Mobility Innovation Center 2025 Annual Report
Partnerships in innovation
In many ways, the Mobility Innovation Center turned a corner in 2025, building on the partnerships and support developed over the years. As with any innovative endeavor, challenges are a part of the journey with failure always a very real potential outcome.
Mobility Innovation Center 2024 Annual Report
Collaboration is the key to innovation
Innovation goes beyond technology or gadgets; it’s about the people who discover new ways to solve problems. When it comes to mobility, the challenges are significant and deeply felt by our communities.
2024 Seattle Commute Survey
Can you find happiness in a commute?
The Seattle Commute Survey explores what a satisfying post-pandemic commute looks like. Telework dropped by 8% compared to 2022 responses, and Seattle is seeing an uptick in drive-alone and mass-transit commutes.
Charging toward a zero-emission transit fleet
UW researchers explore using public-private partnerships to convert bus bases for electric-powered vehicle charging
Conversion of bus base facilities, the heart of transit operations, for electric vehicle charging is a large-scale project with many players and complex needs. One option for transit agencies working to shift to a zero-emission fleet is a public-private partnership model (P3), which defers upfront capital construction costs and has the potential to help agencies meet long-term sustainability and resiliency goals.
Keeping it on the Tracks
What can we learn from high-speed rail?
A team of UW researchers examined successful high-speed rail projects in Europe and Asia with the goal of gleaning insights to inform planning efforts to bring high-speed rail to the Cascadia region. The report involved more than 50 hours of interviews with industry experts and a review of the relevant literature.
Featured project
Electric mobility hubs (eMOB)
The Mobility Innovation Center is partnering with King County Metro, Sound Transit, and Seattle City Light to explore how electric mobility hubs could work in Seattle.
Latest announcements
April, 2026 | CoMotion
Ten years of daring to be different: celebrating the Mobility Innovation Center
In the news
April, 2024 | American Society of Civil Engineers
How can P3s help transit fleets achieve zero emissions?
July, 2023 | South Seattle Emerald | Project: Researchers Investigate High-Speed Rail
Plans Develop for High-Speed Rail in the PNW
June, 2021 | HCDE Blog | Project: Return to Transit Marketing Campaign
Human Centered Design & Engineering students generate winning campaign to bring King County residents back to transit
April, 2021 | AWS Public Sector Blog | Project: Virtual Coordination Center
Advice for transportation agencies and authorities seeking funding for innovation
August, 2020 | Globe Newswire | Project: Virtual Coordination Center
Cleartronic Inc.’s (CLRI) Subsidiary ReadyOP Communications, Inc. to Be Part of Team to Create a Virtual Coordination Center for the Greater Seattle Area Highway Systems