Determining the Location of Shared Electric Micro-Mobility Stations in Urban Environment

Locating shared electric micro-mobility stations in urban environments involves balancing multiple objectives, including accessibility, profitability, sustainability, operational costs, and social considerations. This study investigates traveler preferences regarding shared electric micro-mobility stations, focusing on factors influencing their location decisions. The study used the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model to analyze the criteria and determine their relative importance in influencing the location decisions of shared electric micro-mobility stations as evaluated by experts in transportation fields. The examined criteria are proximity to public transportation, accessibility to key destinations, demographics (e.g., age, and income), safety, land use, and pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure. Using the AHP model, the importance and ranking of each criterion were established. Results indicate that the availability and quality of sidewalks and bike lanes in the vicinity, along with the proximity to popular destinations like shopping centers and tourist attractions, emerge as the most influential criteria. The least important criteria were the demographics such as the young age percentage in the area and the average income of the surrounding population. These findings underscore the critical importance of well-maintained infrastructure for pedestrian and cyclist mobility, as well as the need for convenient access to high-traffic areas. Such insights provide valuable guidance for informed decision making regarding the optimal placement of shared electric micro-mobility stations.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci8020064
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright: © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
• Authors:
  • Jaber, Ahmed
  • 0000-0001-5493-2530
  • Ashqar, Huthaifa
  • 0000-0002-6835-8338
  • Csonka, Bálint
  • 0000-0002-4976-8294
• Publication Date: 2024-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 13p
• Serial:
  • Urban Science
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: MDPI AG
  • ISSN: 2413-8851
  • Serial URL: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/urbansci
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analytic hierarchy process; Consumer preferences; Electric vehicles; Location; Micromobility; Shared mobility; Urban areas
• Subject Areas: Energy; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01929487
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 4 2024 5:08PM