Project Summary
While micromobility services (e.g. bike share, e-bike share, e-scooter share) hold great potential for providing clean travel, estimating the effects of those services on vehicle miles traveled and reducing greenhouse gases is challenging. Government agencies are just beginning to discuss ways to incentivize micromobility services to achieve these goals. California has taken one step in this direction through the SB 1014 (2018) Clean Miles Standard and Incentive Program. With this law, The California Air Resources Board (CARB) wants to better understanding the characteristics of micromobility systems to help set regulations for Transportation Network Companies (TNC) to reduce emissions. We propose to help inform CARBs regulations by summarizing micromobility trip characteristics using an archive of “big data” from the General Bikeshare Feed Specification data (in 28 North American cities) pre-, during-, and post-COVID19, estimate micromobility mode substitution from existing survey data and a literature review, and estimate the effects of micromobility on transit ridership. The project results are expected to directly influence CARB’s regulations of TNCs, but will also be pertinent for future state and local incentives and regulations of micromobility services.
