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With the growing concern on the environmental issues and limited fossil fuel, the importance of eco-friendly vehicles has been emphasized. The personal mobility vehicle (PMV) has been studied and implemented on global basis, so that it can be possible to expand toward a larger market. PMV development is being expedited in order to promote a new segment in the vehicle market. PMVs can provide additional merits in regards to the rapidly growing numbers of aging population, car sharing application, convenient transfer within stations or inter-modal application, local city tours and other short-distance driving areas of urban transport applications. Hence, promotion of PMV should be evaluated systematically through R&D support in order to introduce a new mode of transport system. In this paper, the current status of PMV policies, technological factor and social factor, which are related with PMV will be discussed to enhance PMV diffusion to the market. From evaluated data, strategic planning for PMV promotions based on evaluated results are proposed and discussed.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP020 Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies. Alternate title: Strategic Policy Proposal on Electric Personal Mobility Vehicles as a New Segment

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14-4922

English

18p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Photos; References; Tables

Ecodriving; Electric vehicles; Environmental impacts; Miniature automobiles; Mobility; Strategic planning; Sustainable development; Vehicle sharing

Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-4922

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 3:44PM