Category Archives: EV electric vehicles

Local Trend. Business Trend. 4 Examples of 1st/Last Mile to Public Transportation.

Entering into partnerships with Waymo, Uber and Lyft, or creating their own programs, cities address  last mile transportation options for pulic transit riders such as:

  • Waymo driverless vans taking riders to transit stops
    • A pilot program in Phoenix will start with local government employees and expand to seniors and the disabled
  • Cities are partnering with ride share companies for first/last mile connections to boost public transit use
  • Cities are creating their own first/last mile…

LOCAL TREND. Bike Sharing Ordinance in the Northwest. 5 Key Elements.

Seattle City Council adopted a new bicylce sharing ordinance that:

  • creates a 20,000 cap on sharing bicylces
  • sets a nonbinding deadline for the city to build a network of protected downtown bike lanes 
  • 4 companies, only 1 company, Lime has agreed to continue operating
    • $250,000 licensing fee
    • 5,000 bikes each
  • Audits 2 times a year  to ensure proper bike parking
  • The licensing fee is to fund up to 200 new bike-parking corrals

Seattle Times | City Council approves new bike-share rules,…

TAX TREND. Tax Bikes and Public Transit for Roads. Where. What. How. The Legislation to Copy.

WHERE:  Republican Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee

WHAT: Revenue source to  raise revenue for highway construction

HOW: By imposing taxes/fees on:

  • fuel taxes paid by transit agencies
  • 10% tax on adult bicycle tires
  • 10% tax on electric batteries for cars and bikes

THE LEGISLATION DRAFT

Transportation & Infrastructure Committee | Shuster Releases Plan to Transform America’s Infrastructure

StreetsBlogUSA | House GOP Transportation Bill Would Raise Taxes on Transit and Bikes 

Local TREND. Anatomy of LA's dockless bike regulations

Los Angeles regulation of dockless bikes/scooters follows this path:

  • cap that limits the number of vehicles companies can deploy in the city to 3,000
  • if companies move into disadvantaged areas, then they can add 2500 more
  • provide ridership data to the city
  • companies have responsibility related to parking of the dockless bikes

Curbed | LA moves forward with regulations for dockless bikes and scooters 

Local TREND. Regulating dockless Bikes in the Sunshine State

Miami- Dade wants to take a shot at regulating dockless bikes with these standards:

  • $100 fines for obstructing right of ways AKA no blocking sidewalks
  • removal by the Department of Transportation and Public Works
  • studies including:
    • whether to regulate the dockless bike industry
    • whether to create designated parking areas,

This comes 1 month after Miami City Attorney issued cease and desist letters for the dockless bikes.

Miami New Times | Miami-Dade Wants to Crack Down on Shared Bikes…

Lege TREND. Bill Promotes EVs & Helps Ride Share.

California’s SB 1014 (CA | 2018) would credit Ride Share use of Electric Vehicles, including the use of bikes and scooters through ride share apps.

Ride share comapnies would be encouraged to invest in and encourage bike share and scooter share programs.

Here’s California PUC’s white paper on increasing EV use.

StreetsBlogCAL | Bill to Increase Use of Zero-Emission Vehicles Could Credit Uber, Lyft for Bike Miles

3 POINTS WORLDS LARGEST AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TESTING TRACK. How is it funded?

Where is the world’s largest autonomous vehicle testing track? Ohio’s Transportation Research Center is building it in Central Ohio

What will the facility and track include?

  • 540-acre and $45 million SMART Center
  • 4,500-acre campus total area
  • 1.2-mile-long, six-lane-wide connected roadway, a network of movable intersections, roundabouts and oblique intersection scenarios

Funding by:

  •  State of Ohio
  • The Ohio State University
  • JobsOhio, a private nonprofit economic-development group

State…

Lege & Regulatory TREND. 4 Things Law Enforcement Wants in Self Driving Car Regulations.

Tools law enforcement wants  to ineract or direct self driving cars, especially during an emergency:

  • Integration with public safety officials
  • Regulation of data that is shared between law enforcement and self driving vehicles
  • Established cyber security standards and privacy standards 
  • Address elderly and disabled population use of autonomous driving vehicles

Reuters | U.S. regulators grappling with self-driving vehicle security.