This week Oliver interviews David Levinson, professor at the University ofSydney and popular blogger at transportist.org. David is not new to theworld of talking about transport and disruptive innovation, having joined Horaceon Asymcar many years ago. He brings a tempered view to the benefits andchallenges of micromobility, including around infrastructure and thedecision making timeframes that it typically has.Specifically, we dig into:- David’s background and research into toll roads, travel behaviour andurban form.- Whether David considers micromobilty a substantial new innovation intransport.- Constraints around deployment of larger vehicle fleets.- The challenges around parking, NIMBY-ism and political will inreallocating street space.- Comparable histories of new vehicle technologies making it into cities.- The intersection of political capital/structures and the likelihood ofrollouts of specific transport infrastructure- The fundamental challenges with micromobility infrastructure - heft,vehicle density and decision-making timeframes- Examples of cities that have more proactively built infrastructure formicromobility, and historical examples of how companies have garneredcommunity support to lobby for new infrastructure.It’s a great episode, if nothing else because it lays out thechallenges/opportunities to widespread adoption of micromobility in soberterms.