Populus, the industry-leading platform for cities to manage transportation and mobility services and Merian Ventures portfolio company, announced that it was awarded a contract by the City of San Diego to provide its robust mobility management platform through a multi-year partnership. The Populus platform is the solution of choice for cities around the world to securely receive data from shared mobility operators such as e-scooters, mopeds, and cars, and to digitally manage new mobility, curb, and street policies.
Read MorePopulus, the industry-leading platform for cities to manage transportation and mobility services and Merian Ventures portfolio company, will partner with the U.S. DOT to identify opportunities to harness data from some of the 45 million trips it has already processed from shared bikes, electric bikes, and electric scooters to facilitate micromobility management.
Read MoreDr. Regina Clewlow, CEO & Co-founder of Populus.ai, a Merian Ventures portfolio company, recently spoke as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center’s Our New Mobility Future thought leadership series.
“We’ve really transitioned from mobility as a product that one buys, typically a car, to mobility as a service, and this is in large part due to the proliferation of these shared business models and the arrival of dockless bikes and scooters," she said.
Micromobility—small, lightweight modes of personal transportation such as scooters and bikes—and their associated data are being used to transform how individuals travel and how cities plan, according to Regina Clewlow, PhD, the CEO and co-founder of micromobility data company Populus.
Read MorePopulus’ latest report, Curb and Mobility Management, is for ever-evolving cities and mobility services to dynamically manage how transportation infrastructure and determine how to allocate public space. City departments of transportation are on the frontlines of reconfiguring how our streets and sidewalks are used in light of changes such as significant growth in delivery services or requests from restaurants to access curb space for outdoor dining.
This report includes results from a survey on the mobility policies of 40 cities around the world and outlines historical as well as more recent innovative strategies for curbside management to help cities manage their mobility future.
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