Category: Urban Tech
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Will the U.S. Adopt Scooters
While Americans are still entrenched in this idea of make the car great again with autonomous systems, there’s another urban transport mode people have overlooked, the scooter. The scooter or motor bike is ubiquitous in Asia because of historically narrow and uneven roads. Match that with limited parking and hilly terrain and you have a good…
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Transit Tech Startups
Shaun Abrahamson of Urban.us detailed a list of “Pop-up Mass Transit” startups operating now. From a VC perspective, he’s concerned about how game theory will make or break their mobility promises. Can shuttle startup A beat out carshare startup B on price and retain users when the true cost of providing these services becomes reality. I couldn’t help…
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Ride Sharing and the Future Urban Fabric
I felt this TechCrunch article “Ride Sharing Will Give Us Back Our Cities” jumped the gun for me on issues of land use equity. Planners have to be skeptical about how technology will change the landscape. Our own foray into technology, the freeway, created an unforeseen sprawl landscape and car-centric culture. Currently, the decoupling…