Los Angeles DOT, considered by many a "thought leader"
in transit, has added to the list of companies permitted to run scooters and
has over 3000 currently permitted, with thousands more headed for the streets.
The city, as we learned from Britta, wants to get into that company user
data. Some, like Uber and Lyft, had raised privacy concerns in
defense. The LA Department of Transportation has adapted restrictions for
customer data protection, access limitation, security, credentials, and more.
Here's the source link:
LA's may be the most substantive set of
city policies. I don't have a link yet. Maybe someone at DDOT does?
Progressive, west-side cities Santa Monica and Venice have
gotten off to a "....collision
course with local regulators.....In December, the city of Santa Monica filed a
criminal case against Bird, accusing it of operating without proper permits and
owing more than $6,000 in fines. On Wednesday, it agreed to pay more than
$300,000 as part of a settlement with the city; it also agreed to “run a weeklong
public safety education campaign on the Big Blue Bus.”
...Officials say “...we’re
supportive of the concept of Bird. They just need to operate lawfully and
safely.”
Atlanta may have passed some pretty stringent laws, not only prohibiting
scooter and bike users from using sidewalks (and considering a $1,000 fine for user who do so) ; they also require operators to pay
$12,000 for permits for up to 500 vehicles. (Each e-scooter after the
first 500 will cost companies $50). also per the new laws, scooters will
also be restricted to a 15-mile-per-hour speed limit, which Uber reps say will
not impact the JUMP bike program that offers shareable, electric-powered,
ostensibly faster bicycles for a fee similar to scooters.
NACTO’s Guidelines for the Regulation
and Management of Shared Active Transportation do provide standards for cities
to manage companies that are not otherwise overseen or selected through
competitive procurement processes or contracts, and sets minimum standards that
all cities should require for managing this new industry on city streets,
including:
·
permitting
frameworks,
·
city/company
communication mechanisms,
·
standards
for communicating with the public,
·
data
requirements,
·
minimum
equipment safety standards, and
·
customer
privacy standards.
As far as the scooter/bike companies themselves, WSJ says several are now levying fines
on miscreant users. How they police this I don't know, but assume it's with API
locational data.
-JEC
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