Lubbock, Texas scooter ordinance requires:
- ride-share scooter companies need to have a connection with a higher education institution
KLBK News | City Slaps Ordinance on Ride Share Scooter Companies Coming to the Hub City
Category Archives: local government
+1 City Scooter Ordinance Requiring Helmets. Where. What.
Where: Durham, NC
What: City Ordinance requires helmets by all riders.
The city ordinance also requires:
- $1,000 for permit application.
- $100 per scooter on the street.
- $25 per bike.
- $50 for each device the city has to relocate for the company.
- $500 to renew annual permit.
Business TREND. Data Sharing partnership to Help Local Governments.
3 businesses:
- Ford
- Uber
- Lyft
have joined the data sharing project, SharedStreets, that focused on transportation that combines data from public and private sources.
Source of this data sharing project: National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Open Transport Partnership
Goal of the project that helps cities: help officials integrate mobility services like ride-hailing
The Drive | Ford, Uber, Lyft Join Urban Data-Sharing Project to Reduce Traffic and Pollution
TX Attorney General Opinion Request. Counties and County Truck Weight Enforcement
Requestor: Liberty County Attorney
Questions for the Texas Attorney General to answer:
- Can County law enforcement enforce weight restrictions or do they need DPS certification?
- Can DPS revoke a law enforcement’s authority to enforce weight restrictions that were granted by a county commissioners court?
- Does a county commissioner court’s grant of authority equal to authority under Texas Transportation Code§ 621.402(e)?
Lege Trend. Scooter Ordinances and Helmets.
Californai Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 2989 (2018 | CA) exempting helmet use from riding electric scooters on city streets.
Sacramento Bee | Brown exempts adults from wearing helmets on scooters
Business TREND. 3 Reasons a rail project opposes another high speed rail project in Texas.
SNCF America says Central Texas Partners high speed rail proposal in Texas will:
- Japan is not right for Texas. ” Texas Central “project is right for Japanese companies subsidized by Japanese taxpayers and wrong for Texas,””
- Texans should decide on rail. Texas should decide whether projects are high speed rail or fast trains
- Rail should connect to other projects. The Japanese high speed rail has an interoperability problem in that it cannot connect to other rail.
Local TREND. Scooter Ordinances and DATA Standards. 3 Key Points.
After ride share regulations, and the data that was shared, acquired or lost, local governments are:
- Seeing BUSINESS TREND of new software to help cities organize new sorts of transportation data
- Information cities want to know about scooters:
- how many scooters and bikes are parked
- where they?
- where trips start?
- where do trips end?
- How much detail do cities want? down to the census tract.
- Who is using scooters and bikes?
- are they taking cars off the road?
New Study. Ride Share Less Likely to Take Advantage of Passengers.4 Points from the Academics in Boston.
MIT Researchers found that ride share drivers:
- taxi drivers are more likely than Uber drivers to take advantage of a situation that offers opportunities to earn a higher fare
- 7.4% deviation on average for airport pickups
- when a taxi driver switched over to driving Uber, their behavior also changed to match the effect
- Taxi drivers also tend to speed more than Uber drivers
- Uber drivers do tend to be susceptible to detouring or driving more slowly to extend a metered airport trip when surge…
+1 Local Gov. Capping Ride Share. What you Need to Know. How. What. Where.
Where: Miami Beach
What: Miami Beach Commissioners want to cap the number of ride shares, like NYC did
How? By asking state legislators to allow exceptions to statewide ride sahre regulations to allow for a cap or to allow for a cap and a wage requirement. The latter being the NYC approach.
What’s the argument supporting the exceptions? ride share is skirting the rules
“For a certain price, these companies circumvent home rule and buy themselves legislators who create the laws in…
Local Government TREND. 19 Cities. Electric Fleet Car Promise. Procurement Link.
The cities & local governments include:
- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Houston
- Cleveland
- Pittsburgh
- Fayatteville, N.C.
- Los Angeles County
- Ohio’s Cuyahoga County
Year 1 electric vehicle purchase requirements: 376 vehicles in their first year
Requirements:
- local governments must lease or buy electric vehicles
- provides mechnism for local governments to buy charging equipment
- will offer assistance from the Electrification Coalition