Smarter Cars Podcast - Spring Update
Friends, hope you are well and managing through the pandemic. May the vaccine be with you soon!
Podcast Season 6
In Season 6 of the podcast, we check in on the state of micromobility in Europe. Europe has become a key market for micromobility companies and we explore trends in city regulation, sustainability, technology, parking, and form factors. Here are the links if you missed any of our episodes:
This season we also talk with some companies that provide technology or storage/charging services to micromobility companies:
Recent Articles
On the Smarter Cars blog, you can find my piece on why we should enact fair road pricing and reallocate road space in order to manage the externalities of all car traffic, not just ride services and autonomous ride services: https://smartercars.substack.com/p/we-are-the-traffic
You can also find information about my book The New Mobility Handbook - Rethinking How We Get Around Cities, here: https://smartercars.substack.com/p/the-new-mobility-handbook
Finally, Some Personal News…
I’ve just joined the Policy/Legal team at Superpedestrian - thrilled to be helping out micromobility policy OGs Avra van der Zee, Paul Steely White, Ben Larocco and fabulous Smarter Cars podcast guest Graham Gullans and the rest of the terrific team at Superpedestrian!
What does this mean for the Smarter Cars podcast?? I have no idea - since I started in 2017, I’ve been making up this whole podcast thing as I go along! Our themes have evolved from autonomous vehicles to the impact of new mobility on cities to micromobility when it was introduced. I guess sometimes the smartest car is a scooter or bike! But I pulled all those themes together in my book to show that tech and urbanism can work together - that it’s not either/or when it comes to transportation in cities. We need to choose the right tool for the job for each trip and use fair pricing and allocation of space to make those choices work for cities.
So I’m not sure where we’ll go next in this transportation journey, but I hope you’ll chime in with your thoughts!
Cheers,
Michele