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Populus Partners with U.S. DOT to Leverage Innovative Data to Improve Transportation Safety

Populus, the industry-leading platform for cities to manage transportation and mobility services and Merian Ventures portfolio company, will partner with the U.S. DOT to identify opportunities to harness data from some of the 45 million trips it has already processed from shared bikes, electric bikes, and electric scooters to facilitate micromobility management.

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Regina Clewlow, PhD, on Small Scooters and Big Data

Dr. Regina Clewlow, CEO & Co-founder of Populus.ai, a Merian Ventures portfolio company, recently spoke as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center’s Our New Mobility Future thought leadership series.

“We’ve really transitioned from mobility as a product that one buys, typically a car, to mobility as a service, and this is in large part due to the proliferation of these shared business models and the arrival of dockless bikes and scooters," she said.

Micromobility—small, lightweight modes of personal transportation such as scooters and bikes—and their associated data are being used to transform how individuals travel and how cities plan, according to Regina Clewlow, PhD, the CEO and co-founder of micromobility data company Populus.

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