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Metro Magazine covers the public transit and motorcoach industry. Its business roundup placed the FSU Safe Ride launch alongside contract news from national engineering and design firms. Landing in that company signalled the program registered as transit industry news rather than campus news alone.
Florida State's student newspaper reported the end of the university's Lyft-based ride program and the arrival of FSU Safe Ride in its place. The piece explains what changed for students night to night and identifies Slidr as the operator behind the service. Student press coverage matters here because riders are the audience that has to adopt the new app.
IPMI is the trade association for the parking and mobility profession. Its writeup frames the FSU decision as a shift away from subsidising third-party rideshare trips toward a dedicated electric fleet the university controls. That framing is the case many campus transportation directors are weighing right now.
Read the full story at International Parking & Mobility Institute ↗
Hometown coverage from Boca Raton, where Slidr is headquartered. The report notes Florida State ended its long-running Lyft partnership in April and moved to a university-managed service. It is the local-business angle on a program running 400 miles away.
Plug-In NC promotes electric transportation adoption across North Carolina. It featured CatawbaGO as a working model for electric-first campus mobility in the state. The recognition is notable because it came from a clean transportation body rather than from higher education press.
The college's own launch announcement for CatawbaGO, a free electric rideshare available to Catawba ID holders. It describes the service as connecting campus with the surrounding Salisbury community, not just moving students between buildings. Official university announcements are the clearest statement of how a client frames the program to its own people.
The City of Naples weighed a free electric microtransit service for its downtown redevelopment district, aimed at cutting traffic, emissions and parked cars. The article situates the proposal against Slidr's existing operation in the area. It is a useful record of a municipality treating electric microtransit as infrastructure rather than novelty.
Oberlin partnered with Slidr on the EBus, a free electric service running a fixed route through the city. Unlike the on-demand campus deployments, this one is a scheduled municipal route open to everyone. It is the clearest example of Slidr operating for a city rather than a single institution.
The University of North Alabama's student paper covered Slidr replacing the campus purple bus system that had run for decades. Students described requesting rides through an app instead of waiting on a fixed schedule. Replacing an entrenched bus system is the harder version of this transition, and the student reaction is the part worth reading.
Huntsville television coverage of the UNA pilot as it began, with free rides for students across and around campus. Broadcast coverage reached families and residents in the Shoals region, well beyond the student body. It captures the program at pilot stage, before the full replacement of the bus system.
WAFF reported on UNA's partnership with Slidr at the start of the pilot, focusing on the environmental case for the switch. The station framed it as a campus mobility change with emissions benefits attached. It ran three days before the WHNT segment, making it the earliest broadcast record of the deployment.
UNA's official pressroom announcement of the on-demand service for students. The university presented it as a flexible alternative to a traditional fixed shuttle. Reading it next to the student and broadcast coverage from the same month shows how the institution itself chose to position the change.
Auburn Athletics announced a Slidr game day shuttle serving the areas around Jordan-Hare Stadium. Game day is the hardest test of a shuttle operation: enormous demand compressed into a few hours, on closed roads. This is the earliest of Slidr's large-event deployments on record.
Birmingham television coverage of the same Auburn game day shuttle, aimed at fans planning their trip to the stadium. The segment treats the shuttle as part of the game day experience rather than as a transit story. It shows the service reaching a general sports audience across Alabama.
A report on downtown Naples parking and mobility that referenced Slidr's free on-demand electric shuttle as part of the local picture. The company appears here as existing context in a civic debate, not as the subject of the story. That incidental mention is itself evidence the service was already established in Naples by early 2018.
Asheville's alt-weekly covered emerging transportation models in the city, including the downtown shuttle service founder Mike Trombino had launched as RideSlidr. This is the earliest known press record of the company and documents its first deployment, which corroborates the 2016 founding date listed in the fast facts above. The original service was a free, environmentally minded downtown circulator, the same shape the company still operates at larger scale today.
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Slidr is a turnkey electric microtransit company founded in 2016 in Asheville, North Carolina and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Slidr designs, launches, and operates on-demand electric shuttle and safe ride programs for universities, hotels and resorts, planned communities, senior living communities, corporate campuses, and cities. Each program includes the vehicles, W-2 drivers, a branded rider app, dispatch technology, and ridership reporting, delivered as a single managed service. Slidr operates an all-electric fleet across 8 active deployments in 6 states, and most programs go from signed contract to live operations in about 45 days.
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