Is micro-mobility sustainable? An overview of implications for accessibility, air pollution, safety, physical activity and subjective wellbeing

Milakis, Dimitris; Gebhardt, Laura; Ehebrecht, Daniel; Lenz, Barbara

doi:10.4337/9781789900477.00030

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“…Bikesharing, on the other hand, is used for slightly longer trips averaging in the range of 1.3 to 3.1 km Lazarus et al, 2020). Due to its size and speed, shared micromobility increases accessibility (Abduljabbar et al, 2021) to PT (Shaheen et al, 2013;Abduljabbar et al, 2021;Bai and Jiao, 2020) and social equity by facilitating less mobile user groups' participation in social life (Milakis et al, 2020;Sanders et al, 2020).…”

Section: Recent Work About Bike-and E-scootersharingmentioning

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What drives the utility of shared transport services for urban travellers? A stated preference survey in German cities

Krauss

Krail

Axhausen

2022

Travel Behaviour and Society

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The supply of shared mobility solutions has been increasing during the last years, so has the popularity of Mobility-as-a-Service. Both promise an easy access to and usage of shared vehicles or shared rides. Nevertheless, usage of these services remains low in German cities. Hence, the question arises: what determines the utility of travellers regarding shared modes and how is this different to conventional modes? To answer this, we conduct a stated preference experiment amongst 1,445 respondents (8,670 observations). The sample is drawn from residents of the 83 largest cities in Germany. We consider four shared (e-scooter-, bike-, carsharing, and ridepooling) and three conventional modes (walking, private car, and public transport). We estimate a mixed logit model and calculate the respective value of travel time (VoT) as well as the value of access, egress, and parking search time. The importance of the individual attributes is analysed drawing on a part-worth analysis. Further, we calculate average treatment effects to show simulated mode-choice probability changes. We find that costs are more important than travel time for carsharing and ridepooling whilst they are equally important for the remaining modes. For shared services, access is more important than egress. Moreover, among the shared services, e-scootersharing shows the highest VoT (23.73 EUR/h), followed by bikesharing (18.53 EUR/h). Finally, cost changes to private cars and public transport show the highest simulated shifting potential with carsharing profiting most from cost increases in these two modes.

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Section: Recent Work About Bike-and E-scootersharingmentioning

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What drives the utility of shared transport services for urban travellers? A stated preference survey in German cities

Krauss

Krail

Axhausen

2022

Travel Behaviour and Society

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“…In recent years, shared micro-mobility services have attracted considerable attention in academic and industrial fields, which have proved to be able to facilitate alleviating traffic congestion and transport-related emissions ( Li et al, 2021 , McKenzie, 2020 , Milakis et al, 2020 , Wang and Zhou, 2017 , Zhang and Mi, 2018 ). Especially, with the rapid development of mobile computing and payment, micro-mobility services have been realized as effective alternatives to short- and medium-distance trips by public and private car transportation.…”

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How did micro-mobility change in response to COVID-19 pandemic? A case study based on spatial-temporal-semantic analytics

Zhao

et al. 2021

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

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Cities worldwide adopted lockdown policies in response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), significantly influencing people's travel behavior. In particular, micro-mobility, an emerging mode of urban transport, is profoundly shaped by this crisis. However, there is limited research devoted to understanding the rapidly evolving trip patterns of micro-mobility in response to COVID-19. To fill this gap, we analyze the changes in micro-mobility usage before and during the lockdown period exploiting high-resolution micro-mobility trip data collected in Zurich, Switzerland. Specifically, docked bike, docked e-bike, and dockless e-bike are evaluated and compared from the perspective of space, time and semantics. First, the spatial and temporal analysis results uncover that the number of trips decreased remarkably during the lockdown period. The striking difference between the normal and lockdown period is the decline in the peak hours of workdays. Second, the origin-destination flows are used to construct spatially embedded networks. The results suggest that the origin-destination pairs remain similar during the lockdown period, while the numbers of trips between each origin-destination pair is reduced due to COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the semantic analysis is conducted to uncover the changes in trip purpose. It is revealed that the proportions of Home, Park, and Grocery activities increase, while the proportions of Leisure and Shopping activities decrease during the lockdown period. The above results can help planners and policymakers better make evidence-based policies regarding micro-mobility in the post-pandemic society.

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“…It should be noted that the rapid increase in the popularity of shared micro-mobility services was and still is a certain challenge for city authorities and public administration, e.g. in terms of appropriate legal regulations regarding the use of various forms of micro-mobility, the issue of adapting transport infrastructure, and ensuring the safety of pedestrians who are at risk of being hit by users of micro-mobility modes (Milakis et al, 2020;Reck & Axhausen, 2021). In addition, attention is also drawn to the fact that rare metals as well as fossil fuel energy are used in the production of batteries to power micro-mobility electric modes (Milakis et al, 2020).…”

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Motives for and Barriers to the Use of Electric Moped Scooter Sharing Services

Bartkowiak

Michalak

Młodzik

2021

Marketing of Scientific and Research Organizations

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In line with the concept of sustainable development, changes in various forms of urban transport have been observed over the past few years, and the implementation of low-emission transport solutions is becoming a priority for local government. One of the key changes observed worldwide taking place on the urban transport market is the dynamic development of various forms of shared micro-mobility. One of these forms are electric moped scooter sharing services and despite their rapid growth in popularity, the existing research contributions on determinants of the use of this micro-mobility mode are limited to only a few studies. The goal of this paper is to advance knowledge regarding the motives and barriers to the use of electric moped scooter sharing services. The paper discusses the results of a study that was carried out in 2021 on a sample of 352 Polish users of electric moped scooter sharing services. The most important reasons for using these services included the convenience of this mobility mode and no city parking costs. The biggest barriers in choosing this micro-mobility mode for Polish consumers were those related to the safety of use.

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Is micro-mobility sustainable? An overview of implications for accessibility, air pollution, safety, physical activity and subjective wellbeing

Cited by 33 publications

References 31 publications

What drives the utility of shared transport services for urban travellers? A stated preference survey in German cities

What drives the utility of shared transport services for urban travellers? A stated preference survey in German cities

How did micro-mobility change in response to COVID-19 pandemic? A case study based on spatial-temporal-semantic analytics

Motives for and Barriers to the Use of Electric Moped Scooter Sharing Services

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