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Micromobility has recently gained great interest all over the world, mainly due to the electric scooters’ services. This new transportation system concerns the use of shared e-scooters for urban routes supporting urban mobility in a flexible and economic way. This paper focuses on recognizing the best practices of the operation of e-scooter services across Europe in order to capture lessons learnt and point out the sustainable and most efficient way to operate such services. Based on a questionnaire survey circulated in a number of EU contacts and organizations, the best practices of e-scooters’ operation were identified. This research was conducted in the framework of the Greek national project NEMO that aims to introduce e-scooters in the island of Rhodes, Greece.
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Giannakari, O., Tsami, M., Panou, M., Papandreou, M. (2022). Best Practices of E-Scooters’ Operation Across Europe. In: Kabashkin, I., Yatskiv, I., Prentkovskis, O. (eds) Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication. RelStat 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 410. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96196-1_31
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