Shared electric scooters (e-scooters) have been deployed over the past year in urban areas around the world with widely varying weather conditions. Many agencies have trip level record data sharing agreements with e-scooter providers to provide insight into how this new transportation mode is used in the urban ecosystem. There are considerable anecdotal media reports of usage during widely varying weather conditions, but few studies have been conducted to examine the weather impact on urban e-scooter utilization. This paper uses statistical modelling to analyze hourly weather factors (surface temperature, precipitation, snow, wind speed) with hourly trips to understand the impact of weather on e-scooter usage. A six-month period of historical e-scooter trip data was acquired from City of Indianapolis for this study. Although the number of trips reduced over 80% during the winter months, the median trip distance and duration only dropped slightly. Scooter utilization rate per day also dropped by approximately two-thirds during winter months. Usage was more sensitive to temperatures below freezing and snowfall than rain.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Impact of Weather on Shared Electric Scooter Utilization


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2019-10-01


    Size :

    1163976 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Shared electric scooter parking lot

    LIANG FEI / JIANG YUHANG / LI ZIZHENG et al. | European Patent Office | 2023

    Free access

    Helmet box of shared electric scooter

    LU JIANGTAO | European Patent Office | 2020

    Free access

    SHARED ELECTRIC SCOOTER SMART RETURN DEVICE

    CHO SANG HYEON / KIM HYE JIN / SONG EUN JI et al. | European Patent Office | 2024

    Free access

    Helmet box for shared electric scooter

    JIANGTAO LU | European Patent Office | 2022

    Free access

    HELMET BOX FOR SHARED ELECTRIC SCOOTER

    LU JIANGTAO | European Patent Office | 2020

    Free access