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Impact of E-Scooters on Road Safety: A Case Study in Lithuania
The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2022 The rapidly growing popularity of electric scooters in recent years has allowed the road user to choose another alternative mode of transportation. On the one hand, it is an ecological means of transportation in the city, allowing you to quickly reach ...
Vilma Jasiūnienė, Aja Tumavičė
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Can battery swapping stations make micro-mobility more environmentally sustainable? [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 The rapid spread of shared micromobility services e.g. e-scooters raises questions about their ecological impacts. Previous Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) show that the ecological impacts of shared mobility services vary significantly depending on the ...
Finke Sebastian +4 more
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Promet (Zagreb), 2022 In this study, a mobile application-based service providing information on the reduction in the air pollution source emissions due to the replacement of conventional scooters by electric scooters (e-scooters) was proposed to increase user awareness of ...
Fei-Hui HUANG
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Factors Affecting e-Scooter Mode Substitution
Findings, 2022 What transport modes do e-scooters replace? This article analyses the results from a web survey conducted among customers who were registered with five different shared e-scooter apps in Norway in October-November 2021.
Nils Fearnley
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Energy Strategy Reviews, 2023 Electrification is considered a key enabler for decarbonizing road transportation. Recently, increasing attention has been directed to the deployment of electric two-wheelers in cities across the globe. However, climate change mitigation potential across
Yuan-Hsi Chien +2 more
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Enhanced Braking of E-Scooters
The Evolving Scholar, 2023 The growing popularity of e-scooters is unfortunately accompanied by an increasing number of accidents and injuries. To improve the safety properties of this new type of vehicles, a braking assistance system is outlined in this study. Based on a simulation model of e-scooter, tyre–road contact, and human rider body, strategies are investigated to ...
Florian Klinger +2 more
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“I’ll Take the E-Scooter Instead of My Car”—The Potential of E-Scooters as a Substitute for Car Trips in Germany [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 Considering the controversial discussion about the sustainability and usefulness of e-scooters, in this study, we analyzed the substitution potential of e-scooters, especially with regard to car trips. Based on data from the national mobility survey in Germany (Mobility in Germany, MiD 2017), we identified trips that could be covered purely by an e ...
Gebhardt, Laura +2 more
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Aspects of E-Scooter Sharing in the Smart City
Informatics, 2022 The contemporary urban environment faces such challenges as overloaded traffic, heavy pollution, and social problems, etc. The concept of the “smart city” allows solving some of these issues. One of the opportunities provided by the smart city is the development of micro-mobility and sharing services; contributing to the optimization of transport flows
Yelena Popova, Diana Zagulova
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Detection of E-scooter Riders in Naturalistic Scenes
CoRR, 2021 E-scooters have become ubiquitous vehicles in major cities around the world.The numbers of e-scooters keep escalating, increasing their interactions with other cars on the road. Normal behavior of an e-scooter rider varies enormously to other vulnerable road users.
Kumar Apurv, Renran Tian, Rini Sherony
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Applied Sciences, 2023 Shared e-scooters were introduced in urban public spaces as a way to promote a modal shift from cars in short-distance trips, as well as to improve sustainability, resilience, and equity in urban transport.
Gabriel Dias +2 more
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