This partnership illustrates a unique approach to encouraging the use of mobility data in project proposals and execution, especially when seeking funding or approval from cities and private partners. By targeting nonprofits, the fellowship strategically places its tools in the hand of nonprofit advocates that will support and pursue safety and infrastructure goals shared by Spin and its partners. This announcement follows recent progress in Spin's Streets program, designed to work with communities in making streets more "safe, livable and just." Earlier this month, Spin contracted with Team Better Block to transform an intersection in Salt Lake City, making it more "visible" and "user-friendly" for scooter riders and cyclists. Just last week in Denver, the company participated in an annual Park(ing) day event and displayed multimodal parklets that were conceptualized by local urbanists and citizens. StreetLight Data and Populus are no strangers to encouraging micromobility and community engagement, either. StreetLight Data is consistently improving its analytics offerings to increase insights into the vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian data that planners collect, while Populus has released a host of mobility tools to assist data-sharing between bike and scooter operators and cities. By partnering with these platforms, Spin says it hopes to see "data used even more widely in pursuit [of] safe and livable streets."
Spin , the e - commerce subsidiary of Google , has partnered with analytics company StreetLight Data and mobility data platform Populus to develop tools for non - profit organisations to collect and assess transportation information . The data would then be used to inform project proposals and infrastructure aims shared by Spin . The company recently collaborated with Team Better Cycling to make a Salt Lake City crossroad easier for scooter riders and cyclists .