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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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Trains. Make them trains. The stunningly efficient "move incredible amounts of mass" systems we have used for hundreds of years, and yes, even automated.
Use the thing that exists and is amazing. Trains.
Of course, over land. But transporting from Africa to, e.g. the US you'd use tankers, probably converted oil tankers. Then, from the coast to the interior on rail.