Electric scooters growing at ?unprecedented pace,? finds new transit survey
New micromobility services enjoy ?fairly broad public support,? have high adoption rates As dockless electric scooters enter more and more U.S. cities, these new modes of urban transit continue to outrun the ability of cities to study and regulate them.
A team of MIT and University of California at Berkeley scholars at the San Francisco-based transportation data and analytics company Populus has started to fill in the gaps with a new report assessing user attitudes around the new services.
A new nationwide survey, ?The Micromobility Revolution: The Introduction and Adoption of Electric Scooters in the United States,? found widespread support for the dockless electric scooters?70 percent of respondents like these new services?and evidence this new form of transportation can address transit equity issues. ?Our large-scale data from across major U.S. cities reveals that these new micromobility services enjoy fairly broad public support and have remarkably high adoption rates given their recent arrival,? said Regina Clewlow, CEO and cofounder of Populus and former transportation research scientist. She described the adoption rate as ?unprecedented.?
Polling 7,000 users across 11 U.S. cities, the study found that adoption was ?accelerating faster than ever,? due to both the proliferation of smartphones and the general uptick in new mobility options.
In fact, the adoption rate is exponentially higher than other shared mobility options. In 2013, more than...
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