Project Description

Leading Mobility co-authored a Pan-Canadian study on how prepared Canadian Municipalities are to Facilitate Mobility Innovation for Transport Canada. This was the first study of its kind to assess how Canada’s eight largest cities will adapt to the future—particularly with innovations like ride hailing, car sharing, bike and scooter share, on-demand transit, electronic fare collection, electrification, and self-driving vehicles.

The project team conducted municipal policy scans for eight of the country’s largest urban centres, including regulatory documents, policy documents and guidelines, council reports, and budgets. Provincial policy scans were also performed in cases where policy interdependencies were identified. The project team interviewed more than two dozen key municipal urban planning and transportation planning staff from across Canada for added firsthand perspectives. 

Based on data and findings, the project team created a new tool called the Municipal Mobility Index, which maps how municipalities currently use transportation projects to support sustainability, innovate with technology, and advance the public good.

The report was released at the Scaling-up New Mobility Innovations in Canadian Cities roundtable hosted by the Conference Board of Canada in February 2022.