A Comparative Analysis of E-Scooter and E-Bike Usage Patterns: Findings from the City of Austin, TX

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04033v1
• Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 03:27:44 GMT
• Title: A Comparative Analysis of E-Scooter and E-Bike Usage Patterns: Findings from the City of Austin, TX
• Authors: Mohammed Hamad Almannaa, Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Mohammed Elhenawy, Mahmoud Masoud, Andry Rakotonirainy, and Hesham Rakha
• Abstract summary: We investigate how average trip speed change depending on the day of the week and the time of the day. Users tend to ride e-bikes and e-scooters with a slower average speed for recreational purposes compared to when they are ridden for commuting purposes.
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• Abstract: E-scooter-sharing and e-bike-sharing systems are accommodating and easing the increased traffic in dense cities and are expanding considerably. However, these new micro-mobility transportation modes raise numerous operational and safety concerns. This study analyzes e-scooter and dockless e-bike sharing system user behavior. We investigate how average trip speed change depending on the day of the week and the time of the day. We used a dataset from the city of Austin, TX from December 2018 to May 2019. Our results generally show that the trip average speed for e-bikes ranges between 3.01 and 3.44 m/s, which is higher than that for e-scooters (2.19 to 2.78 m/s). Results also show a similar usage pattern for the average speed of e-bikes and e-scooters throughout the days of the week and a different usage pattern for the average speed of e-bikes and e-scooters over the hours of the day. We found that users tend to ride e-bikes and e-scooters with a slower average speed for recreational purposes compared to when they are ridden for commuting purposes. This study is a building block in this field, which serves as a first of its kind, and sheds the light of significant new understanding of this emerging class of shared-road users.

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