Analysing individuals' use of moped-sharing and their perception about future private car dependency

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104741
• Publication Date: 2023-12-22T04:05:03Z
• Authors: María Vega-Gonzalo; Álvaro Aguilera-G...; Juan Gomez; José Manuel Vassallo
• Keywords: Affect

Moped-scooters are one of the latest services coming into shared mobility ecosystem, which is why scientific contributions devoted to this actor still scarce. This research explores two main questions. First, it analyses determinants frequency use e-moped-sharing among adopters these services. Second, examines whether may affect individuals' perspective need own a private vehicle in future. To achieve goal, we conducted survey campaign four cities Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville) gathered 3897 valid responses. data was employed build Generalized Structural Equations Model that accounts for influence variety factors, including socio-economic characteristics, stated travel behaviour, psychological preferences individuals. The results show electric shared-mopeds higher wealthier younger individuals residents city centre. modelling concludes more frequent mopeds negatively correlated with belief vehicles will remain necessity effect seems be pronounced high-income groups those combine other