/cities-managing-disruption-5-ways-brazilian-cities-regulating-electric-scooters-guillermo-petzhold-francisco-minella-pasqual/ How Are Cities Managing Disruption? 5 Ways Brazilian Cities Are Regulating Electric Scooters]

Spin Becomes DC’s First to Dock Its Dockless Scooters

E-scooters and dockless e-bikes evaluation complete: What did we learn from Arlington County’s pilot?

Gov. Tony Evers signed into law a bill authorizing dockless motorized scooters on Wisconsin roads; Milwaukee scooter pilot

Electric scooter riders as safe as cyclists on the road – and drivers the danger, says new report 10 recommendations

Bird outlines contribution to mandatory scooter parking in Paris

The Frenzied Era of E-Scooters Is Over

Spin deploys first public charging hubs in Phoenix (previously experimented with in Washington, DC and Ann Arbor, MI in pilot programs on private property)

Lime launches geofencing safety information technology

just bike
MoGo bike share adds 50 e-bikes to fleet

[https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/07/08/tally-ho-london-breaks-its-cycling-record/ Tally Ho! London Breaks its Cycling Record]

10,500 publicly-controlled electric-assist bikes

Bike share use steady with fewer bikes and higher prices, but bike parking remains a problem

The increase in bicycling will double the number of regular bicycle users in many major cities around the world where cycling to work is still uncommon.

Electric bike-share system en route for SMART stops

Wheels is deploying e-bikes with self-cleaning handlebars and brake levers

Intercity: rail
Cascadia High-Speed Rail: Climate Implications Makes Business Case Even Stronger