Multimobility: Micro to Mass Transit

This topical project focused on emerging and speculative mobility options in order to understand and anticipate their impact on future streets—the social, commercial, and circulatory heart of urban design.  The project found a range of urban transportation technologies now expanding options between pedestrian and car.  These modes included scooters, bikes, streetcars, autonomous fleet vehicles, hyperloop, and high speed rail.  SWA researchers produced a deck of cards with each transportation mode including speed, emissions, and ridership, which summer students used as a tool to design new street sections and higher density blocks integrating changing technologies, varying speeds, and multiple users.  Research field trips in Orange County and Los Angeles were also a testing bed for locally available novel mobility options in situ.  This project contributed to the SWA Summer Studio led by the Laguna Beach Studio.