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All SUMC News Mentions:
Baguete: Morre A Indústria Automobilística, Nasce A Mobilidade Como Indústria (11/5/19)
ZDNet: How Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Car Ownership (11/4/19)
Mass Transit Magazine: Chicago Collaboration Looks to Redefine Modern Transportation (10/31/19)
Government Technology: Chicago Collaboration Looks to Redefine Modern Transportation (10/29/19)
Government Technology: Midsize Cities Hold the Key to Innovations in Smart Mobility (10/4/19)
Chicago Inno: As Chicago’s E-Scooter Pilot Comes to an End, Officials Want Rider Feedback (9/25/19)
Chicago Sun-Times: Unclog Chicago’s Streets and Expressways, But Do It Wisely (9/10/19)
Government Technology: Looking for a Scooter in Chicago? Launch the Transit App (7/25/19)
Crain’s Chicago Business: How Congestion Pricing Can Help Chicago’s Infrastructure (7/9/19)
Smart Cities Dive: Groups Call on Chicago Mayor to Consider Congestion Pricing (7/1/19)
Chicago Tribune: Why a Rush-Hour Commute Could Cost More. Transportation Groups Ask Lightfoot to Consider ‘Congestion Pricing’ (6/28/19)
Streetsblog Chicago: Bird Flips Us a New Shareable Electric Gizmo, the 2-Seater “Cruiser” Moped (6/5/19)
Curbed Chicago: How Did Mayor Rahm Emanuel Change Transportation? (5/14/19)
Indianapolis Business Journal: City Officials Hope Scooters Can Help Solve Residents’ Transit Challenges (5/10/19)
Government Technology: Chicago to Test E-Scooters in Limited Areas outside the Loop (5/6/19)
Chicago Tribune: The Scooters Are Coming: Chicago Announces Electric Scooter Pilot Program West of Halsted Street (5/2/19)
Streetsblog USA: Talking Headways Podcast: Transport Pros Will Make or Break the Planet (5/2/19)
Yahoo Finance: EVgo Launches Equal Access Charging Hub (EACH) Program to Promote More Sustainable California Communities Through Expanded Access to Electric Vehicle Fast Charging (5/1/19)
Occupational Health & Safety: New California Program Supports Clean Mobility Projects (4/23/19)
Streetsblog Chicago: Check Out Recommendations from Lori’s Transportation Transition Committee (4/23/19)
Green Car Congress: New $17M California Program to Improve Access to Clean Alternative Transportation Modes in Most Vulnerable Communities (4/16/19)
The Associated Press: Carsharing Offers Ways to Profit from or Ditch Personal Car (4/3/19)
Streetsblog Chicago: How New Mobility Tech Could Impact TOD — For Good or Bad (3/26/19)
Streetsblog Chicago: New Chicago Task Force Report Has Guidelines for Shared Mobility and AV Policy (3/14/19)
Eno Transportation Weekly: Insights from the National Shared Mobility Summit (3/8/19)
Southwest Journal: A New Geography of Sustainable Transit (3/7/19)
TransportXtra: Shared Mobility Success Needs Collaboration More than Competition (2/12/19)
Chicago Sun-Times: Driverless Cars Are Coming: When Will They Arrive in Chicago? (2/10/19)
WHNT: Lyft Offers Electric Vehicle Options for Riders, Drivers (2/6/19)
Detroitisit: A New Detroit on the Move (1/16/19)
Smart Cities Dive: The Smart City Conferences to Check Out in 2019 (12/16/18)
The New York Times: Intrepid Business Travelers Are Finding Another Way to the Airport: Bike (11/26/18)
Lavender Magazine: Our Rides: New Mobility for The Last Mile (11/8/18)
The Sacramento Bee: Rural Communities Find Inventive Ways to Get Residents On the Road (11/4/18)
Indiana Business Journal: KAR Auction CEO Is Taking On Indy’s Mobility Problem (10/26/18)
WardsAuto: Panelists of One Opinion About Multi-Modal Transportation (7/31/18)
The Memphis Flyer: Memphis Area Transit Authority to Receive Help Developing On-Demand Services (7/2/18)
Mass Transit Magazine: Six Agencies Are Chosen for the Mobility on Demand On-Ramp Program (6/20/18)
