A spatiotemporal analysis of e-scooters’ relationships with transit and station-based bikeshare

Authors

Xiang Yan
Wencui Yang
Xiaojian Zhang
Yiming Xu
Ilir Bejleri
Xilei Zhao

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2021

Subject Area

mode - bike, mode - other, mode - subway/metro, place - north america, place - urban, ridership - behaviour, ridership - mode choice

Keywords

e-scooters, public transit, station-based bikeshare

Abstract

To address the policy question of how e-scooters interact with existing public mobility options, we conduct a spatiotemporal analysis of e-scooters’ relationships with public transit and station-based bikeshare in Washington DC. Results suggest that e-scooters have both competing and complementary effects on transit and bikeshare. The service areas of the three modes largely overlap, and most e-scooter trips could have been made by transit or bikeshare. A travel-time-based analysis further reveals that when choosing e-scooters over transit, travelers pay a price premium but save some travel time. The price premium was greater during COVID-19 but the associated travel-time savings were smaller. This implies that public health considerations rather than time-cost tradeoffs were the main determinant of travel behavior during COVID-19. In addition, we find that e-scooters enhance mobility services for some underserved neighborhoods. Before COVID-19, about 10% of all e-scooter trips were taken to connect with the Metrorail system.

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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Recommended Citation

Yan, X., Bejleri, I., & Zhai, L. (2021). A spatiotemporal analysis of transit accessibility to low-wage jobs in Miami-Dade County. Journal of Transport Geography, Vol. 98, 103088.