Infrastructure
This category includes any product or service that enables micromobility.
New Table Gives Comprehensive Overview of Bike and Scooter Status Australia-wide
Brisbane, Qld We developed a table of shared micromobility services in major Australian cities in February 2021, and the Micromobility Report followed up with an update five months later to reflect the changes. Three years on, we were invited to revisit our initial table, and this is our latest update. In 2024, shared micromobility is…
Bike and Scooter Share Ridership in North America Hits All Time High
Australia is not the only place where bike and scooter share has been growing strongly. All three modes of bike and scooter share: dockless bikeshare, docked bikeshare and scooter share, grew strongly in 2023 across the USA and Canada. Total trips on shared micromobility increased by 20% from 2022, surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 peak of…
Infrastructure Briefs – From Sydney to Frankfurt and More
Missing Link Construction is Almost Complete As we’ve previously reported several times including here and here, the City of Sydney has been gradually overcoming all obstacles to build a major new protected cycleway along Oxford and Liverpool streets. This is a key missing link between the eastern suburbs of Sydney and the CBD and will…
City of Sydney Expands 40 kph Streets
Sydney, NSW Sydney’s streets will soon be even safer for everyone who walks, rides or drives, with the City of Sydney reducing speed limits to 40km/h across the local area. The changes will apply to the remaining regional and local roads that currently have a default speed limit of 50km/h within multiple suburbs. But on…
More Women and Children are Riding in Sydney
Sydney NSW A detailed survey of 5,722 cyclists passing by seven precisely defined checkpoints within the City of Sydney has revealed some fascinating insights. Normally I don’t run press releases in full, in fact, perhaps one in a hundred of the releases I’ve been sent over the years. But I’m doing so at the end…
30 KPH Trial Extended and Expanded in Melbourne
Federal Government Announces $100 million Active Transport Fund
Canberra, ACT On Tuesday 7th June the federal Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Catherine King MP announced that the following Tuesday’s federal budget would include $100 million in funding to set up a new national Active Transport Fund. We anticipate that this money will be spent over four years at $25…
New Smaller, Lighter E-bikes Introduced to Australian Bikeshare
Brisbane, Queensland Beam has introduced 260 ‘Apollo Lite’ E-Bikes to join their existing Brisbane e-bike share fleet for a total of 38 e-bikes. The new Apollo Lite design also aims to close the gender gap in micromobility, with Beam’s recent rider survey showing that only 34% of e-bike riders in Brisbane identify as female, with…
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…