Back in September when a very similar article was posted, Hawkin wrote:
“I question the above claim that scooters (in particular) displace oil usage - it relies on the assumption that someone using a scooter would otherwise use a gas vehicle. I think that for a lot of dense inner city travel, scooters displace walking and not ICE usage.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140522000512
- Survey data suggest e-scooters disproportionately replace walking and bicycling.
- E-scooter trips are more likely in highly walkable areas.
“The study goes on the state a VERY interesting sea change in behavior that once someone switches from walking to an e-scooter (a non-physical form of travel), they are VERY UNLIKELY to ever go back to walking - that if the E-scooter is not available, the vast majority will instead chose to travel by car.”
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