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Transit and Micromobility (2021)

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Suggested Citation:"Chapter 6 - Suggestions for Further Research." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Transit and Micromobility. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26386.
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82 Suggestions for Further Research To inform transit agency actions on micromobility, conducting further research on a number of questions related to micromobility, transit, and various strategies for improving their integration could be considered. • The transit rider experience impacts of shared micromobility have not been widely studied. As with personal micromobility devices, transit agencies have operational interests related to onboard devices, customer circulation around parked devices, micromobility use in the same right-of-way as transit operations, and the digital experience of riders. These subjects could be explored in future research. Specific areas of inquiry include: – The interaction of micromobility use with transit operations as the modes and markets mature; – The effect of shared micromobility on customer demand for bringing personal bikes or scooters on board transit vehicles; and – The transit ridership benefits of multimodal integrated trip planning, booking, and payment. • A growing body of evidence, including the survey data in this study, suggests that scooters are attracting a different cohort of riders than more bicycle-centered micromobility has done thus far, with younger riders, women, people from lower-income households, and non-white people appearing to favor scooters over micromobility generally. Further research could use data on these nontraditional users’ ongoing ridership (as opposed to adoption rates) and usage as the modes mature. • In the regions where scooter trips were observed for this study, it was possible to say that trips were starting and ending near transit, but the data limited the ability to make stronger conclusions about the links between modes. Future studies could examine trip chaining and mode shift to provide a clearer picture of these connections. • As the COVID-19 pandemic subsides and its longer-term impacts on transportation become clearer, the public understanding would benefit from an analysis of micromobility’s role during the crisis—especially during lockdown periods and when widespread working from home began. • Other areas of research interest are: – Outcomes from explicit transit agency–micromobility integrations, especially in smaller markets; – The effectiveness of city, transit agency, and vendor attempts to increase access for people with disabilities, people with low incomes, and other disadvantaged groups through micro- mobility regulation and partnerships; – The adequacy of permit fees and fines to support enhancements to micromobility infra- structure; – Outcomes from U.S. experiments with mobility hubs since most research to date comes from European implementations but an increasing number of jurisdictions have begun working on their own interpretations. C H A P T E R 6

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Micromobility refers to small, low-speed vehicles intended for personal use and includes station-based bikeshare systems, dockless bikeshare systems, electric-assist bikeshare, and electric scooters. Micromobility has the potential to increase the number of transit trips by expanding the reach of multimodal transportation, but it also could replace transit trips.

The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Research Report 230: Transit and Micromobility provides an analysis of the full benefits and impacts of micromobility on public transportation systems in transit-rich markets as well as in medium-sized and smaller urban areas.

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