As public, private, and non-profit organizations, we come together to advance shared mobility to confront the climate crisis, redress the inequality in our communities, and ease the cost burdens of transportation for families. We aim to enable integrated networks of clean, shared mobility options that provide equitable access for all, reduce the cost burden of transportation for households, and cut carbon emissions.
The climate crisis and persistent social, economic, and racial inequality are shaped in no small part by how our roads and streets are designed to prioritize cars over people. Transportation generates 30% of US carbon emissions. Shifting to EVs is necessary but will never be enough. More than 35,000 people die each year in road crashes. Black pedestrians are struck and killed twice as often as non-Hispanic White people; Native Americans, four times as often. More of those victims were elderly and more were from low-income communities. Meanwhile, our lowest-income households spend 37 cents of every dollar they earn on transportation, and it costs $7,000 a year to own even a second-hand car. Nearly 1.6 million rural households don’t own a car.
By shared mobility, we mean all the options that free us from our dependence on using our private cars for every trip we have to make. Shared mobility is the systems and infrastructure that allow us to reduce our costs and our carbon emissions by sharing rides and sharing vehicles. Shared mobility services include everything from public transportation to ride-hail, from car-sharing to on-demand responsive microtransit, from shared bikes and scooters to paratransit. Shared mobility infrastructure includes safe sidewalks, protected bike lanes, complete streets, and shared mobility hubs. Shared mobility systems also include the digital and information systems we use to find, access, and use these services.
By giving us more ways to get around, shared mobility can make our streets safer and connect more people to more opportunities. By reducing our need to own and drive (and park) our private cars, shared mobility can help reshape our streets, our towns, and our cities. Shared mobility reinforces more sustainable land-use patterns and helps save our planet.
We hold ourselves accountable for advancing this Shared Mobility Action Agenda so that by 2030, equitable, low-carbon shared mobility will be more convenient, more practical, more available, easier to use, and even more accessible and more affordable than owning or driving a car. We will make our planet healthier, our communities more equitable, and households more prosperous.
Advancing this Shared Mobility 2030 Action Agenda will allow:
households and families to save by reducing the amount of effort and expense they need to spend on transportation. Integrated networks of clean, shared mobility options will connect people to more opportunities – to jobs, healthcare, education, and their community – by providing more ways to get around in both urban and rural areas.
governments to make shared mobility a key pillar of local, state, and federal strategies for decarbonizing the transportation sector and addressing social, economic, and racial inequity.
mobility companies and other private sector players to commit, as a shared mobility sector, to address the climate crisis and persistent social, economic, and racial inequality. The Action Agenda will present a cohesive public/private/nonprofit voice for enabling appropriate public incentives and support.
nonprofits and advocacy groups to convey community needs and desires, drive the climate change and equity agenda, and hold the public and private sectors accountable through clear goals on decarbonization and equity.
Our goals are to make shared mobility:
more reliable, easier to use, and more available
more equitable and accessible
more environmentally sustainable
more economically sustainable
…than driving a car