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Item GIS-Based Comprehensive Shared Micromobility Station Siting Optimization for Small Urban Areas(2023) DeBruin, HannahShared micromobility travel modes such as dockless e-scooters and bikeshare programs have become increasingly popular in the United States in the last decade because of their potential to improve multi-modal accessibility within communities. Smaller urbanized areas with lower population densities and fewer resources for system planning, operation, and maintenance present unique challenges with siting optimal station/service area locations. This research develops a comprehensive GIS-based methodology for optimizing micromobility stations/service area locations using available and rasterized geospatial data to capture bikeshare demand indicators. Inputs are prioritized by overall importance according to the results of a survey of transportation professionals, with weights calculated by an analytic hierarchy process. These different factors are combined to create a new spatial index value to identify hotspots for candidate station/service area locations, which can be further analyzed to choose optimal locations based on the budgeted quantity of station/service area locations and ideal spacing between stations/service areas. The case study of the methodology is presented on a bikeshare station siting study in Iowa City, Iowa using data from the Metropolitan Planning Organization of Johnson County. This research seeks to improve shared micromobility station/service area planning to better orient service to a variety of transportation goals including regular/commuting use, recreational use, equity, first/last mile connection to transit, and operational partnership opportunities. Multimodal travel times and job accessibility in the study area are evaluated both before and after the introduction of bikeshare, and both greatly improve with the introduction of optimal stations. Public agencies could expect to benefit from this comprehensive methodology because it uses easily obtainable data sources and provides the flexibility to weight the importance of factors differently in order to fit their communities’ specific transportation goals.Item Shared-Mobility Public-Private Partnerships in Minnesota: A Resource Guide(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2022) Greenberg, Gillian, Ian O'Dowd, and Emma WesterlundThis project was completed as part of a 2022–2023 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). MnDOT promotes the growth of innovative shared-mobility options in Minnesota. Shared mobility services offer an opportunity to provide better overall mobility and quality of life, especially for those who do not have access to a private automobile due to income, age, or physical ability. As these services grow, cities and transit agencies need to understand how to approach partnerships with shared mobility providers to achieve the best results for their communities. MnDOT requested assistance creating a public-private partnerships (P3) guide to increase public sector knowledge of these types of agreements and support local communities in providing shared mobility options. MnDOT project lead Elliott McFadden worked with a multidisciplinary team of RCP Scholars to interview and survey shared-mobility professionals and providers in Minnesota to learn about best practices for developing successful P3s that benefit both cities and shared-mobility service providers, and assembled their findings into a draft guide. The students' final report is available.