Partnership Trend: Scooters & E-Bike Companies

What is happening? Scooter companies are joining forces with their e-bike brethren as scooters become more ubiquitous.

Why is this important? As scooters are considered like e-bikes, they become part of the solution for micro mobility. This allows scooters to be at train stops and bus stops to helps people get to their destination, but also includes regulations and data sharing/data protection/data gathering.

How will this be important? “The places where we’ve seen the most successful programs are those where MaaS [mobility as a service] and multimodality doesn’t exist independently, but is part of a broader initiative to repurpose streets, repurpose parking, away from car utilization alone,” said  Ashwini Chhabra, chief public policy officer at TIER Mobility, the world’s largest shared micromobility operator.

Governing | Scooter Partnerships Take Root as Micromobility Expands