Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2023, 25(4):A164-A174 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2023.072

Improving the Management of Operations of the E-Scooter Services in Sicily: A First Step of a Descriptive Statistical Survey

Tiziana Campisi ORCID...1, *, Chiara Vianello ORCID...2, 3, Emre Kuºkapan ORCID...4, Muhammed Yasin Çodur ORCID...5, Giulia De Cet ORCID...2
1 Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Enna Kore, Enna, Italy
2 Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
3 Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
4 Engineering and Architecture Faculty, Erzurum Technical University, Erzurum, Turkey
5 College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila, Kuwait

The recent pandemic has changed the modal choices of users in the urban context, highlighting in the last two years an increase in the diffusion of electric scooters, which is not homogeneous in the Italian context. At the beginning of 2020, the first e-scooter services were launched in Sicily, with the city of Palermo leading the way. A survey was therefore conducted in Sicily involving approximately 550 regular users of e-scooter services. The descriptive statistical analysis undertaken compared three different periods pre, during and post pandemic, with particular attention to the gender and age gap and different trends in the diffusion of multimodality. The results provide not only some suggestions for the improvement of services by managers but some suggestions to local administrators for implementation of democratic and sustainable planning steps, as well.

Keywords: e-scooter, user clustering, pandemic, mobility and social aspects
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Received: March 27, 2023; Accepted: September 29, 2023; Prepublished online: September 29, 2023; Published: October 24, 2023  Show citation

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Campisi, T., Vianello, C., Kuºkapan, E., Çodur, M.Y., & De Cet, G. (2023). Improving the Management of Operations of the E-Scooter Services in Sicily: A First Step of a Descriptive Statistical Survey. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 25(4), A164-174. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2023.072
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