Personal Mobility Sharing: A Simulation Study
Standing type personal mobility is promising for future urban transportation. In communities, sharing a personal mobility unit is more beneficial than individual ownership. In this paper, the authors conduct a multi-agent simulation to investigate how human behavior changes, especially modal shift, when such mobility units are introduced. The authors develop a prototype simulator in anticipation of the high demand for personal mobility sharing stations; in particular, the authors focus on station location and capacity. Simulation parameters are determined by experiments conducted in the Mobility Robot Experimental Zone in Tsukuba using a Toyota Winglet and by analyzing data collected from questionnaires. The goal of their simulation is to predict and plan for future demands for personal mobility transportation.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Traveler Behavior and Values.
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Authors:
- Tomita, Kohji
- Hashimoto, Naohisa
- Matsumoto, Osamu
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
- Date: 2015
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 14p
- Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Demand; Location; Modal shift; Simulation; Travel behavior
- Candidate Terms: Shared-use vehicle systems
- Identifier Terms: Segway Human Transporter
- Uncontrolled Terms: Personal mobility devices; Vehicle sharing stations
- Geographic Terms: Tsukuba (Japan)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01556836
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 15-2074
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 12 2015 11:55AM