Towards a Sustainable City Policy for Managing Shared Dockless E-Scooters

Based on the anonymized dataset of one million shared scooter rides collected by the Tel Aviv municipality, the authors investigate the behavior of the shared e-scooter users in Tel Aviv and the resulting dynamics of the scooters’ spatio-temporal patterns. The users’ choice of the shared e-scooters as a transportation mode follows fast and frugal heuristics: the user who activated the shared scooter’s application continues with the ride when the closest available scooter is close enough, at up to 50-100 meters from her. Riders strongly prefer bike paths for riding and essentially deviate from the shortest path between the origin and destination and choose the routes with the higher percentage of bike paths. The longer the route, the higher the fraction of the bike paths in the rider’s route and the difference between the shortest and chosen paths. The authors also demonstrate that the operators fail to match the supply to the demand and the scooters are oversupplied in the central part of the city, where the demand is high, and undersupplied in the rest of the city, where the demand is essentially lower. Based on the analysis the authors propose a new policy of spatial adjustment between the demand and supply.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2024.06.083
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187705092401319X
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Shahal, Ofer
  • Benenson, Itzhak
  • Ogulenko, Aleksey
  • Talor, Arik
• Conference:
  • 15th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT)
  • Location: Hasselt , Belgium
  • Date: 2024-4-23 to 2024-4-25
• Publication Date: 2024

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 722-727
• Serial:
  • Procedia Computer Science
  • Volume: 238
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0509
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770509
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Management; Micromobility; Scooters; Travel behavior; Urban transportation policy; Vehicle sharing
• Geographic Terms: Tel Aviv (Israel)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Policy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01929819
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 9 2024 3:16PM