New mobility: Today’s technology and policy landscape
International Council on Clean Transportation, July 1, 2017
The phrase “new mobility” has come into widespread use to name the results of the intersection of new technologies with new and existing business models. The dawning age of new mobility has the potential to revolutionize the transportation of people and goods. The effects could include improved transportation system efficiency, cleaner air, and better quality of life. Or the results could be just the opposite: more traffic congestion, dirtier air, and erosion to quality of life. The ability of government regulators at all levels to plan for and shape a rapidly changing transportation system, rather than reacting to new developments after the fact, will largely determine the environmental and societal outcomes.