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Private Sector Transportation Technology

This project tracks private sector transportation technology adoption in California across four key technologies: Micro-mobility, Transportation Network Companies (TNC), High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes, and Electric Vehicle (EV) charging access. The interactive graph below shows adoption of these technologies at the city level, because cities regulate the provision of these technologies by private vendors.[1]For HOT lanes, city and state governments contract with private providers. Cities initiate adoption rather than manage implementation. Click on the name of each technology to access an interactive dashboard which displays correlations between technology adoption and key demographic characteristics, including income and jurisdiction type.

Description of Key Technologies

Close-up of an electric vehicle charging station connector plugged into a charging port with a blurred outdoor background.
Electric Vehicle Charging: Infrastructure that provides electricity to plug-in EVs, often located at businesses and private vendor charging hubs.
Freeway Express Lane sign in San Ramon, East San Francisco Bay Area, displaying the next exits and the applicable fees, plus a message about the new CAV (Clean Air Vehicle) toll.
HOT/Express Lanes: A separate highway lane reserved for toll-paying users and high-occupancy vehicles. Used to mitigate congestion.
Two OKAI Panther ES800 electric scooters parked side by side in the middle of an open road.
Micro-mobility: Shared lightweight vehicles such as scooters and bikes offered by vendors including Lime, Jump, and Bird.
The iconic Uber logo on an iPhone screen
Transportation Network Companies (TNC): Ride-sharing platforms such as Uber that use a web app to match individual riders with nearby drivers.

Private Sector Transportation Technology Summary Map

Methodology: This data is current as of March 2021, and covers all 482 municipalities in California. Data on electric vehicle charging stations was obtained from the Department of Energy and cross referenced with publicly available data from Charge Hub for completeness and measures the number of EV charging stations in a city. Data on micro-mobility was collected from the websites of each provider operating in California and contains data on whether or not a range of micro mobility vendors operate in each California city. Data on transportation network company services covers Uber and Lyft, and we compiled the list of cities in each service area from vendors’ websites. We leveraged available geospatial data on HOT lane coverage from the California Department of Transportation to identify cities through which HOT lanes pass.

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↑1 For HOT lanes, city and state governments contract with private providers. Cities initiate adoption rather than manage implementation.