5 Years in Review — a letter from our new CEO Dear Remix customers, As we wrap up 2019 and enter an era with new Remix leadership, we feel overwhelming gratitude for our customers who believed in us early and have continued to help us learn, grow, and enrich our technology. During this holiday season, I’d like to celebrate our five years with five customer stories that made a huge impact on us. Remix’s four co-founders five years ago at the Code for America office. (L-R) Dan Getelman, Sam Hashemi, Tiffany Chu, Danny Whalen.2015: Turning an idea into a company. When Oregon DOT saw what we built ..read more

We’re excited to announce new leadership at Remix: Nichole Jordan, our new COO, and Tiffany Chu, our new CEO.As Remix turns five years old, we’re excited to enter the next chapter for our company. We’ve seen incredible momentum since our founding in 2014, from working with a single transit agency in the United States to partnering with 325+ cities and transit agencies across the world today. We’re proud that our customers have chosen our platform to bring together the complete transportation picture and help them build more livable cities. As Remix looks ahead to the next five years, we are ex ..read more

Remix is excited to announce that we have been selected as one of seventeen companies to join Elemental Excelerator’s 8th Cohort! Elemental is a startup accelerator dedicated to improving the energy, water, transportation, and agriculture systems that impact people’s lives. Our selection from more than 800 worthy applicants makes us more determined than ever to deliver on our mission: to create more livable cities. Remix was founded in 2014 by Tiffany Chu, Dan Getelman, Danny Whalen and Sam Hashemi following a project they built during their Code for America fellowships: a simple way for San F ..read more

Drive Bus Ridership with City-Transit Agency Collaboration: Announcing Remix Streets + Transit Metro Transit’s C-Line BRT in Minneapolis (left), and IndyGo’s new Red Line BRT in Indianapolis (right)Announcing Remix Streets + Transit = Better Bus Rapid Transit Reading the news these days, it is easy to think public transit is in a death spiral in the US. Stories like this one in the Wall Street Journal highlight the challenges riders face in Los Angeles with tales of buses slogging through streets congested by notorious traffic jams, and commuters lamenting how it can take three times as long t ..read more

By Tiffany Chu and Rachel Zack Several months ago our advisor, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, wrote a first draft of a Practical City Guide to Mobility Data Licensing for Remix. In the months since, we’ve learned a lot in working with cities across the country on mobility data licensing, and wanted to share some thoughts and insights based on those close relationships. Background Cities have always collected data to understand the impact of transportation services offered to the public. Historically, this data may have been as simple as a log of trips as written down by a taxi driver. Today, transport ..read more

For the past several months, Remix has benefited from the wisdom and advice offered to us by Jascha Franklin-Hodge, the former Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston. Jascha has helped Remix develop deeper expertise on data governance as we’ve expanded our business from transit planning into helping cities manage newer forms of shared mobility. We’ve been fortunate that Jascha has chosen to dedicate so much of his time to advising Remix in recent months. As we embark on the autumn season, change is upon us. Jascha announced last week that he will be joining the Open Mobility Foundati ..read more

An Evolving Industry EventYou probably know of the organization UITP (International Association of Public Transport) if you work in transit. For most of the organization’s history, “public transport” was generally understood to mean subsidized bus and rail operations and bus vendors show up to the annual conference with their A-Game. This year was no different in that respect. Autonomous luxury buses were on full display, electric motors were uncased for viewing, and ticketing systems were beeping away, ready for agency staff to check them out. What was different this year, was the presence of ..read more

Why we aggregate dataRemix uses anonymized mobility data to help cities manage public space and plan improvements to a city’s transportation system to maximize safety and equitability. But even anonymized mobility data can be sensitive. Individual trip records could be re-identified by combining anonymized data with other sources of information (such as a database of addresses) or through analysis of travel patterns over time.Remix’s platform is designed to help cities gain insights about vehicles, fleets, and travel patterns, not to track individuals. Remix uses data aggregation so that the i ..read more

Practical Data Visualizations and Custom Layers — Spring 2019As a Remix customer, you and your teams have access to data layers and visualizations that we have seen cities and agencies use to enrich their planning processes, communicate big data, and tell a stronger story. With previous posts on the Remix blog from February 2018 and January 2017, we figured it was time to add another verse to the custom data show & tell. Check out five new and original visualizations being used by customers today.CalEnviroScreen — 3.0Remix now displays the CalEnvironScreen 3.0 data for all of our partners ..read more

When It Comes to Shared Scooter Regulations, Cities Know BestGive cities the tools they need to manage their local transportation systemsA slew of scooter bills are winding through state capitals during this legislative session. Many of the bills contain preemption language, curtailing or eliminating completely city authority to manage and plan scooter share programs. This should concern both cities and consumers — particularly when micromobility (shared bikes, scooters, etc.) is quickly changing the urban transportation landscape and cities are grappling with how to redesign the public right ..read more