Price and competition in emerging shared e-scooter markets

dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-06T15:14:48Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-06T15:14:48Z
dc.date.created	2023-03-07T15:34:58Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.identifier.citation	Aarhaug, Jørgen Fearnley, Nils Hartveit, Knut Johannes Liland Johnsson, Espen . Price and competition in emerging shared e-scooter markets. Research in Transportation Economics. 2023, 98(May 2023), 1-8
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10852/102626
dc.description.abstract	The rapid deployment of shared dockless electric scooters (e-scooters) has resulted in attention from the public and regulators. Recurring issues include fleet size and the number of operators in the market. In this paper we study market development in two Norwegian cities and discuss how these experiences point towards future e-scooter regulation and ask if market regulation based on price competition in the e-scooter market is plausible. We study this by focusing on two natural experiments. First, we analyse the market entry of a low-cost e-scooter company in Drammen. We discuss how that entry impacted two incumbent e-scooter companies and the total market. Second, we look at the change in e-scooter regulation in Oslo in September 2021. This change represents a movement from a laissez faire market approach to a fleet cap of 8000 divided evenly between 12 different e-scooter companies. We study these experiments using data obtained from selected e-scooter operators (GPS location, start/stop time, e-scooter id), municipalities (fleet size, trips) and a web page tracking e-scooter fares. We find that competition between e-scooter companies varies across user segments, with trips made for traveling purposes being less price sensitive, and joy rides being more price sensitive. Also, we find that there are substantial advantages in being a large actor.
dc.description.abstract	Price and competition in emerging shared e-scooter markets
dc.language	EN
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title	Price and competition in emerging shared e-scooter markets
dc.title.alternative	ENEngelskEnglishPrice and competition in emerging shared e-scooter markets
dc.type	Journal article
dc.creator.author	Aarhaug, Jørgen
dc.creator.author	Fearnley, Nils
dc.creator.author	Hartveit, Knut Johannes Liland
dc.creator.author	Johnsson, Espen
cristin.unitcode	185,17,1,0
cristin.unitname	Senter for teknologi, innovasjon og kultur
cristin.ispublished	true
cristin.fulltext	original
cristin.qualitycode	1
dc.identifier.cristin	2132042
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dc.identifier.jtitle	Research in Transportation Economics
dc.identifier.volume	98
dc.identifier.issue	May 2023
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2023.101273
dc.type.document	Tidsskriftartikkel
dc.type.peerreviewed	Peer reviewed
dc.source.issn	0739-8859
dc.type.version	PublishedVersion
cristin.articleid	101273
dc.relation.project	NFR/321050
dc.relation.project	NFR/316579
dc.relation.project	NFR/283331