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Shared Micromobility in the U.S.: 2018 MILLION84 TRIPS IN 2018 Shared Micromobility in the U.S.: 2018 In 2018, people took 84 million trips on Shared Micromobility in the United States, more than double the number of trips taken in 2017. What is Shared Micromobility? Shared Micromoblity encompasses all shared-use fleets of small, fully or partially human-powered vehicles such as bikes, e-bikes, and e-scooters. Station-based bike share (including e-bikes) Dockless bike share (including e-bikes) Scooter share 2 Source: NACTO Shared Micromobility Across the U.S. (as of 12/31/18) Source: NACTO Station-based bike share only (>150 bikes) Both station-based bike share & scooter share Scooter share only (>150 scooters) 3 Dockless bike share only In 2018, people took 36.5 million trips on station- based bike share systems Breakdown of 2018 Trips and 38.5 million trips on Scooter trips: shared e-scooters. 38.5 M Dockless bike Dockless pedal (non-electric) bikes, share trips: which quickly proliferated across the U.S. 9 M in 2017, have largely disappeared from North American cities, with just 3 million E-bike trips trips in a handful of cities in 2018. 84 million trips (station-based & dockless): E-bikes emerged as a popular option, 6.5 M accounting for 6.5 million trips in 2018 (6 million in dockless systems and 500,000 Station-based in station-based systems). bike share trips: 36.5 M Since 2010, people have taken 207 million trips on shared bikes and Source: NACTO e-scooters. 84 Million Trips on Shared Micromobility in 2018 90 Scooter share 84 M Dockless bike share 80 Station-based bike share 70 60 50 35 M 40 28 M 30 22 M Total Trips Taken in Millions Taken Trips Total 18 M 20 13 M 4.5 M 10 2.4 M 321 K 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Source: NACTO 4 What we saw in 2018 Goodbye dockless pedal bikes; hello e-scooters. In 2018, e-scooters overtook bikes (including Bird) emerged. Early as the preferred vehicle for dockless e-scooter adopter cities include vendors. As of the end of 2018, over Santa Monica and Austin, and 85,000 e-scooters were available for e-scooter companies expanded to public use in about 100 U.S. cities. In many more cities from there, with contrast, dockless bikes, which once about 26 formal e-scooter share numbered in the tens of thousands, pilots across the U.S. launching have largely disappeared from city between July and September. streets, with the notable exception of dockless bikes still in use in Seattle. Venture capital-backed ride-hail companies began investing large Over the course of 2018, most sums in shared micromobility dockless bike share companies companies, with Uber acquiring Jump (including Lime and Spin) retooled Bikes and Lyft acquiring Motivate, the their fleets to focus on e-scooters, operator of the five largest docked and new e-scooter-only companies bike share systems in the U.S. 5 System Sizes (as of 12/31/18) Sour ce: N ACTO Station-Based Bike Share < 1,000 bikes < 2,000 bikes < 7,000 bikes 10,000+ bikes So urce : NA Scooter Share CTO < 2,000 scooters < 5,000 scooters 10,000+ scooters 6 More than twice as many trips—84 million— were taken on shared micromobility in the U.S. as compared to the year before. 36.5 million trips were taken on In the Bay Area, Ford GoBike expanded station-based bike share, an its fleet 10-fold, and increased increase of 9% from 2017. While 9 ridership by 260%. Similarly, in million trips were taken on dockless Honolulu, Biki increased its fleet by bike share, this number is expected 30%, and trips increased by 200%. In to decrease in 2019 due to the Metro Boston, Bluebikes expanded its disappearance of most dockless fleet by 40%, and ridership increased shared bikes across the U.S. 38.5 by 30%. Boston also increased its million trips were taken on scooters coverage area: as of the end of 2018, across the U.S., reflecting the wide 85% of Boston residents live within proliferation of vehicles in many a 5-7 minute walk from a Bluebikes cities. station, up from 67% in 2017. In station-based bike share systems, The six cities with the highest a number of system expansions ridership account for 84% of all resulted in increased ridership. station-based bike share trips in the Three of the top five bike share cities U.S., similar to prior years. E-scooter (Washington DC, Metro Boston, and ridership similarly is concentrated the Bay Area, CA) increased the in a small number of cities: 40% of number of stations in their system. In all e-scooter trips took place in the total, there are now 57,000 station- Los Angeles, San Diego, and Austin based bike share bikes in the U.S., up regions. 