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Today, Uber launches the New Mobility heat map in eight cities across the globe: Brussels, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. This product aggregates JUMP bike and scooter activity and maps it to the city streets visualizing where these new modes are most common. This tool is the latest addition to the Uber Movement datasets which makes aggregated and anonymized mobility data free and publicly available.

Uber launched a version of this product as a part of its City Mobility Campaign, which supports legislation that requires new mobility lanes to be added as a part of street repaving projects.

Typically, planners and advocates are left to rely on anecdotal evidence and dispersed bike counters to gather information about new mobility lane usages, leaving massive gaps in understanding of biking and scootering activity. The new mobility heatmap provides unprecedented coverage of new mobility activity across the city in order to understand how travel patterns of these new options may differ and where bike lanes are most needed.

Not satisfied with the recent uplift in chip sales, Intel appears to be topping up its expensive bet on self-driving. The semiconductor giant is reportedly interested in Israeli public transport app Moovit. This would sit comfortably with its 2017 acquisition of Israeli autonomous vehicle sensor company Mobileye.

Moovit’s estimated annual revenues of about $30m would have little impact on Intel’s near $74bn in forecast sales this year. The app has 800m users — up sixfold in less than two years — but it is data, not customers, that Intel is likely to be interested in.

Combining two mobility tech groups is only logical if the initial diversification made sense. Autonomous vehicle accidents and nervous regulators mean proof of that may be decades away. The deal more reliably demonstrates that Intel is still seeking a task as compelling as making chips for the first wave of the tech revolution.