Smart Cities Dive: 6 Transit Agencies to Receive Free Assistance for On-Demand Mobility Projects (6/20/18)
Indianapolis Business Journal: Civic Leaders Launch Push to Meld Transit, Technology (6/8/18)
Chicago Tribune: What Lessons Can Chicago Learn as Its Sister City Hamburg Tries Electric Shuttles, Ridesharing? (6/5/18)
Bloomberg: Scooter Startups Have Launched a Revolution. Can They Control It? (5/24/18)
Government Technology: What Do Transit Riders Prize Even More than Cheap Tickets? Convenience (5/23/18)
Government Technology: Think Uber and Lyft Are Killing Transit? Think Again (5/18/18)
CityLab: Five Breakthroughs That Could Make You Love the Bus (5/9/18)
Smart Cities World: The Changing Face of Mobility (4/30/18)
National Center for Mobility Management: Human Behavior and Mobility Management (4/10/18)
Chicago Reader: Car2go a No-Go on the South Side: ‘Again, We Are Cut Out’ (4/9/18)
American Planning Association: Planning for the Transition to Shared Autonomous Vehicles (4/6/18)
Chicago Tribune: ‘Free-Floating’ Carshare Could Be Coming to Chicago (3/26/18)
Planetizen: Discussing the State of Transit, and its Future, at the Shared Mobility Summit (3/20/18)
Forbes: The Four Problems of Urban Transportation and the Four Separate Solutions (3/19/18)
Forbes: How Carsharing Can Save the World from the Autonomous-Vehicle Robot Apocalypse (3/18/18)
Mobility Lab: 20 Or More Ideas to Make Mobility Extraordinary for All (3/16/18)
Forbes: AAA, Ford, Toyota, BMW: All See a Future with Fewer Cars (3/15/18)
Mobility Lab: “Shared Mobility” Becoming More Common in Transportation Practice (3/13/18)
Talking Headways: Mobility is Like a Heavy Metal Band (3/12/18)
City Observatory: What Drives Ridehailing: Parking, Drinking, Flying, Peaking, Pricing (2/19/18)
Crain’s Chicago Business: Which Neighborhoods Use Uber and Lyft Most (2/16/18)
WIRED: Turns Out Uber and Lyft Might Not Be Ruining the American City (1/31/18)
Metro Magazine: New Study Looks at What Transit Agencies Can Learn from TNCs’ Late-Night Popularity (1/29/18)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Study: Ridesharing Companies Can Supplement Public Transit (1/29/18)
Curbed: Microtransit: How Cities Are, And Aren’t, Adapting Transit Technology (1/9/18)
Streetsblog Chicago: Cyclists Voice Their Hopes, Concerns, and Questions About Dockless Bikeshare (12/19/17)
Chicago Reader: Could Dockless Bikeshare Disrupt Chicago? (11/15/17)
WIRED: LA Looks to Rideshare to Build the Future of Public Transit (10/24/17)
Forbes: Is Chicago Ready for Dockless Bikesharing (10/17/17)
Progrss: Twin Cities Region Prepares for More People, Less Cars (10/16/17)
Star Tribune: Solutions Sought with Twin Cities Traffic at Its Most Congested Since 1993 (10/9/17)
Next City: Twin Cities Plan for a Future with More People, Fewer Cars (10/5/17)
CBS Minnesota: Transportation Plan Seeks Take 20,000 Cars Off Twin Cities Roads (10/3/17)
Ziptopia: 5 Ways Living Car-Free Can Help Make the World a Better Place (9/22/17)
CityLab: Rural California Awaits Its ‘Uber’ (9/21/17)
Smart Cities Dive: The Shared Systems Revolutionizing City Mobility (9/14/17)
The Minnesota Daily: National Non-Profit Comes to Minneapolis with Ridesharing Goals (7/12/17)
Skift: Google Expands Waze Carpooling Across California (6/29/17)
InsideEVs: City of Los Angeles Kicks Off EV Sharing Program For Low-Income Families (6/27/17)
USA TODAY: Programs Bring Electric Cars to Low-Income People (6/20/17)
L.A. Weekly: City Hall Now Has Electric Vehicles You Can Rent (6/12/17)
Curbed Los Angeles: Electric Carsharing Program for Low-Income Communities Kicks Off in Westlake (6/9/17)
