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1 When docked bikeshare appeared a decade ago, few could have imagined the explosive evolution of small, low-speed mobility into the variety of devices, business models, and operational arrangements that characterize the sector now known as "micromobility." This growth has been accelerated by infusions of private capital, popular enthusiasm for the devices, and economies of scale for the vehicles and technologies that underpin micromobility services. This report combines survey and trip data with operational lessons from agencies and cities that are working to maximize the public benefit of the expanding micromobility market.
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2 Transit and Micromobility pandemic's direct effects subside, but that these outcomes are unknowable while we are still in the middle of the crisis. Defining Shared Micromobility The term "micromobility" can encompass a broad variety of small, low-speed vehicles intended for personal transportation in urban areas.
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Summary 3 (SUMC) and New Urban Mobility Alliance (NUMO)
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4 Transit and Micromobility subsidize trips that provide first- and last-mile access, a transit agency would either need a fully integrated payment system (subsidizing only those trips that take place both on transit and via micromobility) or access to trip data (subsidizing trips that definitively start or end within a specified geofenced area of transit service)
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Summary 5 a nearly infinite number of locations -- the growth of dockless micromobility heightens regulating agencies' responsibility to manage the vehicles' use in streets, on sidewalks, and in other public rights-of-way. Growth in transportation options has long been understood as a remedy for car reliance and a complement to transit ridership.
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6 Transit and Micromobility The survey also examined how and why people use scooters. The responses were weighted by frequency of use: • Trips on public transit represented 0.5%–10% of trips replaced by scooters.
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Summary 7 lines. Cleveland's three BRT lines, with many stops throughout the dense urban core, had much greater association, with 83% of scooter trips starting or ending within 1⁄4 mile of a stop, and 68% within 1⁄8 mile.
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8 Transit and Micromobility Agency–Micromobility Partnership Approaches As the micromobility marketplace continues to take shape, new types of collaboration between cities, transit agencies, and private operators are emerging to align mobility goals, regulate sensibly, and improve transit access. City and transit agency partnership roles depend on market and transit system characteristics.
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Summary 9 goals, enable more effective planning. While this is a well-established approach in other areas of mutual city/transit agency interest, fewer examples of this type of collaboration exist for micromobility.
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