Analysis of the environmental impact of e-scooter sharing services considering product reliability characteristics and durability

Severengiz, Semih; Schelte, Nora; Bracke, Stefan

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2021.01.072

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“…An additional two-wheel transport mode that is gaining momentum in cities, and has also been the focus of a number of research studies in recent years, is shared electric scooters. Research on this mode [5, 6,35,36] reports total LCA emission factors in the range 102 to 160 g/pkm, with a median value of 122 g/pkm (and an average value of 123 g/pkm). While electricity consumption has a marginal impact, the production phase is the most critical (up to 80% of the total emissions) due to the short lifetime of e-scooters, which can be both a consequence of misuse by customers and low-quality materials.…”

Section: Two-wheelersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carbon Intensity of Passenger Transport Modes: A Review of Emission Factors, Their Variability and the Main Drivers

Noussan¹,

Campisi²,

Jarre³

2022

Sustainability

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The transport sector is responsible for a significant amount of global carbon emissions, and several policies are being implemented at different levels to reduce its impact. To properly assess the effectiveness of planned measures, analysts often rely on average emission factors for different transport modes. However, average values often hide significant variability that stems from factors along the entire supply chain of transport modes. This review presents a comprehensive overview of research on this topic, comparing emission factors for different passenger transport modes and discussing the main drivers and parameters that affect their variability. The results are useful for researchers and policymakers to properly understand the reliability of carbon intensity indicators when evaluating the impact and effectiveness of sustainable transport policies.

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Section: Two-wheelersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carbon Intensity of Passenger Transport Modes: A Review of Emission Factors, Their Variability and the Main Drivers

Noussan¹,

Campisi²,

Jarre³

2022

Sustainability

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“…All these characteristics make them an ideal means of transport. However, they do have some significant disadvantages, the main one being the danger of accidents [2].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving the Management of Operations of the E-Scooter Services in Sicily: A First Step of a Descriptive Statistical Survey

Campisi,

Vianello,

Kuşkapan

et al. 2023

Communications

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ResumeThe recent pandemic has changed the modal choices of users in the urban context, highlighting in the last two years an increase in the diffusion of electric scooters, which is not homogeneous in the Italian context. At the beginning of 2020, the first e-scooter services were launched in Sicily, with the city of Palermo leading the way. A survey was therefore conducted in Sicily involving approximately 550 regular users of e-scooter services. The descriptive statistical analysis undertaken compared three different periods pre, during and post pandemic, with particular attention to the gender and age gap and different trends in the diffusion of multimodality. The results provide not only some suggestions for the improvement of services by managers but some suggestions to local administrators for implementation of democratic and sustainable planning steps, as well.

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“…Published research on e-scooters has increased significantly in the last four years [5,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Those e-scooter studies have focused on motivations for riding e-scooters [5,16,19]; sociodemographics and perceptions of e-scooter riders and non-riders [2,5,9,27]; route choice and infrastructure [20]; regulations of e-scooter systems [11,13,23]; mode replacement and multimodal connections with other modes [10,14,15,17]; or benefits and costs of e-scooter systems [5,12,16,18]. Publications focusing on e-scooter parking are more limited and As shown above, prior research on e-scooter parking has focused on rider and nonrider perceptions of parking behavior, parking locations, cluttering of sidewalks and streets, as well as compliance with various types of regulations of e-scooter parking.…”

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An Exploration of the Decline in E-Scooter Ridership after the Introduction of Mandatory E-Scooter Parking Corrals on Virginia Tech’s Campus in Blacksburg, VA

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We report shared e-scooter ridership and rider perceptions on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus before and after introduction of mandatory e-scooter parking corrals in January 2022. The analysis relies on a panel of 131 e-scooter riders surveyed in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022. Although parking corrals were perceived favorably prior to implementation, perceptions became more negative afterwards. Respondents said corrals were not located where needed, difficult to find, fully occupied, and took too much extra time to use. After parking corrals were introduced, ridership declined 72% overall and also fell for all socio-economic subgroups. The heaviest user groups, like undergraduate males, were most likely to quit. The first study identifying desired and actual egress times for e-scooters, we found that roughly two-thirds of riders desired egress times under 2 min and one quarter under 1 min. Prior to the introduction of parking corrals, 82% of riders reported actual egress times under 2 min, and 43% under 1 min. Those who kept riding after the introduction of e-scooter corrals reported longer actual egress times and a stronger stated desire for egress times under 2 min. Communities should be careful when imposing e-scooter parking restrictions to ensure that e-scooter egress time is sufficiently low—ideally within an easy 2 min walk of popular origins and destinations.

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Analysis of the environmental impact of e-scooter sharing services considering product reliability characteristics and durability

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Carbon Intensity of Passenger Transport Modes: A Review of Emission Factors, Their Variability and the Main Drivers

Carbon Intensity of Passenger Transport Modes: A Review of Emission Factors, Their Variability and the Main Drivers

Improving the Management of Operations of the E-Scooter Services in Sicily: A First Step of a Descriptive Statistical Survey

An Exploration of the Decline in E-Scooter Ridership after the Introduction of Mandatory E-Scooter Parking Corrals on Virginia Tech’s Campus in Blacksburg, VA

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