company mobility company. this is helping all of us understand the definition of transportation networks. it's no longer just about an automobile with a driver. as we have more discussions, and as us mayors get on bart to promote the needs that we have in the region, transportation is a regional challenge and the solutions have to be regional. they have to be with our corporate partners as well. so, ideas are coming forth and the nice part about ford is we formed this relationship some time ago when we were trying to get a smart city challenge grant to the feds. but, one of the promises that i think today is a forthcoming is that it wasn't just a partnership that

was fun to be around a grant and was about a partnership about being a smart city and a smart region which will last well beyond the grant. i think, today, were looking at where those solutions we are articulated we put together what smart cities in the future and today ought to be all about. that is, regionalism with our partners, but having alternative modes that get us the first mile, but also talk about the last mile of everybody's trick. this is what we get to do today. i'm very proud of this partnership with ford with the mobility sector, with her innovation team them up but also working in conjunction with our mta are mpc, regional partners, i'm proud that as we do this for the first time bike share expanded to the east bay, and that is a tremendous >>[applause] real reflection of how this collaborative effort will work. we are going to grow. can you imagine 10 fold increase in bike share?

708, to 7000 in the next probably just a few years. because from the day that we are seeing in this world and the way it happened in new york with ford's leadership is can grow tenfold very very fast as we make locations to pick up bike share very convenient for everybody wants to use them. this is one of those really real life answers to peoples mobility, real-life challenges that we are creating solutions on. we were no longer just talking about the challenge. were going to offer solutions as we get together you're going to find a lot more solutions that come out of our mouths as elected officials because we get to work with the private sector in our agencies and advocates to make sure that solutions is what we go out with. congratulations. thank you for my thank you for your leadership but also thank you for all of the elected

officials the bay area getting together with all of us to find the solutions and to discover them and make them available and accessible for all types of families and users that the bay area. thank you. >>[applause] >> okay. so, now we are going to jump across the bait and i'd like to introduce mayor tom bates of berkeley. mayor bates. >>[applause] >> thank you very much for the opportunity to say a few words. we are extremely excited about the prospects of getting these incredible operations these incredible bicycles coming to the east bay. we anticipate this would be something like 1000 350 bicycles that will be available for the east bay. oakland will be getting a substantial portion. berkeley city get 400 bicycles coming and probably next spring. but

it's really wonderful what's happening in i was very fortunate to be on the mpc and certainly mirrors the conference and to be able to advocate for this because this is the day we been thinking about and hoping about and praying about that will come about. because, this is the future. folks, we believe very strongly that we want to walk walkable livable bicycle friendly city and were now in the process of redoing our bicycle plan to make sure that we make it as safe as possible and as convenient as possible. so, having this as an opportunity to come along and be part of it so exciting. so, i'm really happy this hat is happening congratulations to further. congratulations to mpc and for making this happen. it's a great day for the bay area. thank you. >>[applause] >> okay. i'm getting my

exercise this morning going up and down. now were going to jump to the south bay and i'd like to introduce mayor sam ricardo that of san jose. >>[applause] >> well, good morning. this is exciting. were there to see bikes reproducing like bunnies all throughout the bay area. it should happen here. yes, we embrace silicon valley technology but 10 times the old technology are the best. particularly when we think about how it is we are going to protect our environment and save our planet. for those of us who peddle what we preach, we know the future looks an awful lot like the technology to my left. we certainly know that were going to do all we can to continue to build out transit. we appreciate the

innovation and the great companies like ford to produce electric car infrastructure, but we also need a first mile, last mile solution for folks who need to get to and from transit in the city like san jose that so critical because we've got big ambitions right now building out bart system standing outran capacity all converging at the station will we have 600 trains a day moving through within a decade becoming the busiest multimodal station west of the mississippi. this will be a critical tool to ensure that people can get to and from transit and in san jose, because of the great leadership of j walter and his team at motivate 60% of the new bike share stations are going to be serving communities of concern. underserved communities. were motivated to offering a lower tier price plan to ensure that all of our community can benefit from this exceptional opportunity. so, i'm very excited good i'm so excited i'm actually a member bay area bike share. i'm proud to be at