Digital Journal: Mayor Garcetti Launches Electric Vehicle Carshare Program for Disadvantaged Communities, Clean Air (6/9/17)
Environment Maine: Charging Ahead: Los Angeles Kick-Starts Electric Carsharing Program in Low-Income Communities (6/7/17)
Associated Press: Google Expands Paid Carpooling Across California (5/31/17)
HowStuffWorks: Innisfil, Ontario to Subsidize Uber Rides to Help People Get Around the Sprawling Community (5/30/17)
CityLab: Bridj Is Dead, But Microtransit Isn’t (5/3/17)
Christian Science Monitor: Need a Ride in Farm Country or in a Distant Exurb? How One Company Wants to Help (4/26/17)
Mobility Lab: Will Growth of Shared Mobility Make People More Willing to Share Their Own Cars? (4/25/17)
Metro Magazine: FTA Taps Nonprofit to Lead Mobility-On-Demand Innovation Project (4/20/17)
Mass Transit Magazine: SUMC to Lead FTA Mobility On Demand Innovation and Knowledge Accelerator Project (4/19/17)
National Apartment Association: Transit and Apartments: A Winning Combination (4/4/17)
Planning Magazine: Bikeshare and Equity: Tools for Planners (4/01/17)
CityLab: Portland Wants to Make Bikeshare Work for Disabled Riders (3/31/17)
Bloomberg: It’s Illegal for Uber Drivers to Accept Tips in Some States (3/22/17)
Curbed: How Bikeshare Is Changing American Cities (3/21/17)
Next City: What Cities Stand to Gain From Volkswagen’s Multibillion-Dollar Settlement (3/7/17)
CityLab: What’s Behind Declining Transit Ridership Nationwide? (2/24/17)
Metro Magazine: National Study to Explore Impacts of Private Transit Services (1/3/17)
Mass Transit Magazine: National Study to Explore Impacts of UberPool, Microtransit, Tech Shuttles & Other Forms of Private Transit (1/1/17)
Chicago Tribune: Carpooling Picked Up with UberPool, Lyft Line and Via (12/30/16)
Shareable: How Small Cities Can Get Big Benefits from Flexible Bikesharing (12/22/16)
89.3 KPCC: LA to Get Electric Carsharing Program in Low-Income Neighborhoods (12/20/16)
LA Thrives: 3 Ways LA’s Electric Carsharing Pilot is Setting the Urban Sustainability Agenda (12/16/16)
Studio City Patch: Electric Carsharing Is Coming to Los Angeles (12/13/16)
MyNewsLA.com: New Ways to Rideshare: Electric Car’s Coming to Disadvantaged (12/13/16)
Aurora Beacon-News: From The Community: Trends in Transportation Come into Focus at Sustainability Network’s Forum (12/9/16)
Streetsblog USA: Talking Headways Podcast: A Bus Full of People Should Go Ahead of a Tesla (12/1/16)
Streetsblog USA: Talking Headways Podcast: Will the Autonomous Future Be Heaven or Hell? (11/22/16)
ZappaWheels: Recap of Shared Use Mobility Summit 2016 (10/26/16)
Co.Exist: L.A. Could Remove 100,000 Cars Over Five Years (10/26/16)
Streetsblog Chicago: CDOT Vets and Other Leaders Discuss the Future of Urban Transportation (10/24/16)
Public Policy Forum: Back from the Future (of Transportation) (10/24/16)
Move Forward: Connecting Public Transit and Shared Mobility (10/24/16)
Mobility Lab: Bringing Transportation Options to Small and Mid-Sized Cities (10/20/16)
WGN: New Ride-Sharing Service Turns Your Car into a Rental Car (10/19/16)
Mobility Lab: How Does Actual Sharing Fit into the Sharing Economy? (10/18/16)
Team Red: 3 Questions for Sharon Feigon, Executive Director, Shared-Use Mobility Center (10/13/16)
Streetsblog Chicago: Ex-CDOT Chief Klein Discusses Proposed Ban on Self-Driving Cars in Chicago (10/10/16)
Passenger Transport: New Plan to Reduce Cars on LA County Roads (9/23/16)
Santa Monica Daily Press: The Transportation Revolution Has Begun (9/20/16)
Streetsblog LA: Plan Calls for Car-Share, Bike-Share, Ride-Hail to Reduce Cars in L.A. County (9/16/16)
TimeOut Los Angeles: 100,000 fewer cars in L.A. in 5 years? Here’s how it can happen. (9/15/16)
CurbedLA: Can LA get 100,000 cars off the road in the next five years? (9/15/16)
