Shared electric scooters and transportation equity : a multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential

This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.

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Main Author: Arnell, Bernard Maxwell.
Other Authors: Jinhua Zhao.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123903
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spelling mit-1721.1/1239032020-03-02T03:34:33Z Shared electric scooters and transportation equity : a multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential Multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential Arnell, Bernard Maxwell. Jinhua Zhao. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Urban Studies and Planning. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2019 Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-140). The past year has seen the emergence of the shared electric scooter: a new form of micro-mobility in the United States. Electric scooters embody many of the historic trends and contradictions endemic to innovation and marginalization in the transportation space. Researchers and policy-makers are faced with a number of unanswered questions about who travels on scooters and what factors might influence when and how they are used. Hexagonal spatial binning feeds a series of spatial lag models to identify explanatory environmental and demographic variables for trip characteristics. These models reveal that employment density and the location of rebalance points are among the strongest indicators of scooter activity overall, but show significant variation when models are subsetted by time of day. The Communities of Concern framework, adapted from the Association of Bay Area Governments, provides a regionally-sensitive index of relative marginalization to undergird the analysis. These findings are placed in context with transportation justice and broad outlines of current e-scooter policy. Additionally, a framework for examining mode shift potential using Open Trip Planner is discussed, and preliminary results are described. Use patterns are also analyzed by time and in relation to contemporaneous weather. by Bernard Maxwell Arnell. M.C.P. M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning 2020-02-28T20:50:16Z 2020-02-28T20:50:16Z 2019 2019 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123903 1139524474 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 140 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Arnell, Bernard Maxwell.
Shared electric scooters and transportation equity : a multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential
title Shared electric scooters and transportation equity : a multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential
title_full Shared electric scooters and transportation equity : a multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential
title_fullStr Shared electric scooters and transportation equity : a multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential
title_full_unstemmed Shared electric scooters and transportation equity : a multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential
title_short Shared electric scooters and transportation equity : a multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential
title_sort shared electric scooters and transportation equity a multivariate spatial regression analysis of environmental factors on revealed travel behavior and mode shift potential
topic Urban Studies and Planning.
url https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123903
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