More Micromobility Resources
Chicago, Illinois Uses Regulatory Approaches to Improve E-Scooter Equity
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
A separate case study in Chicago, IL, assessed how e-scooters could enhance equitable access, reduce congestion, and lower emissions, leading to expanded pilot programs with regulatory measures and community input.
Read More >Shared Micromobility Pilot Promotes Low-Income Access in Fort Smith, Arkansas
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Reports on a bikeshare pilot in Fort Smith, AR, aimed at developing a long-term pricing strategy, securing funding, and effectively placing stations to support low-income communities.
Read More >Source: International Transport Forum
Offers guidance on implementing mobility measurement frameworks to assess benefits and negative impacts and guide policy. Features lessons from ten global case studies to offer recommendations for data reporting and monitoring frameworks.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides an overview of equity considerations for shared micromobility.
Read More >Source: Transportation for America
Explores core components of a comprehensive shared micromobility policy for local governments to consider.
Read More >Source: International Transport Forum
Summarizes an analysis of the latest trends and risks in micromobility safety.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Summarizes presentations and discussions from a peer exchange on equitable shared mobility with MPOs.
Read More >FHWA Federal Policy, Research, and Funding Opportunities for Shared Micromobility Projects
Source: Shared-Use Mobility Center
Summarizes a presentation on challenges and opportunities for micromobility related to policy and funding.
Read More >Source: North American Bikeshare & Scootershare Association (NABSA)
Demonstrates shared micromobility’s continued growth and viability as an important mode for public transportation.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides a synthesis of regulations and permitting related to shared micromobility systems.
Read More >Source: North American Bikeshare & Scootershare Association (NABSA)
Shows that shared micromobility ridership returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2022.
Read More >Source: FHWA
Outlines micromobility efforts and activities from FHWA, FTA, BTS, and other offices.
Read More >Developing Ways to Expand Use of Micromobility in Historically Marginalized Communities
Announces funding and resources for partnerships in four cities to expand micromobility.
Read More >Source: International Transport Forum (ITF)
Examines micromobility trends and reviews its benefits and social costs to help develop governance frameworks and regulations that maximize the contributions of e-scooters, electric bikes, and pedal bikes to more sustainable mobility while minimizing negative effects.
Read More >Source: TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program
Provides an analysis of the full benefits and impacts of micromobility on public transportation systems in transit-rich markets as well as in medium-sized and smaller urban areas.
Read More >Source: CitiesToday
Explains the need for common ways of measuring the sustainability of e-scooters through life cycle assessments to appraise environmental performance and provides cases studies from four cities.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Presents the findings on modeling demand for shared e-scooter services.
Read More >Book: New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies by Todd Litman
Source: Island Press
Examines and evaluates 12 emerging transportation modes and services, including: bike and carsharing, micromobilities, ridehailing and microtransit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles, air taxis, mobility prioritization, and logistics management.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
PBCAT 3 allows users to develop a database of crash information, from which to analyze data, create reports, and select countermeasures.
Read More >Source: Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS)
A report that shares results from a project that explored micromobility safety, especially as it relates to e-scooters.
Read More >Source: International Transport Forum (ITF)
Explores street space allocation and describes how to measure space needs for mobility purposes.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Board
Presents results from an ongoing research project on emerging safety issues arising from the expanding use of e-scooters.
Read More >European Micromobility Alliance Publishes E-Scooter Incident Data
Source: SmartCitiesWorld
Reports that Micro-Mobility for Europe (MMfE) released a fact sheet of aggregated incident data involving shared e-scooters in Europe.
Read More >Sharing in Action: Micromobility in Local Climate Strategies
Source: Shared-Use Mobility Center
Reports on the climate action plans of more than 30 U.S. cities to identify model language on micromobility as a climate change strategy.
Read More >Source: NACTO
This is one of seven working papers as part of the update to the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide.
Read More >Source: Oregon DOT
Provides best practices and recommendations for e-micromobility.
Read More >Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer Product Safety Commission Letter to manufacturers of e-scooters, e-bikes, and other micromobility devices calls for compliance with UL safety standards to reduce the risk of injury and death.
Read More >Source: National Transportation Safety Board
Evaluates how limitations in available e-scooter and e-bike data present challenges for assessing the safety of these micromobility devices.
Read More >Source: Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP)
Seeks to advance multimodal road safety by identifying safety risks emerging from the growing use of e-scooters and developing comprehensive guidance, tools, policy options, and educational materials to mitigate those risks.
Read More >Understanding and Tackling Micromobility: Transportation’s New Disruptor
Source: Governors' Highway Safety Association
Explores six micromobility challenges – oversight, funding, data collection, enforcement, infrastructure, and education – and the role State Highway Safety Offices and their partners can play to help address them.
Read More >Micromobility Products-Related Deaths, Injuries, and Hazard Patterns: 2017–2019
Source: Consumer Product Safety Commission
Presents the latest available statistics on injury estimates, fatalities, and hazard patterns associated with three micromobility products: e-scooters (including dockless/rental e-scooters), hoverboards, and e-bikes.
Read More >Source: Shared-Use Mobility Center
The Micromobility Policy Atlas classifies shared bike, e-bike, and scooter policies across a dozen areas of regulation and management, providing information on guidelines, permits, and laws from from around the world.
Read More >Source: FWHA
Provides an overview of shared micromobility devices (bicycles, scooters, e-bikes, and e-scooters) and planning considerations across six topic areas.
Read More >Source: North American Bikeshare Association
Explains GBFS and defines a common data format to share the real-time status of a shared mobility system.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Public Roads
Provides an overview of FHWA initiatives to develop expertise in the emerging micromobility field.
Read More >E-Scooter Management in Midsized Cities in the United States
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Info brief documents practices, challenges, and opportunities related to micromobility, specifically e-scooters, in nine midsized US cities.
Read More >The Basics of Micromobility and Related Motorized Devices for Personal Transport
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Typology and framework that classifies and defines vehicles and emerging “micromobility” devices for integrating into transportation systems.
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