KPCC Southern California Public Radio: Officials want to take 100,000 cars off Los Angeles County’s streets in 5 years (9/14/16)
FOX 11 LA: City plans to get 100,000 cars off the road in five years (9/14/16)
Cities Speak: 5 Opportunities Cities Can Pursue to Expand Shared Mobility (9/12/16)
Chicago Reporter: Pilot program aims to bring car sharing to low-income neighborhoods (9/7/16)
The Denver Post: Centennial Teams Up with Lyft for Free Rides to Light Rail Station (8/15/16)
The Stranger: Seattle Beats Atlanta in Cars Per Household (8/3/16)
Streetsblog USA: Seattleites Own More Cars Than Atlantans, and Other Surprising Comparisons (7/29/16)
Streetsblog Chicago: Toolkit Will Help Cities Bring Shared Mobility to Low-Income Neighborhoods (7/27/16)
Streetsblog USA: Report: Access to Car-Share and Bike-Share Is Worse in Communities of Color (7/27/16)
Shareable: New Toolkit Helps Cities Bolster Shared-Use Mobility Programs and Policies (7/25/16)
Route Fifty: Minority Neighborhoods Benefit From Shared Mobility Systems (7/25/16)
The Guardian: US car sharing service kept 28,000 private cars off the road in 3 years (7/23/16)
Next City: New Tool Could Help Cities Make Ride-sharing Systems More Equitable (7/22/16)
CityLab: Here’s How Many Cars This Carsharing Service Killed (7/20/16)
The Transit Wire: New Toolkit Helps Cities Assess Shared-Use Mobility Options (7/19/16)
Curbed: Better Rideshare Services Could Save Americans Five Million A Year (7/18/16)
Chicago Tribune: Peer-to-Peer Carsharing Growing Fast in Chicago (7/17/16)
Chicago Tribune: Driverless Cars Could Improve Safety, but Impact on Jobs… (7/4/16)
Movmi: Shared Mobility Research Analysis (6/28/16)
Streetsblog USA: Talking Headways Podcast: Sharing (Your Bike, Car, Bus) is Caring (6/9/16)
Crain’s Chicago: General Motors Brings its Carsharing Initative Downtown (5/19/16)
KIRO 7: Why is Paying for Mass Transit So Difficult in Seattle…(5/9/16)
Urban Land: Expansion of Bike Infrastructure Fuels Growth of Multimodal Transit (4/29/16)
CityMinded: 27 Actions Cities Can Take to Realize the Benefits of Shared Mobility (4/11/16)
CityLab: Why Transit Agencies are Finally Embracing Uber (4/11/16)
NextCity: Why Uber and Cities Should Give Peace a Chance (4/11/16)
Government Technology: Ride-sharing Services Boost Transit Ridership, Study Says (3/23/16)
Governing: Study- ‘Sharing’ Services Boost Transit (3/22/16)
Washington Business Journal: Uber, Lyft Seen as Complement…For Public Transit (3/21/16)
Planetizen: Does Ride-Hailing Complement Public Transit–Or Vice Versa? (3/17/16)
The Transit Wire: New Mobility Options Support Transit, Research Finds (3/16/16)
Entrepreneur: Uber and Lyft Will Collaborate With Public Transportation So That You Don’t Have to Own a Car (3/16/16)
The Verge: Uber and Lyft Just Got a Big Boost From The Public Transportation World (3/15/16)
Entrepreneur: Alcohol Drives Use of Uber and Lyft (3/15/16)
Entrepreneur: Transportation ‘Supersharers’ are also Supersavers (3/15/16)
Microsoft Chicago: Big Shoulders: Sharon Feigon, Executive Director of the Shared-Use Mobility Center (3/8/16)
Shareable: Think Tank SUMC Releases Shared Mobility Guide for Cities (1/20/16)
The Guardian: How Big Cities are Finding Innovative Ways…to Ditch Cars (1/19/16)
Chicago Tribune: Ridesharing, Apps Could Fill Remaining Gaps in Chicago Transit (1/15/16)
Chicago Tribune: Transit Agencies Moving Over to Make Room for Ride-share Services (11/23/15)
DNAInfo: Over 150,000 Cars Signed Up for Uber, Lyft… (11/23/15)
Energy Fuse: Live from Los Angeles: Electric Mobility for Low Income Residents (11/9/15)
New York Times: Ride-sharing Apps Bring Back Car-Pooling (11/6/15)
