Fifteen transport and technology companies signed the Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities today, pledging to prioritize people over vehicles, lower emissions, promote equity and encourage data sharing, among other goals. The companies include: BlaBlaCar, Citymapper, Didi, Keolis, LimeBike, Lyft, Mobike, Motivate, Ofo, Ola, Scoot Networks, Transit, Uber, Via, and Zipcar.

City streets are a finite resource that are getting increasingly congested and polluted. The 15 companies that signed the principles have a massive impact on how people live, work and play in cities across the world. Together they account for 77 million passenger trips per day and inform the travel decisions of 10 million people each day.

The Shared Mobility Principles provide a clear vision for the future of cities and create alignment between the city governments, private companies and NGOs working to make them more livable.

The principles were developed by Robin Chase, Zipcar co-Founder, and a consortium of leading city and transport organizations including: the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), Transportation for America (T4America), Rocky Mountain Institute, Shared-Use Mobility Center, and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

"Our goal is to align cities, the private sector and civil society around a shared vision to ensure we harness the good and avoid the bad of new business models and technologies," said Chase.

The Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities:

1.    We plan our cities and their mobility together.
2.    We prioritize people over vehicles.
3.    We support the shared and efficient use of vehicles, lanes, curbs, and land.
4.    We engage with stakeholders.
5.    We promote equity.
6.    We lead the transition towards a zero-emission future and renewable energy.
7.    We support fair user fees across all modes.
8.    We aim for public benefits via open data.
9.    We work towards integration and seamless connectivity.
10.  We support that autonomous vehicles in dense urban areas should be operated only in shared fleets.

To learn more about the principles, visit www.sharedmobilityprinciples.org.