Who uses shared micro-mobility services? Empirical evidence from Zurich, Switzerland
By Daniel J. Reck, Kay W. Axhausen. 2021
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Abstract Shared micro-mobility services have rapidly gained popularity yet challenged city administrations to develop adequate policies while scientific insight is largely missing. From a transportation equity perspective, it is particularly important to understand user correlates, as they are the beneficiaries from public investment and reallocation of public space. This paper provides an up-to-date account of shared micro-mobility adoption and user characteristics in Zurich, Switzerland. Our results suggest that shared micro-mobility users tend to be young, university-educated males with full-time employment living in affluent households without children or cars. Shared e-scooter users, in particular, are younger, yet more representative of the general population in terms of education, full-time employment, income and gender than bike-sharing users. This suggests that shared e-scooters may contribute to transportation equity, yet their promotion should be handled with care as life-cycle emissions exceed those of bike-sharing and equity contributions might be skewed as many users are students.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Marketing, Transportation
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- Mode choice, substitution patterns and environmental impacts of shared and personal micro-mobility (2021, background): “Vehicle ownership appears to correlate with 114 shared vehicle usage, i.e. those who own e-scooters/e-bikes are more likely to use shared e-115 scooters/e-bikes as well (Fishman et al., 2013; Reck and Axhausen, 2021; Shaheen et al., 2011).”