card-carrying member. >>[applause] yes. but i have to give a shout out here to supervisor scott weiner who is been a champion of this. they came for the his vision really well before we even watched by jeff. thank you very much scott. and thank the entire team. thank you mayor lee and thank you for, for your investment and your vision. >>[applause] >> all right. well it's be powerful when you have san jose and you have berkeley and san francisco all working together. that is pretty amazing. to round it off, i would love to introduce the chairman of the metropolitan transportation commission and that is dave cortez the. [sp?] dave? >>[applause] >> well, thank you very much. earlier this morning mayor ricardo and i were talking about the fact that if you keep for testing a feature based on

what you've done in the past you continue to get the same problems that we created in the past good in this case, ford is not doing that. ford is changing the future. metropolitan transportation commission is changing the future and motivated changing the future not depending on the old ways of the past. so thank you so much and think you, mark for the inter-document there's no question that you know this, but i don't know if everybody else in the audience knows that back in the 1890s, henry ford called the first car ever built the quadra cycle. i'm not sure if mr. ford quite english and that his company would someday sponsor a bike sharing program out here in california and in fact if we could hear him now you probably would be saying, who would've thought. who

would've thought? but i also admire the way that ford has embraced inclusiveness that we at mtc with front and center when we conduct last year with motivate to operate and expand the bay area bike share network. i said, at that time, it was one of the biggest initiatives that we have launched with a sense of optimism and hope that someday we be standing here with this kind of a partnership. because of the fact is that bicycling is a great way for almost everyone to get around, you don't need $1000 carbon fiber frame. a splashy spandex outfit or holier than thou attitude you all you need is a willing pair of legs from yesterday reliable bike and a safe place to lock it up, of course. we all need to travel someplace to place. doesn't matter if we are rich or poor, old or young cock tall or short, what language we speak we all have places to go. so we at mtc and the people at motivate and working together

to make sure as the bay area bike share network grows the mobility advantages are shared among all the people in all the communities that this network serves. a minimum of 20% of all the new ford will bike stations be located in neighborhoods that mtc is designated as communities of concern. if you are not familiar with that term, those are areas with high numbers of households that don't own a car were headed by single parents were in which most of their monthly income goes to pay rent. this is very very important to us at mtc to the counties and cities we represent. committees of concern also include neighborhoods with high proportion of residents who are low income. were seniors or disabled or nonwhite were not proficient in english. to everyone who wants to use for the right to build ouzo ford and motivate world make low-cost medicines available to customers in holding utilities lifeline programs. motivate is

also done a great job of working with residents businesses and local elected officials like myself identified the very best locations for new bike share stations. they have like that within 120 stations owned. the selection process can give you i encourage everyone who's interested in bike sharing not just in san jose in san francisco and berkeley, whereby she or isn't pending for the first time but also in oakland, in emeryville, everyone to get involved. dozens of public workshops and outreach party been held in a guilty part in more of that to come as the process continues. the launch of four to go bike is really a cause for celebration. i know we all feel that your ticket just like the quadra cycle, evolved after a few years into the model t and revolutionized personal transportation in the process, ford go bike she was a bike

sharing is no longer an alternative transportation but a smart convenient reliable and affordable choice for the short trips that we all make. what better place to watch a program like this then in the bay area, silicon valley. thank you, ford thank you motivate thank you all for our partners here in the bay area. >>[applause] >> okay. i'm sure that henry ford was alive today he would take one of these person on the street right here right now. he was an innovator through and through. but, i do want to underscore something that we've heard from each of our guests this morning. cities nationally and globally are obviously facing extraordinarily new challenges. gridlock is not only affecting economic growth, but pollution is affecting our health but also the environment. it's very clear that the transportation system that we developed during the last 100 years is not going to work for the next 100 years. what cities need now is a partner to deliver solutions

