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E-scooter sharing became popular around the mid-2010s, with significant growth and widespread adoption occurring in various cities around the world. As a new form of urban micro-mobility, e-scooter sharing programs made their debut in the United States in 2017 as a type of shared micro-mobility in cities. In the US, 84 million journeys were made on electric scooters and shared bikes in 2018, more than twice as many as were made in 2017. 38.5 million of these journeys were made on shared e-scooters (NACTO, 2019). Since the first providers arrived in Paris in the summer of 2018, self-service and dockless rental micromobility services have spread throughout Europe. The city Paris is an example of how micro-mobility choices have spread throughout Europe. In June 2018 in Paris, Lime, the first e-scooter sharing service, was introduced. After one year of launching this system, the number of e-scooters reach 20,000 units managed by 12 different operators (Gauquelin, 2020). Over 1 million e-scooter rides were taken in Madrid, Prague, and Greece up until 2019. According to Lime, the number of e-scooter rides exceeded 100 million in 2019. In the second semester of 2019, South Korea became the most recent country in Asia to allow the use of e-scooters for transportation (Dias et al, 2021). Since 2018, the primary vehicles of transportation for micro-mobility have changed from non-electric dockless bikes to dockless e-bikes and e-scooters. Shared e-scooter use in the system, according to NACTO, increased the number of micromobility journeys from 35 million in 2017 to 84 million in 2018.
With the introduction of shared e-scooters to the market as a new mobility option, they have gained considerable popularity due to their advantages for micro distance trips. Shared e-scooters have advantages as not producing greenhouse gas, providing cost-effective transportation option, and having an easy access for users by using apps. But the important question is whether as a new form of urban micromobility, how could we define the relation and integration of shared e-scooters with public transportation. Hence, the primary aim of this study is to analyze how publications on e-scooters differ in terms of their objectives and methodologies, identify the most prominent research areas, and explore aspects that remain underexamined in the literature.
This study employes systematic literature review, bibliometric analysis, and content analysis to consider shared e-scooter systems and their relationship with public transportation, and shared e-scooter systems in Ankara, Turkey. The main motivation of the literature review is to identify the publications which investigates the impacts of e-scooters on public transport systems and their relationship, and the impacts of e-scooters on modal shifts. Hence, Transportation Research Board Publications Index was searched for publications related to e-scooters. VOSviewer software is used to conduct a bibliometric analysis to visualize and analyze of the evolution of the concept of “e-scooter” based on relevant publications. Web of Science is used as a bibliographic database and as input to VOSviewer for constructing a network. On the other side, the content analyses conducted by using MAXQDA software.
These publications were systematically processed to document their key attributes, including Transportation Research Thesaurus terms, keywords, research approach, data sources, data gathering and analysis methods, geographic terms, scale, aim, research questions, variables, results, and limitations. Following this analysis, these articles were systematically categorized into seven distinct groups: Travel Behavior, Safety, Policy, Multi Modal Transport, Vehicle Mix and Design, Covid-19 and E-Scooters Usage, Data and Information Technologies. According to synthesis of common findings and the analysis this study discusses and determines the less explored themes in terms of shared e-scooters and e-scooter usage and regulations in Ankara, Turkey.
References
Dias, Gabriel., Arsenio, Elisabete., and Ribeiro, Paulo (2021) The Role of Shared E-Scooter Systems in Urban Sustainability and Resilience during the Covid-19 Mobility Restrictions, Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7084, [Online] available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137084
NACTO (2019) NACTO Guidelines for Regulating Shared Mobility. National Association of City Transportation Officials. [Online] available at: https://nacto.org/sharedmicromobilityguidelines/
Gauquelin, Alexandre (2020) Analysis of Paris’ e-scooter RFP. [Online] available at: https://shared-micromobility.com/analysis-of-paris-escooter-rfp/ [Accessed: 23 May 2023]
| Keywords | micromobility; e-scooter sharing; public transportation; content analyses; bibliometric analysis |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
