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Title:

The Perspectives on E-scooters Use: A Longitudinal Approach to Understanding E-scooter Travel Behavior in Portland, Oregon

Accession Number:

01763538

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Unique travel behavior patterns are observed as shared electric scooters (e-scooters) provided by private operators expand into U.S. cities. Three continuous years of e-scooter ridership survey data from the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s E-scooter Pilot Programs were analyzed to ascertain the longitudinal travel behavior patterns and demographic characteristics of e-scooter riders. Cross tabulation and chi-square tests are used to analyze e-scooter trip purposes, first time rider motives, and ridership demographics from 2018 to 2020 in Portland, OR. Similar municipal micromobility reports from Austin, TX; San Francisco, CA; and Santa, Monica, CA are compared against the Portland study to look for generalizable trends. Walking and ride hailing trips were consistently replaced with e-scooter trips over the three years of analysis. In 2020, utilitarian trips replaced recreation trips as the top trip purpose. Finally, there is additional preliminary findings that older riders might use e-scooters as a first/last mile solution to access public transportation.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP020 Standing Committee on Innovative Public Transportation Services and Technologies.

Report/Paper Numbers:

TRBAM-21-02645

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Puczkowskyj, Nicholas
Kim, Minju
MacArthur, John
Dill, Jennifer

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2021

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References (22) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Portland (Oregon)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2021 Paper #TRBAM-21-02645

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 23 2020 11:04AM