New Research Shows Significant Positive Economic Effects of Shared Scooter Schemes
A study into consumer purchase patterns across 8 cities in the United States has found that businesses in cities that had shared electric scooter hire schemes were, on average, US$3.45 million (AUD $4.53 million) better off than cities without these systems in place.
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The 2019 study by Emory University’s Goizueta Business School compared 4 cities that had legalised public e-scooter rentals – Atlanta, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. – to similar cities that did not at the time – Boston, Houston, Phoenix, and Seattle.
Looking across 370 food and beverage businesses, they found an additional US$13.8 million (AUD $18.13 million) in sales that could be attributed to easy availability of the electric scooters.
“Across the cities studied with e-scooter programs, total sales in the food and beverage category increased by an estimated 0.6 percent on average, or approximately [USD]$921 in incremental spending per available e-scooter for the food and beverage companies over the six-month period studied in the analysis.”
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Research Reveals Shared E-Scooter Systems Can Generate Significant Positive Economic Spillover