A year ago, there were no scooters.

There weren't any semi-autonomous shuttles ferrying Quicken Loans employees to a parking garage in Greektown.

Google's Waze carpooling service wasn't operating in metro Detroit.

Ford Motor Co.'s Chariot Transit Inc. wasn't shuttling Quicken employees to work in 14-passenger transport vans from suburban locales.

SMART's FAST bus service wasn't running up and down Woodward, Gratiot and Michigan avenues.

And the QLine streetcar on Woodward Avenue and Mogo Detroit bike share were just six months into operation.

The way people can get to work and move around downtown Detroit has rapidly changed in a matter of 12 months.

And Kevin Bopp is smiling.

As vice president of parking and mobility for Bedrock LLC, Bopp's job is to create new options for employees of Quicken Loans, affiliated companies and Bedrock tenants to get to work each day.

Bopp manages 19,000 parking spaces for the 17,000 employees of the Quicken Loans family of companies and some of the tenants in Dan Gilbert-owned buildings that now total 50,000 downtown workers. Bedrock is the real estate management arm of Gilbert's downtown Detroit business empire.