Notes on the practices and appearances of e-scooter users in public space

Tuncer, Sylvaine; Laurier, Éric; Brown, Barry; Licoppe, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102702

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“…Issues that occurred rather unexpected are those of vandalism, short e-scooter lifetime, and recycling and disposal (Gössling, 2020). Besides, the literature reveals the opportunistic driving behavior of e-scooter users that are not shirking back from violating traffic rules (Tuncer et al, 2020).…”

Section: Drivers For and Ecological Assessment Of Electric Vehiclesmentioning

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Consumer acceptance of shared e-scooters for urban and short-distance mobility

Kopplin

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Reichenberger

2021

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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E-scooters have conquered urban areas as a means for individual mobility and compete with other modes of transportation. While some studies endorse e-scooters as eco-friendly solution for crowded cities, others report contradictory findings and highlight safety issues. To reveal factors affecting e-scooter usage from a consumer's perspective, a study using an adapted Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) is conducted. Based on random sampling among German public transportation services, 749 responses were collected and analyzed. E-scooters are studied in the context of mobility alternatives, revealing that they are mostly viewed as fun objects, and perceived safety indeed impedes their usage. Additionally, environmental concerns and individual convenience (i.e., performance expectancy) evince to represent the main drivers for using e-scooter. Besides, differences in the motivation for (potential) usage were found between owners and non-owners. Regarding the ecological assessment of e-scooters, they may, in fact, substitute walking over short distances.

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Section: Drivers For and Ecological Assessment Of Electric Vehiclesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer acceptance of shared e-scooters for urban and short-distance mobility

Kopplin

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Reichenberger

2021

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

110

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“…Non-compliance with traffic regulations, passing through a red light, traveling on the sidewalk, driving in the opposite direction, non-compliance with the age limit for the use of e-scooters, not wearing a protective helmet, etc. [25,27,38], are just some of the issues that are often reported to the authorities. There is much controversy about parking, i.e., the occupation of space by e-scooters, although this statement was refuted in a recent study, which showed that only 1.1% of e-scooters blocked a passage or had a negative impact on the effective width of pedestrian passages [39].…”

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The E-Scooter Potential to Change Urban Mobility—Belgrade Case Study

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As we witness a global change occurring with the advent of e-scooters (electric scooters), it is clear that adequate measures need to be taken for the implementation of this means of transport. Bearing in mind that the user should be the focus of the proposed measures, the aim of this paper encompasses the analysis of e-scooter users’ travel patterns, as well as standard scooter users’ willingness to switch to e-scooters for different hypothetical scenarios, and the determination of factors that have an influence on the users’ willingness to switch. The scenarios include the availability of various infrastructure capacities for the city of Belgrade, namely, a separate infrastructure for e-scooters, or sharing the existing infrastructure with cyclists, pedestrians and motor vehicles. Standard methods of descriptive statistics, the McNemar–Bowker test of paired samples, and multinomial logistic regression were used in this paper. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference in users’ willingness to use an e-scooter, depending on the available infrastructure. The results of multinomial logistic regression showed that the mode of transport used before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the average distance traveled, had a statistically significant impact on the users’ willingness to switch to e-scooters if they were allowed to use the cycling infrastructure. This paper also identifies additional factors that have a positive (environmental benefits, congestion avoidance) and negative (safety issues, lack of infrastructure, etc.) impact on users’ willingness to switch, which can be of use to decision-makers as a basic guideline for the adequate implementation of e-scooters in transport systems.

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“…Types of shared micro-mobility services include station-based bike-sharing, dockless bike-sharing, and E-scooter sharing. E-scooter services have emerged as a commonly used micro-mobility mode in cities [2,[5][6][7]. The first E-scooter sharing program was launched in the U.S. in September 2017 [8].…”

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“…Past research regarding E-scooters and dockless mobility has identified the usage and travel patterns of E-scooter users [5,9,14] and characteristics of E-scooter user injuries [6,15]. Shah et al proved that E-scooter crash characteristics do not fully replicate the features of other shared micro-mobility crashes [7].…”

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Understanding E-Scooter Incidents Patterns in Street Network Perspective: A Case Study of Travis County, Texas

2021

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Dockless electric scooter (E-scooters) services have emerged in the United States as an alternative form of micro transit in the past few years. With the increasing popularity of E-scooters, it is important for cities to manage their usage to create and maintain safe urban environments. However, E-scooter safety in U.S. urban environments remains unexplored due to the lack of traffic and crash data related to E-scooters. Our study objective is to better understand E-scooter crashes from a street network perspective. New parcel level street network data are obtained from Zillow and curated in Geographic Information System (GIS). We conducted local Moran’s I and independent Z-test to compare where and how the street network that involves E-scooter crash differs spatially with traffic incidents. The analysis results show that there is a spatial correlation between E-scooter crashes and traffic incidents. Nevertheless, E-scooter crashes do not fully replicate characteristics of traffic incidents. Compared to traffic incidents, E-scooter incidents tend to occur adjacent to traffic signals and on primary roads.

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Notes on the practices and appearances of e-scooter users in public space

Cited by 84 publications

References 37 publications

Consumer acceptance of shared e-scooters for urban and short-distance mobility

Consumer acceptance of shared e-scooters for urban and short-distance mobility

The E-Scooter Potential to Change Urban Mobility—Belgrade Case Study

Understanding E-Scooter Incidents Patterns in Street Network Perspective: A Case Study of Travis County, Texas

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