Impact of e-scooter sharing on bike sharing in Chicago

As a new type of shared micromobility, e-scooter sharing first appeared in the United States and became popular worldwide. Considering e-scooter sharing and bike sharing have similar service attributes, the ridership of bike sharing may be affected by the introduction of e-scooter sharing. To date, studies exploring this impact are limited. In this study, the authors seek to analyze the impact of e-scooter sharing on the usage of bike sharing from trip data of e-scooter sharing and bike sharing in Chicago for a total of 30 weeks. The authors rely on a difference-in-differences modeling approach based on the propensity score matching method. The authors found that the average duration of e-scooter trips is shorter than that of bike trips. The introduction of e-scooter sharing reduced the overall bike sharing usage by 23.4 trips per week per station (10.2%). bike sharing usage of non-members and members decreased by 18.0 (34.1%) and 5.4 (4.0%) trips, and that of male and female members decreased by 3.3 (3.1%) and 2.0 (7.3%) trips, respectively. Furthermore, the volume of short-, medium-, and long-duration trips of bike sharing decreased by 10.9 (7.5%), 5.4 (9.6%), and 3.4 trips (20.5%), respectively. Finally, bike sharing use during non-peak hours decreased but was not affected during peak hours.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.09.012
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856421002445
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• Authors:
  • Yang, Hongtai
  • Huo, Jinghai
  • Bao, Yongxing
  • Li, Xuan
  • Yang, Linchuan
  • Cherry, Christopher R
• Publication Date: 2021-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 23-36
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 154
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycles; Electric vehicles; Mobility; Ridership; Scooters; Statistical analysis; Vehicle sharing
• Geographic Terms: Chicago (Illinois)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01788415
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 17 2021 2:27PM