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  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,340 Views
14 Pages

30 November 2023

E-scooter sharing systems are a new mobility solution that is emerging in cities all throughout the world. Its rapid diffusion and disruptive nature have gained immediate attention from scholars, decision-makers, the public and the media (with strong...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,200 Views
17 Pages

Influence of Dockless Shared E-Scooters on Urban Mobility: WTP and Modal Shift

  • Draženko Glavić,
  • Marina Milenković,
  • Aleksandar Trifunović,
  • Igor Jokanović and
  • Jelica Komarica

14 June 2023

Land use largely depends on the traffic policy of a city. The appearance of e-scooters can greatly affect the visual distribution of transportation, and thus the occupation of land, primarily in the central areas of cities. E-scooters as a shared mic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Citations
21,145 Views
19 Pages

24 June 2021

Shared e-scooter systems were first introduced in 2017 and have since been spreading around the world as a sustainable mode of transport. The success of this mode is also due to new urban mobility strategies and plans, such as the European Sustainabl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
11,147 Views
27 Pages

Where Have Shared E-Scooters Taken Us So Far? A Review of Mobility Patterns, Usage Frequency, and Personas

  • Samira Dibaj,
  • Aryan Hosseinzadeh,
  • Miloš N. Mladenović and
  • Robert Kluger

26 October 2021

The emergence of micromobility services in the form of dockless shared e-scooters has resulted in a wide range of behavioral changes in urban environments. In order to effectively steer these changes towards sustainability targets, the characteristic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
126 Citations
25,427 Views
17 Pages

4 August 2021

Shared e-scooters refer to a micro-mobility service that enables the short rentals of e-scooters. The rapid growth of e-scooter sharing has sparked a heated discussion about its role in the urban mobility sector. This article presents a systematic re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,329 Views
25 Pages

19 February 2021

Current mobility trends indicate that the popularity of privately-owned cars will decrease in the near future. One reason for this development is the diffusion of mobility services such as car or bike sharing, or Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) bundles....

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,038 Views
24 Pages

17 August 2023

The transport sector is undergoing disruption due to trends such as tightening environmental targets, digitalization, and servitization, contributing to low-carbon mobility and offering citizen-oriented services. As a response, various initiatives, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,752 Views
15 Pages

Flexible Mobile Hub for E-Bike Sharing and Cruise Tourism: A Case Study

  • Andrea Bardi,
  • Luca Mantecchini,
  • Denis Grasso,
  • Filippo Paganelli and
  • Caterina Malandri

2 October 2019

Bike sharing is no longer a novelty in transportation and has now become a mobility solution in its own right. This study investigated the potential scope of application of e-bike sharing solutions for a niche sector such as cruise tourism, the impor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,846 Views
15 Pages

3 November 2022

The growing popularity of traveling with electric scooters in recent years is, on the one hand, a great opportunity to shift from the current forms of mobility to a new service among the public, but it is also a huge challenge for urban centers and o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,592 Views
19 Pages

A Holistic Approach to Electric Shared Mobility Systems Development—Modelling and Optimization Aspects

  • Katarzyna Turoń,
  • Andrzej Kubik,
  • Feng Chen,
  • Hualan Wang and
  • Bogusław Łazarz

6 November 2020

Due to the development of the shared economy, increasingly more shared mobility providers have launched services based on the use of electric vehicles. The increasing growth of electric shared mobility services has produced various types of problems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,439 Views
24 Pages

Micro-Sharing Mobility for Sustainable Cities: Bike or Scooter Sharing?

  • Angela Stefania Bergantino,
  • Mario Intini and
  • Lucia Rotaris

14 October 2024

Urban pollution awareness is a subject of widespread debate, particularly regarding the role of future urban transportation. In recent years, local policymakers and private operators have implemented various measures to address the negative impacts o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
169 Citations
22,472 Views
13 Pages

19 November 2020

New, shared mobility modes, including dockless e-scooters and e-bikes, were recently introduced to many cities around the world. The aim of this article is to determine the differences between the users of e-bike sharing, and e-scooter sharing system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,458 Views
33 Pages

