Micro mobility in macro models. Implementing e-scooters in the Norwegian Regional Transport Model.

• Main Authors: Tørset, Trude, Aakre, Arvid, Flaata, Ellen Heffer
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: NTNU 2023
• Subjects: Norway; Bodø
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3068876

Ideally, we should have started with data collection to monitor how micro mobility is used, who uses it, and which drivers there are for using micro mobility. Also, we should have reestimated the demand model in our strategic transport model, to implement micro mobility as an independent mode in the transport model. However, we have used literature to understand more about how and who uses micro mobility. Lack of data and resources made it impossible to estimate a new demand model. Instead, we developed a model which redistribute trips from other modes to micro mobility. The regional transport model of Norway is used for basically all transport analysis in Norway. It has the flexibility to select model area but uses inbedded algorithms and parameters. The model framwork uses local data input to calculate demand for the selected area. In our project we chose Bode as study area. Bodø municipality has planes to develop a new area of the city close to the city center, which will house up to 10 000 new residents and many new workplaces. The project has given insight into how micro mobility could be implemented in a transport model. The mode is sometimes competing against other modes, especially for short trips, which would otherwise have been carried out by foot. In other situations, as complementary mode, as access and egress mode to public transport and potentially between parking facilities and start or end point of the trips. To implement micro mobility in a transport model there are several considerations to be solved. The network coding should be quite detailed to represent traveling by micro mobility mode. When this project was developed the local fleet was free floating, which mean there could be some search and walk time (vehicle access time) to find a unit for use. The current model design implies five separate modes, car driver, car passenger, public transport, bike and walk. With micro mobility, one solution is to add a sixth mode, but this is not suitable for representing the combination of several modes ...