Leading the Way with Resilient Mobility
Launched in 2021, RIMI is a 4-year initiative aimed at addressing California’s immediate transportation challenges coming out of the COVID pandemic, while laying a foundation for sustainable, resilient, and equitable mobility solutions. The RIMI research program is organized around three core pillars: carbon neutral transportation, public transit and shared mobility, and emerging transportation technology and Innovation. Equity and jobs serve as cross-cutting themes across the three pillars.
Authors: Susan Shaheen, UC ITS RIMI Director, Professor-In-Residence, UC Berkeley; Laura Podolsky, Executive Director, UC Institute of Transportation Studies
We’re pleased to unveil the Mobility 10x: Accelerating Transportation Innovation in California research magazine, a comprehensive compendium of findings, insights, and actionable research generated by the Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (RIMI) over the last four years.
For more information and to download a digital copy, please visit ucits.org/news/rimi-10x-magazine-accelerating-transportation-innovation-in-california/
The magazine is also available below as a flipbook. Feel free to explore how UC ITS research is helping advance a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable transportation future for California.
The Mobility 10x Summit convened more than 200 leaders from state agencies, regional governments, academia, and industry to accelerate California’s transition toward a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable transportation system. As the capstone event of the Resilient and Innovative Mobility Initiative (RIMI)—a four‐year UC ITS research effort launched in 2021—the summit synthesized extensive research and practitioner insights across ten priority transportation topics, ranging from public transit to automation and carbon-neutral transportation to equity, safety, and resilience. Across the opening and closing plenary discussions and nine breakout sessions, participants examined the structural challenges facing California’s transportation system: declining gas tax revenues, climate‐driven infrastructure damage, uneven public transit ridership recovery, inequitable access to mobility options, and rapid technological change. These challenges are converging at a moment when California must simultaneously meet ambitious climate goals, modernize its transportation funding model, and ensure that mobility systems work for all communities.
