Shared Mobility
- 1st Edition - July 20, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Junfeng Jiao
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 9 0 0 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 0 8 8 - 6
Shared Mobility offers a current view on one of the most significant economic activities in recent years. While most studies investigate shared mobility services and transport… Read more
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Request a sales quoteShared Mobility offers a current view on one of the most significant economic activities in recent years. While most studies investigate shared mobility services and transportation piecemeal by city, mode, or company, this book focuses on transportation network companies themselves, highlighting shared bikes and E-scooters. Sections cover how they perform at the local or regional level in an effort to help governments better plan and regulate these emerging services.
Shared Mobility
explores the opportunities and challenges in these new systems and provides a thorough and succinct reference text for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in the fields of transportation planning, transportation engineering, and urban planning.- Examines data collected from the author’s extensive multi-year lab study on shared mobility and transportation
- Offers a detailed quantitative analysis of shared mobility activities and their impacts on people and cities
- Explores the interactions between shared mobility modes and policy outcomes
Researchers and graduate students in transportation planning, transportation engineering, and urban planning; transportation and urban planners, engineers, and policymakers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- 1: A history and evolution of shared mobility
- Abstract
- Background
- History of shared mobility
- Digital age and shared mobility
- Vehicle sharing
- Passenger service sharing
- Delivery service sharing
- 2: Why does shared mobility exist? A critical review of theories behind shared economy
- Abstract
- Background
- Limitation of the shared economy
- Cost benefits
- Sustainability
- Government regulation and business morality
- Convenience
- Transit equity
- 3: Lessons from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Background
- Literature review
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion and conclusions
- Limitations
- Appendix
- 4: Shared mobility and public transit: A love-hate story
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Background
- E-scooter usage and transit corridors
- Data
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
- 5: Transportation network companies: Who use them and for what purpose
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Literature review
- Methods
- Results
- TNCs and perceived trip making activity
- Usage patterns among heavy user
- Discussions and conclusions
- 6: Bike sharing: Ridership and impact of the built environment
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Data and methods
- Community character
- Bicycle safety
- Active transport connectivity
- Regression results
- Discussion
- Bike-sharing and built environments in Texas cities
- Results
- Conclusion
- 7: Shared micro-mobility: The rise of and the future of E-scooters
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Backgrounda
- Understanding shared E‐scooter travels
- Results
- Understanding E-scooters violations
- Methodology
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- 8: Lessons and regulations: Where do we go from here
- Abstract
- Introduction
- A recap of the book
- Conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 20, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 166
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128229002
- eBook ISBN: 9780128230886
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Junfeng Jiao
Junfeng Jiao is an associate professor of urban planning at the University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, United States, and the founding director of their Urban Information Lab. He also serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Urban Technology, Transportation Research Part D, Journal of Transport and Land Use, PLOS ONE, and AIMS Public Health. Dr. Jiao researches urban informatics, smart cities, and emerging technologies to better understand the relationship between the built environment and human behavior. His work has been published in top urban planning, transportation, public health, and computer journals and has been reported by such media outlets as the Associated Press, CNN, US News, Yahoo, MSN, NBC, NPR, USA Today, and Wired.
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