E-bike to the future: scalability, emission-saving, and eco-efficiency assessment of shared electric mobility hubs
E-bike to the future: scalability, emission-saving, and eco-efficiency assessment of shared electric mobility hubs
In car-dominated urban areas, shared electric micro-mobility offers a sustainable alternative to decarbonise and reshape mobility paradigms. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating Dublin's e-bike sharing system, comprising 12 stations (eHUBs). Using six months of real-world riding data, it employs data envelopment analysis to assess the eco-efficiency of each eHUB in utilising nearby infrastructure, population in the catchment area, and location to achieve desired economic, social, and environmental outputs. Results indicate an upward trajectory for the system's eco-efficiency. The returns-to-scale analysis provides insights into the system's scalability, suggesting that expanding the e-bike sharing system, along with infrastructural enhancements, would significantly increase ridership. Analysing decarbonisation, usage patterns, and spatial factors of eHUBs reveals the substantial potential of shared e-bikes if optimally used. The research highlights the need to reevaluate car-centric policies in favour of more inclusive and environmentally sustainable alternatives and proposes actionable policy recommendations to achieve this transformation.
Data envelopment analysis, Decarbonization, E-bike, Micro-mobility, Scalability, Shared mobility
Hosseini, Keyvan
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Pramod Choudhari, Tushar
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Stefaniec, Agnieszka
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O'Mahony, Margaret
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Caulfield, Brian
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1 August 2024
Hosseini, Keyvan
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Pramod Choudhari, Tushar
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Stefaniec, Agnieszka
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O'Mahony, Margaret
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Caulfield, Brian
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Hosseini, Keyvan, Pramod Choudhari, Tushar, Stefaniec, Agnieszka, O'Mahony, Margaret and Caulfield, Brian
(2024)
E-bike to the future: scalability, emission-saving, and eco-efficiency assessment of shared electric mobility hubs.
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 133, [104275].
(doi:10.1016/j.trd.2024.104275).
Abstract
In car-dominated urban areas, shared electric micro-mobility offers a sustainable alternative to decarbonise and reshape mobility paradigms. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating Dublin's e-bike sharing system, comprising 12 stations (eHUBs). Using six months of real-world riding data, it employs data envelopment analysis to assess the eco-efficiency of each eHUB in utilising nearby infrastructure, population in the catchment area, and location to achieve desired economic, social, and environmental outputs. Results indicate an upward trajectory for the system's eco-efficiency. The returns-to-scale analysis provides insights into the system's scalability, suggesting that expanding the e-bike sharing system, along with infrastructural enhancements, would significantly increase ridership. Analysing decarbonisation, usage patterns, and spatial factors of eHUBs reveals the substantial potential of shared e-bikes if optimally used. The research highlights the need to reevaluate car-centric policies in favour of more inclusive and environmentally sustainable alternatives and proposes actionable policy recommendations to achieve this transformation.
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Accepted/In Press date: 31 May 2024
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 June 2024
Published date: 1 August 2024
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Data envelopment analysis, Decarbonization, E-bike, Micro-mobility, Scalability, Shared mobility
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/495729
ISSN: 1361-9209
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Tushar Pramod Choudhari
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