The Guardian: Still No Flying Cars? The Future of Transit Promises Something Even Better (11/2/15)
Seattle Magazine: Does Car Sharing Fill Transportation Gaps for Seattle Drivers? (10/26/15)
National League of Cities (NLC): How Cities Can Harness the Benefits of Shared Mobility (10/24/15)
Next City: No Millennial Branding Scheme for this L.A.-Carshare Plan (10/23/15)
Mobility Lab: Five Big Lessons to Help Small Cities Expand Shared Mobility (10/23/15)
Ride Like the Wind Blog: A Future of Personalized Transportation (10/5/15)
Green Tech Chicago: Moving Together… (10/5/15)
Streetsblog USA: Choose Your Own Utopia: What Will We Make of Driverless Cars? (10/2/15)
GoKid Mobi: 10 Things I Learned at the National Shared Mobility Summit…. (10/2/15)
WGN TV: What Does the Future Hold For Shared Mobility? (9/30/15)
Forbes: Autonomous Vehicles: Good for the Climate, Commute… (9/30/15)
Forbes: Autonomous Vehicles Arrive in 3 Years, in 3 Stages (9/30/15)
Forbes: Automakers Hop on the Anti-Car Bandwagon (9/30/15)
Streetsblog Chicago: How Shared Mobility Companies Learn from their Mistakes (9/30/15)
Buffalo Business First: Buffalo CarShare to be Acquired by Zipcar (9/30/15)
MZ Strategies: Bringing the Shared Economy Revolution to America’s Medium Sized Cities (9/29/15)
GlobeNewswire: Shared-Use Mobility Center Launches Trade Ally Program... (8/31/15)
Energy Fuse: In Los Angeles, Bringing EV Carsharing to Low Income… (8/14/15)
CleanTechnica: Low-Income Electric Carsharing Comes To LA…(8/13/15)
Built in Chicago: Is Chicago Becoming a Hub for Car-related Apps? (8/12/15)
Chicago Inno: Getaround Wants You to Rent Your Car to Your Neighbor in Chicago (8/11/15)
Chicago Tribune: A Neighborly Approach to Sharing Your Car Kicks Off (8/10/15)
Evanston Now: New Car-share Concept Debuts in Evanston (8/10/15)
National Journal: Where Electric Cars Will Drive Around In Poor Neighborhoods (8/10/15)
ENS: Electric Car-Sharing Opens for Low-Income Angelenos (8/8/15)
CityLab: Coming Soon to America: One Fare Card for All Transit (8/7/15)
Huffington Post: Poor Neighborhoods In L.A. To Get Green Car-Share Program (8/6/15)
GovTech: L.A. to Launch Car-Sharing Pilot Project for the Poor (8/4/15)
CityLab: Uber and Public Transit Are Trying to Get Along (8/3/15)
CurbedLA: Cheaper, Lower-Emission Carsharing Coming to Low-Income Los Angeles… (7/31/15)
CityLab: L.A.’s Bold Plan to Bring Car-Share to the Poor (7/30/15)
EfficientGov: Shared-Use Mobility Center to Help Lead $1.6 Million Pilot… (7/30/15)
Yes! Magazine: LA’s New Car Share Program Offers Electric Vehicles to Low-Income… (7/30/15)
Chicago Tribune: FlightCar Will Rent Your Car in Return for Free Airport Parking (7/28/15)
Senate CA: L.A. Selected to Debut Electric Vehicle Car-Sharing Project (7/24/15)
NBC4 Southern California: $1.6M Electric Car-Sharing Program Coming to LA (7/24/15)
Los Angeles Business Journal: L.A. Gets Pilot Carsharing Program (7/24/15)
Move LA: LA Gets $1.6 Million For Low-Income Carsharing (7/24/15)
MyNewsLA: Low income? Electric, hybrid cars for you in sharing plan (7/24/15)
Shareable: $1.6 Million Low-Income Carsharing Pilot Headed to L.A. (7/19/15)
Governing: A Zipcar That Poor People Can Afford (6/8/15)
Chicago Tribune: Chicago Slated to Have New Carsharing Service this Spring (1/28/15)
Politico: Shared Use Mobility Center Launches (10/7/14)
Streetsblog Chicago: Transpo Leaders Brainstorm at SUMC Launch (10/3/14)
Community Transportation: Shared-Use Mobility Center Working to Promote Better Integration with Transit (10/1/2014)
Urban Omnibus: Exploring and Collaborating on Shared-Use Mobility Services (7/10/2014)
MarketWired: Shared-Use Mobility Center Formed…(7/10/2014)
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