Micromobility

by Ning Shi, VP of Engineering at Zoba. Ning loves distributed systems, high performance data processing and analytics, and can be found on Twitter at @ihsgnin. It’s my pleasure to share that Zoba has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification, making Zoba the industry’s first fleet optimization platform to receive…

From 2021 to 2022, I conducted a proof-of-concept project to evaluate Twitter data with sentiment analysis to better understand attitudes towards electric scooters in the UK, as part of Arup’s involvement in the UK National E-Scooter Trial. View the full report and dashboard slides here Context: Arup’s Transport Analytics team were…

Tech that could be enabling me is impairing me instead. — Note: The opinions in this article are solely those of its author. In September, I was waiting to cross the Embarcadero in San Francisco. A woman standing nearby asked me, “Is that the wheelchair that can climb stairs?” I shook my head. (I hadn’t gotten this one before, so I…

By: Joel Epstein Paved nirvana. That is what a childhood friend would have called them. I am talking about the protected bike lanes or ciclovias that San Juan has created for bike and scooter riders in Viejo San Juan (Old San Juan), Puerto Rico’s Spanish Colonial gem. …

By Stephen Coulter and Krystyna Weston, Co-Founders of Zipidi Canberra may be known for its politics and public servants, but did you know that it was once the scooter racing capital of Australia? It’s true! In the 1920s, patrons at…

Net Rides Per Deployment is a new metric developed by Zoba to measure the true productivity of deployments by accounting for the effects of ride cannibalization. This post builds on our previous post which introduced nRPD by explaining how operators can calculate this metric in more detail. The Challenge of Ride Cannibalization Moving vehicles around…

Its late afternoon and I have just managed to get to my electric scooter parked on the third floor of the car park. …

We’ve been very thankful to receive great feedback from delegates to the first annual Micromobility Conference, held from 25th-26th November. If you were a delegate and haven’t yet completed the feedback survey, then please do so as soon as possible as we’re now compiling and reviewing all feedback to make…

Canadian Tom Flood made a huge impact with his presentation at last month’s Micromobility Conference & Expo in Sydney. The man behind the powerful messages and images is revealed in this issue of our influencers! transcripts, as we continue to look back at Series 1 of the influencers! podcast series. …