A comparative analysis of e-scooter and e-bike usage patterns: Findings from the City of Austin, TX

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2020-11-30

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Mohammed Hamad Almannaa, Huthaifa I. Ashqar, Mohammed Elhenawy, Mahmoud Masoud, Andry Rakotonirainy & Hesham Rakha (2021) A comparative analysis of e-scooter and e-bike usage patterns: Findings from the City of Austin, TX, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 15:7, 571-579, DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2020.1833117

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This is the submitted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation on 30 Nov 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2020.1833117.

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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.