View original post. Sharing is the future of mobility. Quite appropriately, the principle of car-sharing itself is increasingly shared – with different providers, wider applications, new geographies. A sampler.  With its struggling automotive market and infrastructural problems, Russia is an unlikely source of mobility innovation. Nevertheless, the car-sharing capital of Europe is… Moscow. Traffic jams The Russian capital was recently …

View original post. UBER: IT’S NOT just for cars anymore. Less than a decade after launching, it has rolled out rides for the normies (UberX), for those who don’t mind sharing (UberPool), and for those who don’t mind walking (Uber Express Pool). It offers on-demand grub (UberEats) and connects truckers with stuff that needs trucking (UberFreight). This week, the company acquired Jump …

View original post.The big daddy of ride sharing, Uber, has officially jumped into electric bike sharing. On Monday Uber announced that it has acquired Jump Bikes, a ten-year-old venture capital-backed startup that rents out dockless electric bicycles to users around cities. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but a report from last week said that an acquisition was worth …

View original post. Add another company to the list of transportation services filling Uber’s London-sized void. Mercedes-Benz and Via have launched their jointly owned ViaVan service in Zones 1 and 2 of the city, giving Londoners a “ridesharing” option that bridges the gap between plain ridesharing and mass transit. The allure, as you might guess, stems from the low cost that comes with multi-passenger rides …

View original post. Car ownership isn’t always convenient, but hailing one on your smartphone is. Mobility services, such as ridehailing, carsharing, rentals and carpooling, are showing growth. This is underpinned by a combination of enabling technologies and changing social preferences, with millennials and centennials more attracted to access over ownership. We estimate mobility services will grow by an average of 14% …

View original post. The lack of competition could have far-reaching effects for drivers in terms of earnings and commuters who may have to play higher fares. Regulators quickly moved yesterday to address these concerns, with the Land Transport Authority (LTA) saying it would study the impact of the merger and ensure that “no one single market player dominates the sector …

View original post. Shared mobility. The term still sounds kind of weird, even though the first carsharing program began way back in 1948 in Zurich and bikesharing began in 1965 in Amsterdam. And now, with so much technology to spur so many new players into this space, here we are several years into a Chicago-based conference, the National Shared Mobility Summit, that has turned into one …

View original post. Earlier this year, we wrote about how economic, environmental, and social forces have quickly given rise to shared mobility – the shared use of a vehicle, bicycle, or other low-speed travel mode. The role of shared mobility in the broader landscape of urban mobility has become a frequent topic of discussion. Major shared modes—such as bikesharing, carsharing, …

View original post. It’s making public transit worse. Earlier this month, a few dozen companies, cities, and organizations pledged to work together to make cities more livable by promoting shared transportation. The plan, they said, would make urban areas more equitable, accessible, and environmentally friendly—all by gradually eliminating the privately owned personal car and relying exclusively on public transit and tech-led transportation …

View original post. This is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared at Move Forward. Bikesharing, carsharing, ride-hailing services like Lyft and Uber, and ridesharing in the forms of carpooling and vanpooling are changing how people travel and transforming cities around the world. Here is a roundup of some of the latest research on the effects of shared mobility across …