Global Coalition of Cities Launches the ‘Open Mobility Foundation’
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A new city-governed non-profit, the OMF brings together academic, commercial, advocacy and municipal stakeholders to help cities develop and deploy new digital mobility tools, and provide the governance needed to efficiently manage them. “Technology can play a strong role to transform the relationship amongst multi-modal transportation, retail, hospitality, real estate, and a smart city with a common digital map and understanding of infrastructure usage,” said Tara Prakriya, Partner Group Program Manager of MCVP and Mobility at Microsoft. And because private companies scale best when cities can offer a consistent playbook for innovation, the OMF aims to nurture those services that provide the highest benefit to the largest number of people, from sustainability to safety outcomes. “We’re excited to join the Open Mobility Foundation and work together with other leading cities to ensure we have well-designed tools to provide us with basic data we need to manage traffic and congestion on our streets,” said Chris Warner, Director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation. " “The Open Mobility Foundation is the latest example of how cities are collaborating both to solve the world’s toughest challenges in novel and creative ways and scale solutions through new norms and instruments,” said Bruce Katz, Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University and a Partner at Accelerator for America.
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