Pedestrian deaths in the U.S. have soared since 2010 and now represent one in six traffic fatalities. But the danger is not evenly distributed, with great disparities in who the victims are and where they reside. Smart Cities Dive set out to investigate pedestrian safety issues with a team of journalists who, over several months, dug into the data and spoke with city leaders, safety advocates, government organizations and independent experts to understand the problem and what cities are doing t

For some private-sector providers of shared bikes and scooters, 2023 was a year of reckoning, leaving them to face the harsh reality of financial losses, venture funding drying up and bad decisions by both the companies and the cities they contracted with, industry experts told Smart Cities Dive. “A lot of these companies have received tremendous amounts of funding and very high valuations,” said Kersten Heineke, a partner at McKinsey & Co. who co-leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility.

“Public policy will gradually swing in the industry’s favor,” the Chaddick Institute’s 2024 Intercity Bus Review predicts.