Dockless Scooter Travel: A Land Use Model with Implications for California

This research builds a land use regression model to explain dockless scooter trip generations. The authors use publicly available scooter trip generation data for Louisville, Kentucky and Minneapolis, Minnesota and publicly available data on land use characteristics. The model shows that scooter trip generations are associated with higher employment densities, higher densities of entertainment land uses (bars and clubs), and in some specifications higher densities of eating establishments and university buildings. The authors establish that using the regression results to predict out of sample gives predictions that correspond well to observed scooter trip generations in Austin, Texas. Because scooter trip data are not available for research in California, the authors use the Minneapolis model to predict scooter trips as a function of land use characteristics in California census tracts. The results yield a promising screening method that can highlight census tracts with land use characteristics that are potentially supportive of micromobility and non-automobile short-trip travel. The authors recommend that such a screening method can be a first step in more detailed analyses of planning programs or infrastructure that could support non-automobile short-trip travel.

• Record URL:
  https://www.metrans.org/assets/research/psr-19-02_to-014_boarnet_final-report.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  https://www.metrans.org/research/dockless-scooter-travel-a-land-use-model-with-implications-for-california
• Summary URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/68340
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/60532
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  Sol Price School of Public Policy
  Los Angeles, CA  United States 

  METRANS Transportation Center

  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089-0626

  Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center

  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Boarnet, Marlon G
  • 0000-0002-0890-347X
  • Mallett, Zakhary
  • Pilgram, Clemens
• Publication Date: 2021-3-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 47p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Land use; Scooters; Trip generation
• Geographic Terms: California; Louisville (Kentucky); Minneapolis (Minnesota)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01786718
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: PSR-19-02
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747109; TO-014
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 29 2021 12:17PM