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On today’s episode Horace and Oliver are joined by Winston Kwon, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Social Innovation at the University of Edinburgh Business School. We discuss mobility poverty, why it matters and the role that micromobility could play in improving access to opportunities.

We also touch on:

- The concept of Universal Basic Mobility (as put forward by Alex Roy) and how micromobility might enable it

- The importance of social inclusion — and how transport, specifically cars, impact it.

- How the homogeneity of suburbs is accelerating their infrastructural decline.

- Which cities/built environments will benefit the most from micromobility and which will be the most negatively impacted.

- Horace revises his estimates for the Total Addressable Market for Micromobility globally.

In today’s episode we unpack more about the latest data on micromobility adoption, what this implies for the total addressable market of micromobility and then run over the details of the upcoming Micromobility California event.

Specifically, we touch on:

- The speed of adoption curves for scooters compared to other technology platforms in the past.

- The environmental impacts that we might be able to imply from using lightweight electric vehicles

- Who will be attending the Micromobility California event, as well as who might find it interesting.

- The details on who will be presenting.

In today’s episode we unpack more about the latest data on micromobility adoption, what this implies for the total addressable market of micromobility and then run over the details of the upcoming Micromobility California event.

Specifically, we touch on:

- The speed of adoption curves for scooters compared to other technology platforms in the past.

- The environmental impacts that we might be able to imply from using lightweight electric vehicles

- Who will be attending the Micromobility California event, as well as who might find it interesting.

- The details on who will be presenting.

In today’s episode we unpack more about the latest data on micromobility adoption, what this implies for the total addressable market of micromobility and then run over the details of the upcoming Micromobility California event.

Specifically, we touch on:

- The speed of adoption curves for scooters compared to other technology platforms in the past.

- The environmental impacts that we might be able to imply from using lightweight electric vehicles.

- Who will be attending the Micromobility California event, as well as who might find it interesting.

- The details on who will be presenting.

Many thanks to Joyride.city, our sponsors for the episode. Joyride does a full stack solution for bike and scooter share systems, allowing companies to focus on what matters for dockless system operators.

As always, a transcript of the episode can be found on our Medium page, at medium.com/micromobility

In today’s show, we examine the role of platforms in micromobilities rise, and what role they might play in furthering adoption.

Specifically, we cover:

- What an entry into the micromobility space might look like for Apple, and how their experience in interface stepchanges puts them at a unique advantage.

- How autonomous cars are analogous to wormholes vs. a more tactile engaging experience of the world with micromobility.

- What a platform built on a micromobiltiy fleet might look like, and what it might enable, and what names we might give to these experiences in the same way that cars have crusing, drivethrus and cinemas.

- The stage of the market, and the parallels to the Playstation vs Xbox and Android vs iOS arguments.

- How the network effects of micromobility sharing platforms are inverse to the traditional car infrastructure.

- Horace introduces his new research paper looking at modal shifts with the introduction of e-mobility in a cities transport mix.

As always, transcript of this show is available on our Medium page.

In today’s show, we examine the role of platforms in micromobility’s rise, and what role they might play in furthering adoption.

Specifically, we cover:

- What an entry into the micromobility space might look like for Apple, and how their experience in interface stepchanges puts them at a unique advantage

- How autonomous cars are analogous to wormholes vs. a more tactile engaging experience of the world with micromobility.

- What a platform built on a micromobiltiy fleet might look like, and what it might enable, and what names we might give to these experiences in the same way that cars have crusing, drivethrus and cinemas.

- The stage of the market, and the parallels to the Playstation vs Xbox argument

- How the network effects of micromobility sharing platforms are inverse to the traditional car infrastructure

- Horace introduces his new research paper looking at modal shifts with the introduction of e-mobility in a cities transport mix.

In today’s show, we examine the role of platforms in micromobility’s rise, and what role they might play in furthering adoption.

Specifically, we cover:

- What an entry into the micromobility space might look like for Apple, and how their experience in interface stepchanges puts them at a unique advantage

- How autonomous cars are analogous to wormholes vs. a more tactile engaging experience of the world with micromobility.

- What a platform built on a micromobiltiy fleet might look like, and what it might enable, and what names we might give to these experiences in the same way that cars have crusing, drivethrus and cinemas.

- The stage of the market, and the parallels to the Playstation vs Xbox argument

- How the network effects of micromobility sharing platforms are inverse to the traditional car infrastructure

- Horace introduces his new research paper looking at modal shifts with the introduction of e-mobility in a cities transport mix.

Micromobility has an addressable market of more than $1.4 trillion dollars annually just in the US, a figure that makes it more valuable than longer distance transport addressable by cars. That's the message in this episode where we run through the talk 'When Micromobility Attacks' that Horace gave at the recent Micromobility Summit in Copenhagen.

We look at:

- how US trip data typically exhibits log-normal disibutions (and an explanation of what this means!)

- how many of the 2 trillion vehicle trips taken in the US annually would potentially be served by micromobility (min 20)

- how Marchetti's constant (one hour of travel a day) relates to micromobility's benefits (min 23)

- how adoption of micromobility would impact car demand, and why this is relevant to automakers (min 26)

- why these high volume, short trips are actually more valuable than average car trips on a dollar basis. (min 30)

- how time spent travelling will actually drive adoption of micromobility in highly congested cities. (min 34)

- Why 3 times more time is spent on short trips than longer trips in vehicles, and the implications for micromobility (min 36)

- The impacts this explosion in micromobility might have on carbon emissions and how we can measure that (min 42)

Be sure to check out the slides here (https://www.slideshare.net/asymco/when-micromobility-attacks) and the transcript on our Medium page.

Micromobility has an addressable market of more than $1.4 trillion dollars annually in the US alone, a figure that makes it more valuable than longer distance transport addressable by cars ($1.1 trillion).

That’s the message in this episode where we run through the talk ‘When Micromobility Attacks’ that Horace gave at the recent Micromobility Summit in Copenhagen. Be sure to check out the slides — have also included the relevant ones below.

We look at:

- How US trip data typically exhibits log-normal distributions (and an explanation of what this means!)

- How many of the 2 trillion vehicle trips taken in the US annually would potentially be served by micromobility

- How Marchetti’s constant (one hour of travel a day) relates to micromobility’s benefits- how adoption of micromobility would impact car demand, and why this is relevant to automakers- why these high volume, short trips are actually more valuable than average car trips on a dollar basis.

- How time spent traveling will actually drive adoption of micromobility in highly congested cities.

- Why 3 times more time is spent on short trips than longer trips in vehicles, and the implications for micromobility

- The impacts this explosion in micromobility might have on carbon emissions and how we can measure that

Micromobility has an addressable market of more than $1.4 trillion dollars annually in the US alone, a figure that makes it more valuable than longer distance transport addressable by cars ($1.1 trillion).

That’s the message in this episode where we run through the talk ‘When Micromobility Attacks’ that Horace gave at the recent Micromobility Summit in Copenhagen. Be sure to check out the slides — have also included the relevant ones below.

We look at:

- How US trip data typically exhibits log-normal distributions (and an explanation of what this means!)

- How many of the 2 trillion vehicle trips taken in the US annually would potentially be served by micromobility

- How Marchetti’s constant (one hour of travel a day) relates to micromobility’s benefits- how adoption of micromobility would impact car demand, and why this is relevant to automakers- why these high volume, short trips are actually more valuable than average car trips on a dollar basis.

- How time spent traveling will actually drive adoption of micromobility in highly congested cities.

- Why 3 times more time is spent on short trips than longer trips in vehicles, and the implications for micromobility

- The impacts this explosion in micromobility might have on carbon emissions and how we can measure that