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Multimodal Mondays: Inequalities & Challenges within our Public Transportation Systems
As National Indigenous History Month comes to a close, we wanted to use this month’s Multimodal Monday’s episode to introduce you to Canon Cook, who has worked closely with movmi on our Shared Mobility City Index (SMCI) and has an on-the-ground experience working in the transportation industry. We interviewed Canon to find out her thoughts on the inequalities and challenges cities and rural communities across North America have with their public transportation systems.
Building blocks for livable cities: Highlights from CITE Annual Conference, Vancouver
CITE was one of the first major in-person transportation conferences in Vancouver since the pandemic and movmi was excited to attend. Focused on transportation engineering, the conference was full of learnings about how cities are increasingly aligning sustainable living in their projects and planning. Keep reading for a breakdown of movmi’s CITE conference highlights!
Improving Community Mobility With DRT/Microtransit: E-learning Course Now Available!
What exactly is on-demand shared mobility, where does DRT and microtransit fit in? How does it work? What are best practices and lessons learnt from existing projects?
World Bicycle Day 2022: The Benefits of Bike Sharing
In this article we take a look at the origins of the bicycle and bikesharing systems and list the key benefits that bikesharing offers for the user, the operator and for cities. Happy World Bicycle Day!
Multimodal Mondays: Global Employee Health and Fitness Month
This month we are joined by Adriel Thornton, Executive Director at MoGo Detroit Bikeshare and Vlad Marica, Head of Sales at Fluidtime Data Services GmbH for a chat about how the pandemic affected commuting patterns, micromobility and active transportation and how employers are implementing these modes during Global Employee Health and Fitness month and all year round.
Deloitte’s Transportation Forum 2022, Vancouver
The 2022 Transportation Forum, hosted by Deloitte, featured leaders from both government and industry who discussed these important issues through keynotes and informative panel discussions on the future of transportation and mobility in our region.
One of the experts included as a panelist in this Forum was movmi’s Founder and CEO, Sandra Phillips who took part in Session Two: Urban Mobility: Innovation and technology for a better quality of life. Keep reading for a short summary of this discussion.
Micromobility Update 2022: Shared E-scooters in Canada
We explore the growth of the e-scooter industry, the benefits of having shared e-scooter options within our cities and which Canadian cities will be the next to launch their own shared e-scooter fleets.
Small Business Week: 4 Shared Mobility Success Stories
Small businesses are critical to our worldwide economy, especially in the shared mobility space. Globally, the majority of employers are small and medium sized business
Electric Bikeshare Whitepaper, 2022
In our latest whitepaper, we identify how shared electric bikeshare operations can be a win-win for users, operators, cities and the planet. We also provide real life examples, insights and data describing how to attract riders, ensure operational feasibility, and improve multimodality of cities.
Autonomy Paris 2022: movmi’s Top Moments
This year, on March 16th and 17th, Autonomy Paris was back for a in-person event after a two-year digital hiatus brought about due to the global pandemic. This year, movmi’s Sandra Phillips attended (in person) for the first time since the pandemic. Here is a quick round-up of movmi’s time at Autonomy, Paris.
Micromobility Business Model
In this article we review the different types of micromobility business models, offer advice on how to build a micromobility business model to suit your needs and use movmi’s own case studies to explore the challenges and successes of different micromobility business models.
Getting Around Northern Ireland: My Experience of Irish Transportation
In honour of St.Patrick’s Day this year, the team at movmi nominated me (their very own Irish expat! ☘️) to write an article, about my personal experience of transportation and shared mobility living in Ireland. Northern Ireland to be exact.
In this article I discuss my personal experience with transportation in Ireland, including both public and private options… or the lack of.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