Sustainable urban mobility is an imperative concern in contemporary cities, and shared micromobility systems, such as docked bike-sharing, dockless bike-sharing, and dockless e-scooter-sharing, are recognized as essential contributors to sustainable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,300 Views
13 Pages

29 November 2022

Car-sharing systems, i.e., short-term car rentals, are one of the solutions that can be an alternative to individual motorization in cities. However, these services must adapt well to customers’ needs to develop appropriately. Currently, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,231 Views
31 Pages

Aspects of E-Scooter Sharing in the Smart City

  • Yelena Popova and
  • Diana Zagulova

The contemporary urban environment faces such challenges as overloaded traffic, heavy pollution, and social problems, etc. The concept of the “smart city” allows solving some of these issues. One of the opportunities provided by the smart...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,754 Views
15 Pages

4 October 2022

Car-sharing systems, i.e., automatic, short-time car rentals, are among the solutions of the new mobility concept, which in recent years has gained popularity around the world. With the growing interest in services in society, their demands for the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
577 Views
32 Pages

12 December 2025

Bike-sharing services contribute to reducing emissions and conserving natural resources within urban transportation systems. They also promote public health by encouraging physical activity and generate economic benefits through shorter travel times,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,770 Views
15 Pages

An Approach to Model the Willingness to Use of E-Scooter Sharing Services in Different Urban Road Environments

  • Theodora Sorkou,
  • Panagiotis G. Tzouras,
  • Katerina Koliou,
  • Lambros Mitropoulos,
  • Christos Karolemeas and
  • Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou

25 November 2022

E-scooter sharing services been grown exponentially within the last five years. They are based on the flexibility of accessing dense urban areas without specialized infrastructure. In modern cities, there are diverse road environments that impact the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
10,154 Views
24 Pages

Perception Analysis of E-Scooter Riders and Non-Riders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Survey Outputs

  • Mohammed Hamad Almannaa,
  • Faisal Adnan Alsahhaf,
  • Huthaifa I. Ashqar,
  • Mohammed Elhenawy,
  • Mahmoud Masoud and
  • Andry Rakotonirainy

16 January 2021

This study explores the feasibility of launching an e-scooter sharing system as a new micro-mobility mode, and part of the public transportation system in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Therefore, survey was conducted in April 2020 to shed light o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,949 Views
20 Pages

15 December 2021

The objective of this study is to mine and analyze large-scale social media data (rich spatio-temporal data unlike traditional surveys) and develop comparative infographics of emerging transportation trends and mobility indicators by adopting natural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,479 Views
28 Pages

22 July 2019

In this paper, we show how to realize numerous spectrum licensing policies by means of time-domain enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) technique to share both the licensed and unlicensed spectrums with small cells in order to addres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,830 Views
16 Pages

14 November 2022

Shared e-scooters have the potential to increase access, complement transit, and replace automobiles, all while reducing emissions and congestion. However, there are concerns worldwide over the mode’s safety issues and risks. In this paper, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
607 Views
31 Pages

28 November 2025

Free-floating shared e-scooters (FFSE) have been promoted as a sustainable urban mobility solution, yet their true energy and environmental impact remain contested. This study conducts an attributional life cycle assessment (aLCA) across 32 cities in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,677 Views
12 Pages

25 November 2022

In recent years, the electromobility market has been growing faster and faster. Electric scooters and scooter-sharing services offered for them, available in many cities around the world, have a special impact on its intensification. The constantly g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,542 Views
27 Pages

Perception of Shared Electric Scooters: A Case Study from Poland

  • Katarzyna Turoń,
  • Andrzej Kubik,
  • Piotr Folęga and
  • Feng Chen

19 August 2023

Scooter-sharing services, that is, short-term rental of electric scooters, have been gaining popularity among last-mile transport solutions in recent years, winning both their supporters and opponents. Recognizing the different approaches of societie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,086 Views
24 Pages

Analysis of Electric Moped Scooter Sharing in Berlin: A Technical, Economic and Environmental Perspective

  • Chris Wortmann,
  • Anne Magdalene Syré,
  • Alexander Grahle and
  • Dietmar Göhlich

Electric moped scooter sharing services have recently experienced strong growth rates, particularly in Europe. Due to their compactness, environmental-friendliness and convenience, shared e-mopeds are suitable for helping to reduce the environmental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,905 Views
18 Pages

