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Planning Suitable Transport Networks for E-Scooters to Foster Micromobility Spreading
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Fazio, Martina Giuffrida, Nadia Pira, Michela Le Inturri, Giuseppe Ignaccolo, Matteo |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Micromobility has a high potential to change mobility habits towards the use of sustainable transport modes. The shared mobility paradigm encourages the development of new mobility services, such as bike and e-scooter sharing, potentially reducing the need of car ownership, enlarging the accessibility of public transport and enriching the transport options needed to exploit Mobility as a Service solutions. While bike-sharing services have been used in urban areas for many years, shared e-scooter services (and private e-scooters) have been spreading only in the last few years. Due to the novelty of this mode, few attempts have been made for proper micromobility network planning. This paper proposes a multicriteria GIS-based analysis aimed at planning priority networks for e-scooters, focusing on safety, transport and land use characteristics. The case study is Catania, a medium-sized city in southern Italy, which suffers from a lack of adequate infrastructures for such sustainable modes of transport. By applying the methodology, it is possible to prioritise the road network elements that better fit the needs of e-scooters, thus paving the way for suitable infrastructures and network planning. |
| Starting Page | 11422 |
| e-ISSN | 20711050 |
| DOI | 10.3390/su132011422 |
| Journal | Sustainability |
| Issue Number | 20 |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-10-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Sustainability Transportation Transportation Science and Technology Shared Mobility Gis-analysis Transport Planning Multicriteria Analysis |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
