Posts by Phil Latz
Amazon Invests Heavily in Micromobility
Belfast, Northern Ireland Logistics giant Amazon has recently opened its latest micromobility hub, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It’s one of 40 such hubs that Amazon has already opened in cities across Europe. Micromobility hubs are physical centres within urban areas where packages are sorted before the final leg of their journey. They are usually located…
Infrastructure Briefs: E-Scooter Accidents Rapidly Declining, Study Claims
E-Scooter reported injuries per million trips declined by 44% from 2022 to 2023 according to a recent report. Meanwhile the number of incidents requiring medical treatment or fatal injuries, incidents dropped by 19%. Micro-Mobility for Europe (MMfE) is an industry collaboration of major bike and scooter share operators. They base their claims on date from…
Proposal to Raid Active Transport Funds for More Highway Expansion
Lime Returns to Brisbane with Expanded Fleet.
Brisbane Queensland More electric scooters will soon be on Brisbane streets, as the city’s original scooter hire scheme operator prepares its return this year. As part of a new deal with Brisbane City Council, San Francisco-based Lime will provide 1,700 e-scooters and 400 e-bikes. They replace Neuron as one of the two approved share scheme…
World Bicycle Relief Plans to Exceed One Million Bicycles
Chicago, USA On Boxing Day, 26th December 2024 a huge earthquake caused a tsunami that swept across Indonesia and neighbouring countries, killing almost a quarter of a million people and leaving millions more homeless. F.K. Day and his wife Leah watched these events unfold from their home in the USA and wanted to help. That…
11th Hour Bid by New York Governor to Stop Congestion Pricing
New York City, USA Congestion pricing is a relatively simple concept: implement a fee for motor vehicles entering a crowded city centre. Then use this new revenue source to fund better public transport, so that both former drivers and existing public transport users have improved alternative means of transport. The concept may be simple, but…
New Portal to Enhance 2025 Micromobility Report Yearbook
Earlier this year we launched the first annual Micromobility Report Yearbook. We’re now well underway with planning and working towards the 2nd edition of the Micromobility Report Yearbook. After an extensive process of scope documentation and recruiting, we hired an experienced programming contractor. They are writing a new portal that will create a single interface…
Episode 1: See.Sense
Season 1 Episode 1 Philip and Irene McAleese are the co-founders of See.Sense. Established in 2013 by Philip and Irene McAleese, See.Sense leverages advanced sensor and AI technology to make cycling and micromobility safer and smarter. Philip and Irene have won a string of prestigious international awards for their ground-breaking technology that they’ve been rolling…
Annual Guide to E-Bikes – More Growth and Innovation Ahead
In some ways e-bikes almost seem old-fashioned and already taken for granted, when there are newer, bright shiny things to capture our attention such as e-scooters or light electric vehicles. But the Australian e-bike market really only started to take off just seven years ago and despite a post-covid drop in import numbers and a…
Active Transport Lessons from Taipei for Australia
Taipei, Taiwan When it comes to transportation and urban design, every large city faces a similar set of challenges and trade-offs, but they respond to these in vastly different ways. Taipei is the capital and by far the largest city of Taiwan. I first visited in 1996 to attend the annual Taipei Cycle expo, which…