Operational Aspects of Electric Vehicles from Car-Sharing Systems

  • Katarzyna Turoń,
  • Andrzej Kubik and
  • Feng Chen

4 December 2019

The article was dedicated to the topic of energy consumption of driving cars equipped with an electric motor. Due to the emerging demands for the excessive use of energy by vehicles (including car-sharing system vehicles), the authors carried out res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,143 Views
17 Pages

23 November 2022

In the era of upcoming European Union regulations limiting the registration of combustion cars from 2035, the development of various types of alternatives to balancing transport is on the agenda of modern cities. One of these types of services includ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,475 Views
13 Pages

An Indicator-Based Methodological Framework for Assessing an eMaaS Scheme

  • Anastasia Nikolaidou,
  • Efthymis Papadopoulos,
  • Ioannis Politis and
  • Socrates Basbas

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and, more recently, electric Mobility as a Service (eMaaS) have increasingly been put forward to meet the economic, social, and environmental challenges linked to mobility. First, however, monitoring and evaluating such a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,586 Views
19 Pages

An Overview of Shared Mobility Operational Models in Europe

  • Luka Vidan,
  • Marko Slavulj,
  • Ivan Grgurević and
  • Matija Sikirić

7 April 2025

Climate change is an urgent issue, and the current mindset of private ownership, particularly of private vehicles, needs to shift. Shared mobility is rapidly emerging as a key part of the solution to contemporary transportation challenges, driven by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,458 Views
19 Pages

30 June 2021

Considering the controversial discussion about the sustainability and usefulness of e-scooters, in this study, we analyzed the substitution potential of e-scooters, especially with regard to car trips. Based on data from the national mobility survey...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,639 Views
24 Pages

A Spatiotemporal Study and Location-Specific Trip Pattern Categorization of Shared E-Scooter Usage

  • Maximilian Heumann,
  • Tobias Kraschewski,
  • Tim Brauner,
  • Lukas Tilch and
  • Michael H. Breitner

12 November 2021

This study analyzes the temporally resolved location and trip data of shared e-scooters over nine months in Berlin from one of Europe’s most widespread operators. We apply time, distance, and energy consumption filters on approximately 1.25 million t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,375 Views
17 Pages

Will Automotive Be the Future of Mobility? Striving for Six Zeros

  • Frank Rieck,
  • Kees Machielse and
  • Ron van Duin

Will automotive be the future of mobility or will the motorcar era come to an end in the 21st century? Today, auto-mobility is still growing, but in the future, this will depend on its ability to adapt to the needs of modern society. Disruptive techn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,244 Views
22 Pages

8 February 2020

In this paper, we present two spectrum sharing techniques for a multisystem, incorporating an integrated satellite-mobile system and an autonomous terrestrial-mobile system (iSMS/aTMS), namely orthogonal spectrum sharing (OSS) and non-orthogonal spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
198 Citations
14,097 Views
12 Pages

This paper investigated the travel patterns of 1.7 million shared E-scooter trips from April 2018 to February 2019 in Austin, TX. There were more than 6000 active E-scooters in operation each month, generating over 150,000 trips and covered approxima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,319 Views
15 Pages

3 June 2023

Shared electric scooters (e-scooters) offer a potential strategy to mitigate environmental concerns and congestion. However, successfully addressing these issues with e-scooters requires adoption across a diverse array of consumers. Understanding the...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,544 Views
14 Pages

Shared Mobility: Evolving Practices for Sustainability

  • Hugo Guyader,
  • Margareta Friman and
  • Lars E. Olsson

3 November 2021

This introductory paper to the Special Issue “Shared Mobility” aims (1) to present and differentiate the diversity of practices and services that constitute the shared mobility sector; (2) to emphasize the contribution of each published article; and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,211 Views
16 Pages

A Multi-Perspective Assessment of the Introduction of E-Scooter Sharing in Germany

  • Alexandra König,
  • Laura Gebhardt,
  • Kerstin Stark and
  • Julia Schuppan

24 February 2022

Electric scooter sharing (e-scooter sharing) is a new urban micro-mobility service that is expected to shape individual urban mobility. The introduction of e-scooter sharing systems poses challenging questions for cities and transportation planners r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,046 Views
18 Pages

