Lime and rivals form Nordic Micromobility Association
Lime and its competitors Tier and Voi have formed the Nordic Micromobility Association to promote safety standards for electric scooters.
The association will seek to strengthen relationships between Nordic cities and micromobility businesses as well as reduce emissions.
Earlier this year, Voi announced its plans to launch e-scooters in Lisbon as part of a wider ambition to expand in Europe.
The association’s members are not the only companies working to improve the safety of e-scooters. Last ye
August 29, 2019
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Lime and its competitors Tier and Voi have formed the Nordic Micromobility Association to promote safety standards for electric scooters.
The association will seek to strengthen relationships between Nordic cities and micromobility businesses as well as reduce emissions.
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The association’s members are not the only companies working to improve the safety of e-scooters. Last year, US mobility company Bird %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external formedfalsehttps://www.itsinternational.com/categories/utc/news/bird-establishes-board-to-help-increase-safety-for-e-scooter-riders/falsefalse%> a global safety advisory board to implement campaigns and products to improve safety for riders.
Karhoo has partnered with Carey to allow users to book executive chauffeured services across London including to all airports in the UK capital.
The deal is set to expand Karhoo’s current offering of around 25,000 taxis and cars which are operating in London.
Sandy Miller, CEO of Carey, says users can now access the company’s service on the Karhoo platform in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
The partners plan to expand the integration to incorporate Carey's network in more than 1,000 cities worldwide.
GoTo Mobility has integrated its vehicle sharing technology platform with Moovit’s Mobility as a Service (MaaS) app to offer commuters in Israel with access to shared cars.
The partnership is expected to allow GoTo Mobility customers in Israel such as AutoTel and Car2Go to display car-sharing services in Moovit’s app.
GoTo Mobility provides a modular technology solution for one-way, free-floating or round trip corporate fleets and peer-to-peer car-sharing services.
Moovit users will now be able to vie
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) is to extend its SimplyGo system to allow commuters to pay for transport via Visa contactless cards from 6 June.
The move follows an initial launch in which SimplyGo was made available for commuters using Mastercard in March.
Yeo Teck Guan, LTA senior group director, public transport, says: “We are seeing a steady uptake in usage since its launch, with an average of over 120,000 daily trips. With the inclusion of Visa, more commuters will benefit,”
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Here Technologies’ location platform is being used by Motion Auto to deliver user-based insurance policies to its customers.
The platform will provide the insurer with information on speed limits and rules of the road as well as measurements of the road surface condition and variable data such as traffic conditions.
Daniel Weisman, co-founder of Motion Auto, says Here will help the company understand the behaviour of customers and their relationships to routes, road conditions and traffic.
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