A number of cities throughout the US are adding protected bike lanes as part of their mobility plans. Sacramento, CA recently announced that it will use a $5 million grant from the California Transportation Commission Read More
The city of Chicago, IL has launched the first phase of the Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) grant program. ETOD – a part of a new Department of Planning and Development (DPD) universal application process for Read More
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) in England has invested 145,000 GBP (~US$175,000) to establish ‘bike libraries’ for local communities.It’s hoped that this project will encourage more people to take advantage of the new cycling routes Read More
In January of 2022, The New York Clean Transportation Prizes program awarded a total of US$3 million to 17 finalists. Now, the ten finalists have been awarded a total of $85 million. The New York Read More
The Action Network recently released The Shared Mobility 2030 Action Agenda – an initiative with the aim of promoting shared mobility. The members of The Action Network – which include public, private, and non-profit organizations Read More
The Pontoise-Cormeilles airfield just outside of Paris, France now has Europe’s first fully integrated vertiport terminal for the urban air mobility (UAM) industry. Named the Re.Invent Air Mobility testbed, it will enable a variety of Read More
The city of Barcelona, Spain has introduced an initiative which aims to facilitate the use of taxis and reduce waiting times. It has integrated taxis into its AMB Mobility mobile app, which gathers all the Read More
Washington D.C.’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) and the Southwest Business Improvement District (SWBID) have formed a public-private partnership in order to create a Mobility Innovation District (MID). The Read More
The California Energy Commission (CEC) is funding a vehicle-to-building (V2B) resilience hub in Oakland that is designed to demonstrate the value of bidirectional electric vehicle charging for providing back-up power. V2B Oakland will act as Read More
The City Council of Glasgow, Scotland has installed cycle-activated electronic signals on its road network, with the goal of reducing incidents of conflict between vehicles and cyclists. “We want people to think of cycling as Read More
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