On-demand ride trendsetter Via has acquired street design software company Remix for $100 million to combine its transportation software prowess with Via’s transit tech expertise to better crack the multimodal mobility code for cities and transit agencies worldwide.

Free2move’s carsharing service is heading to the Rose City with 200 Jeep Renegades as the company expands in North America, offering a new shared mobility option to Portlanders.

Carpooling points may look like bus stops, but they’re part of a French initiative to reduce rush hour traffic by matching up carpool riders and drivers—with the help of a little wayfinding and an app or an SMS.

900,000 New Yorkers travel on two wheels, so the next mayor of New York will need to take biking seriously if they want to succeed in moving the city towards a sustainably robust transportation future. The Gothamist lists how the candidates stack up on cycling after a forum held by Bike New York.

Bikeshare equity cannot be an afterthought. To remind us of best practices as the weather warms, the Better Bike Share Partnership compiles 10 policy briefs from the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University.

BMW and Daimler-backed mobility player Free Now will soon offer mobility company Tier’s electric scooters and mopeds in its app, starting in Germany and France and rolling out across the EU in the summer.

AI, deep learning networks, and autonomous tech development will be on everyone’s minds at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference that features presentations from company heads at Zoox, Audi, Cruise, NVIDIA, and Locomation on April 12-16.

Micromobility infrastructure is heating up in Paris with the installation of “150 dock, lock and charge points” created by innovator DUCKT to help organize scooter operations and street-space management.

Our friends over at City Tech Collaborative have teamed up with the Chicago Transit Authority, Microsoft, Intel, and Genetec to pilot advanced passenger-counting tech using various anonymized data sets and analytics for the 79th street bus line.

Traffic congestion may have decreased by nearly 50% in major US cities during 2020, but the increase in traffic-related deaths, a spike up of 24% compared to 2019, shows that when people have the chance to drive faster on emptier streets, they will.

Parking meters—a great urban recovery tool? Well, maybe. As Strong Towns suggests, cities can leverage existing spaces to streamline parking management and use the profits to fix ailing budgets or fund sustainable urban development.

Pop-Up City encourages you to dive into the initiatives that are turning urban swimming into a community-revitalizing movement to reclaim the waterways for public access.