Posts Tagged ‘Highlight’
This is to recognise articles that need to appear in the highlights section at the top of the home page.
Beam Fallout Continues After Whistleblower’s Revelations
On the weekend of Saturday 24th August, a story about micromobility was splashed across the front page of the Weekend Australian newspaper under the headline, “‘Running Hot Project’: e-scooter firm Beam accused of audacious scam” The first section of this article will republish a large section of that original article published by the Weekend Australian,…
Paris Shines Before and During the Olympics
Lee Waters Completes Successful Speaking Tour of Australia
One of cycling advocacy’s global leaders recently spoke to large, enthusiastic crowds across Australia. Over recent years Lee Waters has been one of the most courageous and consequential politicians in the world when it comes to advocating for safer, more sustainable travel modes and questioning the usually unchallenged primacy of private automobiles. As Minister for…
Infrastructure Briefs – Some Important Australian Projects Progressing Well
If you’re an advocate for better cycling and micromobility infrastructure in Australia, you may sometimes despair at the slow rate of progress. So sometimes its good to stop and take stock of what is actually getting built. The items summarised within this article total more than half a billion dollars of new infrastructure that is…
Active Transportation Lessons from London for Australia
London, UK Recently I spent a week in London enjoying glorious mid-summer sunshine and 9:30 pm sunsets while my colleagues in Australia were enjoying a record mid-winter cold snap. Ahh… that felt good to write! But it wasn’t all beer and skittles, as they say in the UK. Back in March when I made my…
Huge Investment in New Products on Show at Eurobike 2024
Frankfurt, Germany Each year, Frankfurt, Germany hosts the world’s biggest bicycle and micromobility expo. With western Europe being so much more transport and utility focused than Australia, products that still have a small market here, such as e-cargo bikes, have huge markets in Europe, so take centre stage at Eurobike. This article is a customised…
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…
Update Your Listing! New Micromobility Portal Now Open
Late last year we launched the first annual Micromobility Report Yearbook. This is a sourcing guide that we publish in both online flipbook and print formats. The Micromobility Report Yearbook follows the proven format of its sister publication, The Latz Report Yearbook that has been successfully serving the Australian bicycle trade since 1996. Even in…
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…
Autonomous Driving is Here and Will Be Good for Micromobility
I’m not an expert, but for the past decade I’ve been following developments in autonomous driving quite closely. I also consume a lot of podcasts with tech / transportation / cycling / micromobility themes. Like anything that’s radically different, there has been a lot of hype and fear in roughly equal parts in relation to…