for the next century. i want to tell you today that ford is deeply committed to being that partner. we were the first automaker to work with cities to tackle these new mobility challenges and we're bringing our 100 year, plus transportation knowledge and experience to address them. now, to some, this might seem like a pig of a departure from the business of building great cars and trucks, but the truth is, this is what we were born to do. because helping people-helping make making people's lives better as part of our dna as a company. because more than 100 years ago as was mentioned, henry ford he did not set out just to build a car. but he set out to do is give people the power to travel beyond the technological limits of the time. if for delete and

excessively making transportation to millions of people and not just the elite folks. so, when henry ford perfected the moving assembly line was able to produce obviously believe the model t's for everyday people and he pioneered higher wages that help create the middle class here in america. the result was the largest explosion in personal mobility that the world had ever seen at the time. now, it is time for the next chapter in mobility. today, we are announcing ford is teaming up with cities around the world and we could not be more proud to be starting here in san francisco to chart a new path in the new century. so, during the next eight years, ford is going to be in investing in a number transportation initiatives all of which are aimed at improving mobility. the area. the first part of this plan is the creation of a

shuttle service that can supplement the and expand the reach of traditional mass transit. we are announcing this morning that we are acquiring chariot a crowd sourced shuttle service based right here in san francisco and their ceo, ali-holly, raise your hand-okay. he is happy and the members of the chariot team. all right, great. >>[applause] they're all with us today we cannot be more proud than other the part of the ford family. the chariot, the chariot shuttle complement mass transit with fast libel and comfortable service. right now, mass transit systems in cities around the world are under a lot of strain. here in the us, it's a particularly distinct problem for underserved communities. we are a bus routes are subway lines don't

aren't always convenient. and getting to work or getting to school can be expensive and time-consuming which is actually is a silent barrier to progress. afterward, we pay attention to this. we actually think about this every single day. working with communities such as san francisco article very simply is to drive down the cost of mobility so that nobody gets left behind. from the very earliest days afterward, we have been committed to getting millions of people where they want and where they need to go. it's not just a business for us. it is what drives us every single day and it's the reason why we come to work every single day. that is why we are so excited about shovels. they don't require big infrastructure upgrades. they can rapidly adapt based on

demand and they reduce the number of cars on the road in congested urban areas. i really think this is an ideal marriage of our core business and are merging mobility businesses. the ford transit is the best-selling band in the us. lastly the best-selling band around the world, in part because it can be adapted to fit the needs of our wide variety of customers. it's the perfect platform for our dynamic shuttle solution. it shows the ways in which we are taking our work using our traditional knowledge and based on that, solving new transportation solutions. so, it's a win for everyone. we plan to grow our shuttle service to at least five additional cities and markets in the next 18 months. but shovels are not obviously the only transportation solution that we are pursuing. our approach is how do we offer cities a suite of solutions?

egress window no two cities are looking what works in san francisco may not necessarily work in shanghai. so in addition to the new dynamic shuttle service, we are developing some great obviously two wheeled transportation solutions. today, we are announcing off easily were partnering with motivate and their ceo, j walter, and to expand by sharing here in the bay area with the new ford go bike and as the mayor mentioned, we have plans to add an additional 7000 bikes in the bay area by 2018 emma all of which will be accessible through our ford pass by phone. what we will do is we will use the traffic data that we collect from the bikes to build an interconnected mobility platform. and a network and what we will do, it will

provide real-time data that helps plan your commute based on weather conditions, usage patterns, and of course, bike availability. fundamentally, we know bikes can be an essential part of transportation solutions in the city is the mayors were just talking about. plus, they, they have no emissions. this exam you get a little exercise which is a good thing it's a fun way to get around. so we think it's a win for everybody involved. today, also marks the company the kickoff of a new team we are creating inside the company called, city solutions. the teams goal and your goal is to work with cities around the world to conceptualize and then

