Open Mobility Foundation SMART Curb Collaborative

Cityfi supported the Open Mobility Foundation (OMF) to structure, launch and facilitate the SMART Curb Collaborative—a multi-city, multi-stakeholder initiative designed to facilitate rapid prototyping and sustainable scaling of new mobility technology. The cohort was designed to accelerate learning, innovation, and policy development around digital curb management. It brought together program leadership from 10 US cities (Boston, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Miami, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles) to share experience and effective strategies to deploy digital tools and common data standards to transform the curb into a more efficient, equitable, and sustainable public asset.

Method

Cityfi’s scope of services included: facilitating the Collaborative’s working groups and in-person sessions; helping collaborative members build a shared understanding of challenges and opportunities; curating case studies, lessons learned and early successes in peer-to-peer learning; advising on change management and technology deployment policies and strategies; and supporting select member cities in defining pilot projects, metrics, and evaluation methodologies.

Through this work, Cityfi helped advance a national conversation on the future of the curb—one that positions curbs not just as physical spaces, but as digitally managed assets central to achieving goals for safety, equity, climate, and economic vitality. The SMART Curb Collaborative established a replicable model for cross-jurisdictional cooperation, ensuring cities can shape the rules of the road for an increasingly dynamic and digitally enabled curbside environment.

Project Information

Client: Open Mobility Foundation

Location: National