NUMO New Mobility Atlas Update — February 22, 2021
Time for a refresh. We’ve updated theNUMO New Mobility Atlasto reflect changes to the dockless shared mobility landscape in cities around the world.
Here’s the lay of the land…
644 unique cities with dockless micromobility 🏙️
1,172 total dockless operators* 🚲🛵🛴
684 electric scooter operators 🛴
369 shared bike** operators 🚲
119 moped operators 🛵
Here's what's new...
210 cities welcomed dockless, electric shared mobility for the first time
79 cities no longer have any dockless micromobility
297 more operations since the Atlas’ last update
523 new operations total
222 operations ceased to exist
And here are some highlighted insights...
271 cities relaunched operations after they were suspended because of COVID-19
With a total of 14 service operators (that’s seven more since the last update), Barcelona now is the city with the most dockless mobility operators
E-scooters are exploding in Europe, with 109 more cities adding scooter operations since the last update
Shared bikes haven’t yet recovered from the effects of the pandemic in North America; only 25 cities have dockless shared bikes, compared to 81 this time last year
Since summer 2020, Seattle has gone from zero service operators to five
View the latest changes to the NUMO New Mobility Atlas here.
*‘Operator’ refers to private operators of dockless, shared electric scooter, bicycle and/or moped services
**As of right now, the New Mobility Atlas reflects dockless shared bike operations
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