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The role of shared micromobility modes in the resilience of urban transportation systems: New challenges and opportunities

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Assessing micromobility systems’ resilience

The rise in urban traffic and environmental challenges has spurred a global exploration of sustainable transportation. Research shows the importance of these alternatives’ resilience, especially during periods of severe disruption. Enabling urban and transportation planners to assess and strategise for transport resilience within their specific contexts is of paramount importance. Addressing these needs, an enhanced and comprehensive evaluation system can empower urban and transportation planners to appraise and strategise for transport resilience within their particular geographical settings. Supported by EU funding, the ROMSUR project delves into shared micromobility systems to gauge their resilience. This study scrutinises usage patterns pre-, during and post-pandemic within prominent programmes, encompassing bike sharing and e-scooter sharing.

Objective

Increasing urban traffic and environmental challenges have driven the investigation, development, and diversification of sustainable transportation alternatives globally. The resilience of these alternatives has also been considered equally important in recent research in order to ensure a more safe, accessible, and equitable transportation system during severe disruptions. However, there is a lack of comprehensive evaluation system through which urban and transportation planners can assess and plan for transport resilience in their own geographical contexts. In this regard, this research proposes a model to evaluate an overall resilience of shared micromobillity systems through their commonly available usage patterns in light of current challenges and future opportunities. Specifically, it takes major shared micromobillity programs (e.g. station-based bike-sharing (SBBS), free-floating bike-sharing (FFBS), free-floating e-bike sharing (FFEBS), and free-floating e-scooter sharing (FFESS)) operating in Europe as examples to empirically analyze the mobility patterns of their users across three timescales: before, during, and after the pandemic. As a methodology, this study will utilize a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques. The expected outcomes will help in improving governance and an appropriate appraisal of sustainable urban transport alternatives, which are still in its infancy. The resilience assessment tool will further help develop long-term systems for measuring and executing mobility plans on both sides of the mobility equation: supply and demand.

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Masarykova univerzita
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€ 166 278,72
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Zerotinovo namesti 9
601 77 Brno
Czechia

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Česko Jihovýchod Jihomoravský kraj
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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