It’s important to think about the city’s policy goals… If the goal is to reduce vehicle miles traveled, does banning dockless vehicles for however long meet those goals? This is something we can collect data on as we investigate, and I would approach it from that perspective.
Despite the shuttering of Ford’s microtransit arm, efficient and on-demand shuttles are here to stay — they just have to find their path. Eno’s Microtransit paper is cited.
Angie Schmitt of Streetsblog makes the case that microtransit “hasn’t lived up to the hype.” She cites Eno’s report, “UpRouted: Exploring Microtransit in the United States” which found that Santa Clara Valley’s microtransit experiment saw…
In the United States, public transportation agencies are experimenting with on-demand, shared, and dynamic models to augment traditional fixed-route bus and train services. These services—referred to as microtransit— are enabled by technology similar to the…
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