implement new ways of getting locals as well as visitors around town and getting them where they want to go and doing it easily. whether that is through dynamic shuttles or whether that's through autonomous vehicles arrived billing services or bike sharing . it's all of the above. we are starting this partnership in service two cities right here in san francisco and we will be expanding it under the leadership of jim hackett and our new ford smart mobility llc. so, as you think about it you've heard the ceo of a major automotive company global automotive company talking about bicycles and shovels right it's a little different than what were used to. but that is because i believe that we are in the midst of a transformational moment in the history of transportation. not only in here in san francisco, not only here in the united states, but around the globe. ford is not only just an automaker anymore. we are also a mobility company and we are expanding our entire business

to focus on both of those things. because we fundamentally understand that the world is changing. i think we are uniquely equipped 12 cities and hope locals and help travelers to those cities are like adapt to the changes that we see going forward. for us, we also see it simply as an anonymous business opportunity as well but it's actually something even more important for us. you know, as i mentioned henry ford, he drove radical change at the start of the 20th century. a change that helps people around the world follow their dreams and help build better lives. with the freedom-what transportation don't worry about it i would just wing it. when you think about that it's amazing for us

to be able to be part of this. to be part of taking this transformation and what our founder did over 100 years ago and allowing us to participate to hope that transformation going forward starting in cities like san francisco and moving it across the globe. that's who we are. that's what we want to do to serve and we are so excited about doing it together going forward. so, with that, i know i mayors have some work to do to keep the cities running, so we like to give all of them a hand as they obviously have to go back to their day jobs. >>[applause] >> at this point, we would like to invite up our panel members and as part of that one of our panel members, jake, will say a few words. >>[applause] >> thank you. i just was going to come up. they were delighted to be working with ford, could

we are thrilled to be working with ford. it's really wonderful, but i also want to highlight the really hard work that everybody has done at the mtc, at the cities, in the advocacy community. this is only possible today because were building on the foundation of everything you've done. thank you very very much. >>[applause] >> good morning everyone. my name is doug newcomb present at father of the sparrow also journalists covering card technology for long long time and i have to say this is such an exciting time. as mark mentioned you kind of wonder what is an automaker sparrow 'weren't such a important time here. seeing all these things come together on mobiles of course public transportation with a great fan of your elect him quickly introduce themselves. doing a little more

deeper dive into what mark and some of the mayors talked about today. >> thank you lunch impacted executive chairman of ford's smart mobility llc. we'll talk about what it does a little later. >> hello. i'm all about the founder and ceo of chariot and very excited to be on the stage and sharing his panel. >> j welder ceo of motivate and just thrilled. >> great. let's go a head and get stuck. now the city's announcement with fourth collaboration with motivate innovative. jp your long history of working with cities to address mobility challenged. as you start to think about urban mobility, what role do you see but explain as part of the transportation system? >> sure. i come to it wraps of a little different perspective than ford does. my history is actually running large transit systems that i had the good fortune to run the transit

system in new york in hong kong and in london. those are incredibly powerful machines for development in the way that the city's work. a couple of years ago, when i started to tell people that i was going to leave that and go to run a bike sharing company, people look at me i can as a matter fact they sent it to me-are you crazy? but, i have to tell you that i've never been happier going to work than i am today. one of the things that actually is happening in our cities in the way that i think about this is we are actually seeing a revolution in the way that we get around cities. it's not the way it was 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. bike sharing program were talking about today whether this is a company that operates 30,000 bicycles 12 cities across the world, five years ago we were operating 400 bicycles. that is

the difference in the growth that is taking place. if i were to think about a city and said, if i stood on the stage v years ago and said, you could find a city in the united states is where there will be 10 million bike share trips per year, 10 million, you would have looked at me like i was crazy. we had 10 million bike share trips in new york last year. it blows me away in terms of how quickly it's happening and the way in which it is becoming part of the fabric of cities. >> there's always a lot of moving parts and no pun intended to transportation of cities. so i want to speak about obviously motivate works up close without test rotation

