Impact of Weather on Shared Electric Scooter Utilization
Impact of Weather on Shared Electric Scooter Utilization
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天气对共享电动滑板车使用的影响
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2019
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D. Bullock
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作者：
Jijo K. Mathew;Mingmin Liu;D. Bullock
在过去的一年里，共享电动滑板车（e-scooter）已经在世界各地的城市地区部署，天气条件变化很大。许多机构与电动滑板车供应商签订了行程记录数据共享协议，以深入了解这种新型交通方式在城市生态系统中的使用情况。有相当多的轶事媒体报道在广泛变化的天气条件下使用电动滑板车，但很少有研究进行了检查天气对城市电动滑板车使用的影响。本文使用统计模型分析每小时出行的天气因素（地表温度、降水、降雪、风速），以了解天气对电动滑板车使用的影响。本研究从印第安纳波利斯市获得了六个月的历史电动滑板车旅行数据。虽然在冬季旅行次数减少了80%以上，但平均旅行距离和持续时间只略有下降。在冬季，滑板车的日使用率也下降了约三分之二。使用对低于冰点的温度和降雪比下雨更敏感。
Shared electric scooters (e-scooters) have been deployed over the past year in urban areas around the world with widely varying weather conditions. Many agencies have trip level record data sharing agreements with e-scooter providers to provide insight into how this new transportation mode is used in the urban ecosystem. There are considerable anecdotal media reports of usage during widely varying weather conditions, but few studies have been conducted to examine the weather impact on urban e-scooter utilization. This paper uses statistical modelling to analyze hourly weather factors (surface temperature, precipitation, snow, wind speed) with hourly trips to understand the impact of weather on e-scooter usage. A six-month period of historical e-scooter trip data was acquired from City of Indianapolis for this study. Although the number of trips reduced over 80% during the winter months, the median trip distance and duration only dropped slightly. Scooter utilization rate per day also dropped by approximately two-thirds during winter months. Usage was more sensitive to temperatures below freezing and snowfall than rain.