9% from 2017. Station-Based Bike Share Ridership 40 All other systems 35 Ford GoBike (Bay Area) 30 Biki (Honolulu) Divvy (Chicago) 25 20 15 Citi Bike NYC Total Trips Taken in Millions Taken Trips Total 10 Bluebikes (Greater Boston) 5 Capital Bike Share (Washington DC) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Source: NACTO 7 Trips by Hour 15% rush hour rush hour Station-based bike share (annual members) Station-based bike share 10% (casual riders) Scooter share 5% 0% 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 am pm Source: NACTO Why people are riding depends on what they’re riding. NACTO’s analysis of ridership data shows Data from Washington, DC and Portland, a marked difference between the riding OR, suggests that e-scooter share use more patterns of annual or monthly pass station- closely mirrors that of social, shopping and based bike share riders and day-pass/ other recreational bike share use. Average single-trip or casual bike share riders. In peak usage for e-scooters begins around general, annual/monthly pass holders are 11AM – 12PM and continues throughout the more likely to ride during traditional rush- afternoon into early evening. E-scooters are hours, suggesting that they are using the used throughout the week but use is highest system for commute trips. In contrast, day/ on weekends. In contrast, aggregated data single trip riders are more likely to ride in from station-based systems shows ridership the middle of the day and on weekends, peaking at rush hours and during the week. and for longer periods of time, suggesting social, shopping and other recreational use. Scooters Trips by Day Station-based 20% weekend bike share (annual members) 15% 10% Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun Source: NACTO 8 Survey data from a number of cities also shows a difference in why people choose to ride. People using station-based bike share are more likely than people using e-scooter share to report that they ride to get to/from work and to say that they use bike share to connect to transit. Why People Ride Station-based To / From bike share Work Scooters Connection to Transit Social Recreation / Exercise 0% 25% 50% 75% * See methodology for cities used for analysis Source: NACTO 9 E-bikes are popular where they are in use. Across the country, the vehicles that With e-bikes’ popularity apparent, have the highest use-frequency bike share companies are now rapidly (measured by rides/vehicle/day) are adding e-bikes to their fleets. In San e-bikes. Cities that added e-bikes Francisco, e-bikes were introduced in to their station-based fleets report May and comprised a third of the fleet that, on average, e-bikes are used by the end of the year. Looking forward, twice as frequently as pedal bikes. Minneapolis plans to transition its For example, in New York City, e-bikes entire docked fleet from pedal to are used up to 15 times a day during electric vehicles, while New York City is high ridership months (compared to working towards a fleet that is a third around 5 times a day for pedal bikes). electric. Pedal Bike E-Bike 5 rides per day 15 rides per day higher ridership months higher ridership months 10 The Average Trip The average cost per trip varies widely depending on the system type and amount of use per Scooter Station-Based BikeStation-Based Share BikeDockless Share typical rider. Share Annual Member* Casual User* E-Bikes On average, annual members in $3.50 $1.25 $2.75 $2.50 station-based bike share programs paid $1.25 per ride, compared to Price $2.75 per ride for casual users, and $3.50 per e-scooter share ride. 3.0 Cities have required bike share and scooter companies to offer 2.5 discounts for low-income residents as a condition for operating in 2.0 the public right-of-way. By the end of 2018, 30% of bike and Miles 1.5 e-scooter share systems provided membership discounts for people 1.0 with low incomes. In station-based systems, the majority of these 0.5 programs offer unlimited trips for $5/month. In addition, 17% of station-based systems provided cash access options. For scooters, the available discounts vary by 25 company and by market within the same company, and are unevenly 20 advertised. 15 Minutes 10 5 *Based on data from Capital Bike Share, Bluebikes, Citi Bike, Divvy, and Ford GoBike Source: NACTO 11 Bike share systems are pioneering new access options that can reduce transportation costs and make riding more convenient.
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