Planning Suitable Transport Networks for E-Scooters to Foster Micromobility Spreading

  • Martina Fazio,
  • Nadia Giuffrida,
  • Michela Le Pira,
  • Giuseppe Inturri and
  • Matteo Ignaccolo

15 October 2021

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 th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,550 Views
24 Pages

7 October 2020

Recent years have seen a proliferation of platform-based “shared mobility services” (SMS) such as car-, bike-, and e-scooter-sharing in many cities in Germany and around the world. At the same time, these services have become the subject...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,255 Views
22 Pages

21 June 2024

In recent years, the implementation of shared electric micro-mobility services (SEMMS) enables short rentals of light electric vehicles for short-distance travel. The fast expansion of SEMMS worldwide, promoted as a green mobility service, has raised...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
11,275 Views
17 Pages

30 March 2022

Micromobility is often thought of as a sustainable solution to many urban mobility challenges. The literature to date, however, has struggled to find consensus on the sustainability of shared and electric scooters, e-bikes, and e-mopeds. This paper u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,237 Views
25 Pages

Sustainable Business Models for Innovative Urban Mobility Services

  • Adriano Alessandrini,
  • Fabio Cignini and
  • Fernando Ortenzi

Any sharing mobility service aims to make urban mobility sustainable to help reduce environmental impacts and improve the quality of life for all in cities. Many transport services are not currently self-sustainable. The Life for Silver Coast (LifeSC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,367 Views
18 Pages

31 March 2022

Shared micromobility is a new phenomenon being observed in urban transport. It is a response to the problems associated with congestion and environmental pollution. Small electric vehicles such as e-scooters are highly suitable for crowded city centr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,127 Views
12 Pages

The Acceptance and Use Behavior of Shared Mobility Services in a Rural Municipality

  • Cindy Schaefer,
  • Aida Stelter,
  • Sonja Holl-Supra,
  • Stephan Weber and
  • Björn Niehaves

22 September 2022

In rural regions, needs-based mobility services play an important role in the provision of public services. Shared Mobility Services can optimally complement local public transportation such as buses and trains, even in rural regions, and support the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,171 Views
26 Pages

Moped Scooter Sharing: Citizens’ Perceptions, Users’ Behavior, and Implications for Urban Mobility

  • Álvaro Aguilera-García,
  • Juan Gomez,
  • Natalia Sobrino and
  • Juan José Vinagre Díaz

18 June 2021

In recent years, moped-style scooter sharing is gaining increasing attention in many urban areas worldwide. Nevertheless, research contributions are still limited, unlike other shared mobility systems. This paper is aimed at providing a first insight...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,961 Views
21 Pages

While data-driven digital technologies (e.g., mobile applications) have brought convenience to users, they have also raised data privacy concerns. Regulators have taken various actions that ensure user data privacy to balance the protection and explo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
9,887 Views
20 Pages

Impact Assessments of New Mobility Services: A Critical Review

  • Tom Storme,
  • Corneel Casier,
  • Hossein Azadi and
  • Frank Witlox

11 March 2021

Assessing the impact of new mobility systems (e.g., shared mobility services, mobility as a service (MaaS), and Mobihubs) in urban contexts remains a challenging endeavor due to the varying priorities (social, economic, and environmental) of differen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
7,672 Views
19 Pages

Smart Contract-Enabled Secure Sharing of Health Data for a Mobile Cloud-Based E-Health System

  • P. Chinnasamy,
  • Ashwag Albakri,
  • Mudassir Khan,
  • A. Ambeth Raja,
  • Ajmeera Kiran and
  • Jyothi Chinna Babu

21 March 2023

Healthcare comprises the largest revenue and data boom markets. Sharing knowledge about healthcare is crucial for research that can help healthcare providers and patients. Several cloud-based applications have been suggested for data sharing in healt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,784 Views
16 Pages

The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has affected all areas of social life globally, including the economy. The world economy has declined due to purchasing power for individuals who have been forced to stay at home and cannot perform work. These...

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