commission ice and glaciers executive success one of the key enablers for cities to have a robust bike sharing program as part of a larger transportation system? bedecked look i think it's the report the mtc is fantastic as they provide a regional framework for what's going on. their vision was about making small incremental changes their vision is about making things that really believe make a difference. what's going on in the region and they don't see it as being good enough to just hit part about being on they want a regional approach to what was happening. that's hugely important part into a get a second part is a city level. the idea of the way cities transforming their physical space. the infrastructure that is being built. i mean san francisco has built more than 400 miles of bike lanes in the last 10 years. does it matter? it matters enormously. the mode share with doubling of bicycle users in san francisco over the

last decade. that's amazing. third, i would say within the cities, we have to recognize that last week level as. the advocacy groups. the san francisco by coalition silicon valley by coalition. these groups in this area have been absolutely fundamental to establishing the framework of allowing things like this to happen. then, the ability to stay in here today and i said before, and i can't say it enough, we skin standards and do this because these groups have been doing all this work collectively for the last decade. >> a lot of moving parts. mark mentioned how unusual it is to have an automaker talk about mobility solution. i then allowed to 40 events and there's usually a vehicle inside why is ford getting involved in sheer transportation especially bike? >> i have to say is very proud of my comments this morning because they captured something that's important which is if you can stand in how to did you

see the city as one system might you can stand back and think about that and you see our vehicles moving in that system, with ford sees in the vehicles it sees the people. the people that are in those vehicles have a life that transcends aspects of being in the vehicle and being outside of it. we call that multimodal. as a consequence our interest is in the date of the life of the traveler, what are the pain points they face and how can we help improve their life as they traveled? how can we make the modes of transportation as we stare at it at high altitude be one system? this is the reason

we start to see the city really as our partner in this effort. we could just called city solutions here in san francisco is our first effort at that and what i'm most excited about, as mark hinted, there is data coming from all aspects of these nodes on the network. the bikes of any transmitting it to the cloud the dynamic shuttle is can be communicating can would have away these two systems help the user now have a better day. >> i'm glad you mentioned that because the other not but here today is ford's acquisition of chariot and i really like what was talked about today hosted a serve underserved community. you mentioned i want to ask, allie, how do charles put into the future the future urban mobility? >> a number of ways. i'm glad you mentioned underserved areas because one of the things that chariot is doing it certainly, lamenting the public mass transit system by providing access additional capacity to underserved areas and actually underserved kinds of days like the commute when a demand for mass transit services is highest. but give you an

example. one day, we walked into the office on a monday and we thought there were several hundred votes to crowd source a certain bout between downtown san francisco and the fisherman's wharf district where there's a lot of hospitality businesses by caltrans cruises mucky ppr 39 on other hotels. delhi square. those companies actually employ a ton of hourly workers hospitality workers were coming from the east bay using bart. what we found was all of these voters for this commute between downtown san francisco and the tourist district were actually the employers coming in and encouraging their employees to crowd source a bout, a chariot route and overnight we had

several hundred customers coming in from the east they using bart as their main trunk line using chariot as a last mile commute between downtown and their hospitality jobs. in the morning and getting back to bart to go home in the evening something we were really proud about. before the word multimodal pure a number of times as well. chat it just becomes a nether option for city rollers to actually get around town a lot more efficiently and hopefully keep their car in the garage until saturday and sunday. finally, we are not only a-we are actually ceding the mass transit services. we are really proud to say that one in five chariot riders is actually using the service as a first and last mile commute to things like bart and caltrain, the ferry system and transbay bus terminals. whereas, people were driving to pile also or berkeley another taking chariot to caltrain, jumping on the

baby bullet and getting to work without having to take the card out of barrage >> i think one of the things that were seeing now is all the pieces coming into place like you mentioned is not just one would've transportation. it's many are glad you mentioned the underserved because my group worked closely with sec. fox and the dot for the smart city child. the one thing i took away from it is i think it's 20% of income for the income families goes to chess notation as opposed to 70% for middle-class families. this is around the globe. so jim, i want you to talk about what role do you see shuttles playing globally because as mark mentioned, this is not just the us that ford is looking up at a global solution? >> on vitale to help me with this answer but the opportunity is the inevitable growth of population in cities for example in china by 2030, 75%

