Simulation Modeling of Calgary's E-Scooter System
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2021-09
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Shared micromobility is a rapidly growing transportation technology, with several companies establishing e-bike and e-scooter programs in cities across the globe. This thesis analyzes two years of empirical data on e-scooter usage from a shared mobility pilot program in the City of Calgary to create a synthetic workload model of e-scooter traffic. A synthetic workload generator is developed from this model and incorporated into a dedicated, custom-built simulation environment. This simulation is used to conduct experiments evaluating the impacts of different e-scooter management policies and infrastructure, such as fleet size, battery re-charging strategies, and urban parking infrastructure locations, on the efficacy of the shared e-scooter system. The results of these simulation experiments detail the impacts of these policies on satisfied user demand, costs of collecting depleted scooters to be recharged, and number of improperly parked scooters, and highlight the importance of proper site selection for parking areas and battery charging infrastructure.
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Shared Micromobility, Simulation Modeling, System design and optimization
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Mclean, R. (2021). Simulation modeling of Calgary's e-scooter system (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.