Los Angeles mayor unveils first P3 to incubate mobility solutions

Source: Smart Cities Dive Author: Chris Teale Published: Nov. 15 2019

Dive Brief:

  • Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the city has created the Urban Movement Labs, a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership (P3) to accelerate innovation in mobility.

  • In a speech at the CoMotion LA conference, Garcetti said the labs will look to expand new mobility solutions, offer job training and workforce development for local residents and provide a proving ground with four different environments to test solutions. He said the aim is to "develop, test and build transportation solutions" to help the city reduce its reliance on single-occupancy vehicles, and also to find new mobility options that can translate to other cities around the world.

  • Partners on the project include the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), Los Angeles World Airports, the Port of Los Angeles, Avis Budget Group, the L.A. Cleantech Incubator (LACI), Lyft, Verizon and Waymo.

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Chelsea McCullough