of its population will be in cities. some of the cities have not even been built yet. so were going to need a system solution that's well-designed just like talking about here in san francisco to handle that population in these dense cities. what happens is, is refine all over the world the issues of the same in the systems. probably the way our electrical grids and computer networks are the same all over the world. [inaudible] >> i agree, jim. when my inspirations for founding chariot was when i was traveling around the world i would see chariot type services in mexico city or point is always a: collecting those [sp?] tel aviv is really calm [inaudible]. we did not invent the concept. we're just going to use technology and all the

resources that we now have a really proud to partner with ford and take chariot to the next level so that we can create the perfect urban community commute >> to wrap up, jim and i like to hear from all the panels on final thoughts as we think that cities as the future helping companies like ford would've eight and chariot continue to work with cities on mobility solutions and am really curious to hear how the use of ford city solutions work as well? >> i want to answer that but first i want to pay some thomas today because jay's history, if you look up his background he's been involved in design and managing big urban systems in china, for example. when he talked to me about the role that the pipe laid in this model of the future, it wasn't long for me to understand how important this was. as you

heard the mayor celebrating the role it's going to play. then, we have the notion just limited had 61,000 riders in new york, one day this week. so, it tells you there is it really important demand here that is for us to unleash together. and, as we think about this in the future, remember her now can have data that helps us to see the invisible roots that we tell each other how did you go from here to there. what actually can i know what those are in ways that we can make transportation system together. >> i went out on a couple things and thank you very much for the comments, jim. i think one of the things we are seeing is that cities are evolving incredibly quickly. the base is changing in cities. the way in which people want to be using areas and patterns of movement. actually, outstripped our ability to be will to respond to just traditional transportation models to be able to do that. the 20th century, if you think about it, was a century where studies

were shaped by infrastructure in the development of cities came alongside the infrastructure. the 21st century has not been like that at all. we are reshaping cities around us all the time right now. i think one of the times that it usually important in both of these initiatives show this, are things that create a canvas that people can paint themselves. that they can fill this in a way that is if it's them and ultimately, yes, they made need to be more heavier scale and larger infrastructure investment to be will to do that, what part of this issue and, i think, if you can get this type of system out there if you can put the technology behind it people will shape it to with they wanted to be >> so, doug, when you asked me how the sunni cities feeling about this, we can get to them fast enough. in fact, i have to say, i'm proud of this could

they said there's not very many automotive manufacturers talking to us. really, ford is leading the way and thinking about the city as a partner in helping come up with these solutions. speeches were very proud in our home city of san francisco that we've been very well received from city hall, supervisors and the districts where chariot is helping their constituents heading to work and homes faster more reliably and you touched on something about affordability. chariot's average affair is four dollars. so, we are using technology that outsourcing technology, to figure out where the bunches of people are and driving down costs and this is, with ford's hope, we and the data and telematics and all of the systems were going to continue to put in place, we are excited to drive the cost down even further. >> as you mentioned, it's a systematic approach a systemwide approach. i think

that louisa take away. here we have someone from an automaker someone, dynamic shuttle service, by giant and i think the other thing is, what i've seen and this is one my takeaways from working with the dot, to the med were talking with all the mayors and we saw three of them here today. mayor , atlanta said last year that an event saying, we want to get elected. transportation is a huge part of what makes a city livable. with meir adler in boston as well. i think the bottom line is this technology and j, you touched on it the technology is really going to shake it be broken to shape the technology. i think the take away we are going to see all these different solutions coming together and i too applaud ford for taking the lead in doing this with smart mobility in bringing these things together. so we will wrap up there. we will be

available for questions after we wrap up here. so, if you have questions for the individual panelists, please he is after the settlement with that i'd like to wrap up and like to thank the board and also motivate and chariot and of course the city of san francisco for hosting us today. so, thanks very much. >>[applause] >> >> >> >>[gavel]