Shared micro-mobility patterns as measures of city similarity: Position Paper

Abstract

Micro-mobility services, such as dockless e-scooters and e-bikes, are inundating urban centers around the world. The mass adoption of these services, and ubiquity of the companies operating them, offer a unique opportunity through which to compare cities. In this position paper, a series of spatiotemporal measures are proposed based on activity data collected from shared micro-mobility services. The purpose of this paper is to identify a number of ways that these new mobility services can serve to augment existing city similarity approaches.