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.
The Public Transport Authority of Western Australia has chosen Flowbird Transport Intelligence as the prime contractor for its multimodal smart card scheme, SmartRider.
The contactless electronic ticketing system uses RFID technology to provide Perth’s metropolitan region with access to bus, train and ferry services.
Flowbird will provide ongoing support services for the daily running of SmartRider on all three modes. The company says it will establish “an enhanced service and support base” in Perth to s
ITS Helsinki has announced a webinar on 4 June to present the congress programme and help visitors plan their trip to the European congress.
Eric Sampson, senior congress programme advisor, will present this year’s programme by highlighting some of the most engaging sessions and events of the week, including the opening ceremony, the three plenary sessions and the closing sessions, as well as the eco-driving competition, the White Night and more.
Didier Gorteman, director of Congresses, will introduce
The first BigDataEurope at 1000 CET on 21 September will look at the societal challenge of Smart, Green and Integrated Transport.
The webinar sets out to introduce the BigDataEurope project in general as well as the various stakeholders and applications for Big Data in the Transport domain in particular, followed by a question and answer session.
More information on the agenda and speakers will be available shortly. Register for the seminar here.
The Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Denver, Colorado, has entered into an agreement which will allow its riders to view transit routes within Uber’s app.
RTD says the collaboration will allow commuters to plan their travel with additional first/last mile options.
Riders can select the app’s ‘Transit’ option to see available routes, real-time schedules and walking directions to and from stations.
Looking ahead, the partnership intends to allow riders to purchase RTD tickets via the app,