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Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 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 Jose Cabral Dias +1 more
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Are shared electric scooters energy efficient?
Communications in Transportation Research, 2021 Shared electric scooters (e-scooter) are booming across the world and widely regarded as a sustainable mobility service. An increasing number of studies have investigated the e-scooter trip patterns, safety risks, and environmental impacts, but few ...
Yuxuan Wang, Jiaming Wu, Pan Liu
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E-scooters: competition with shared bicycles and relationship to public transport
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021 E-scooters have recently emerged as an alternative means of transportation in cities. It remains unclear whether e-scooters compete for users with bicycles – another mode of shared micromobility.
Łukasz Nawaro
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Perceptions of shared e-scooters service among university students in Braga, Portugal
Transportation EngineeringShared e-scooters were introduced in cities as a promise to provide accessible, affordable, flexible, and sustainable mobility. However, it is still unknown if this mode can contribute to reaching sustainability and whether it is perceived by the ...
Gabriel Jose Cabral Dias
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Popular but precarious: low helmet use among shared micromobility program riders in San Francisco [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundShared micromobility programs (SMPs) are integral to urban transport in US cities, providing sustainable transit options. Increased use has raised safety concerns, notably about helmet usage among e-scooter and e-bicycle riders.
Willow Frye +14 more
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Factors influencing the usage of shared E-scooters in Chicago
Transportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice, 2021 The rapid popularity growth of shared e-scooters creates the necessity of understanding the determinants of shared e-scooter usage. This paper estimates the impacts of temporal variables (weather data, weekday/weekend, and gasoline prices) and time-invariant variables (socio-demographic, built environment, and neighborhood characteristics) on the ...
Suman Mitra
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Trip Patterns and Revenue of Shared E-Scooters in Louisville, Kentucky
Findings, 2019 Data on shared e-scooters in Louisville, Kentucky are analyzed. The data includes check out times, trip duration, and trip distance. Patterns in usage are evaluated and suggest that e-scooters are probably not being used for commute trips, but ...
Robert B. Noland
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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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Optimal Rebalancing Strategy for Shared e-Scooter Using Genetic Algorithm
Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2023 Shared e-scooters are provided as a free-floating service that can be freely rented and returned within the service area. Although this has a positive effect in terms of convenience for users of shared e-scooters, it is creating new urban problems, such ...
Sujae Kim, Gyeongjae Lee, Sangho Choo
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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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