Voi e-bikes rolled out in Cambridge and Peterborough
Residents in Cambridge and Peterborough will be able to hire Voi’s e-bikes at specific locations around the two towns, with discounts available for NHS and Emergency Services staff.
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Residents in Cambridge and Peterborough will be able to hire Voi’s e-bikes at specific locations around the two towns, with discounts available for NHS and Emergency Services staff.
Voi's investment fund will provide a cash injection for several projects intended to make the company's operations safer and more sustainable.
TfL, along with London Boroughs, hopes that the trial will help it learn more about the fast-growing mode of transport in a bid to implement a more permanent scheme going forward.
Intelligent Transport’s Sam Mehmet gives an overview of some of the confirmed participants in the UK’s shared e-scooter trials, and hears from those with plans to take part in the near future.
Voi's year-long e-scooter trial in Liverpool is one of more than a dozen Department for Transport-backed pilots taking place across the UK.
The trial will launch to the public in Birmingham and Coventry on 10 September and up to 10,000 e-scooters are to be rolled-out across the region soon after.
The operators have committed to higher levels of sustainability standards and practices across e-scooter manufacturing, operations, end of life and lifecycle emissions.
The service integration will become available in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich, designed to offer users a more diverse range of mobility options.
Members will be able to select a scooter to ride for their journey, as well as for the last mile of a longer BlaBla carpool or bus trip, designed to power a convenient and environmentally efficient door-to-door journey.
Kristina Hunter Nilsson, from e-scooter firm Voi, and micromobility expert Welmoed Neijmeijer, formerly of Voi, discuss where the scooter operator has come from and what needs to come next from cities that are serious about redressing their modal split.
The WeAllMove platform is currently offering services from 58 mobility providers and operators, such as Enterprise Rent-A-Car, GoVolt, Hive, Rhingo and Tier.
In light of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and consequential drops in ridership, mobility services, such as taxis and e-bike and e-scooter schemes, have been forced to suspend operations and find ways to adapt their offerings.
The Life Cycle Assessment is said to provide a case study of how e-scooters are being used in European cities, and how their adoption rates are impacting city life.
A new study by the International Transport Forum has examined safety aspects associated with e-scooters and other micro-vehicles, and has outlined 10 key safety recommendations.
Marseille has become the first major European city to complete a tender for e-scooter operations, and each operator will be able to deploy 2,000 e-scooters each.