Uber’s global head of urban mobility, Colin Tooze, spoke at the 2019 Asia Pacfic Cities Summit in Brisbane, saying Uber wants to see a shift from private cars to a mix of shared modes using energy-conserving technology.
Mr Tooze says an international transport forum study estimated if every private vehicle on the road was shared, we would need only 3 per cent of the vehicles “clogging” our streets today, and would still be able to move the same number of people.
Mr Tooze says we need policies making sharing smaller, more efficient vehicles the default, and that means we need to embrace planning and regulations that put people over cars.