Análisis de los patrones espacio-temporales de los servicios de micromovilidadSituando BiciMAD en contexto

Résumé

Just as when doing a new food recipe, that we are very careful to have all the ingredients in place not to mess up the result, the same care should be taken into account when planning mobility. Using this simple analogy clarifies the problem addressed in this doctoral thesis: this is not necessarily happening as obsolete planning approaches are not considering all the “ingredients” or “mobility services” available to date. By usually considering only public transport systems, and the traditional modes that have been operating for decades, planners are lacking the whole picture. This whole picture is only captured when considering the new forms of mobility that have arisen in the last few years. They have changed the mobility paradigm putting the focus on transitioning from a car-oriented development into a proximity one. But as these new mobility forms are just beginning to be developed, studies regarding their spatiotemporal travel patterns still remain relatively underexplored, offering a research gap in which this thesis is framed. Our work intends to analyse these new forms of mobility, especially micromobility services, with a particular focus on BiciMAD (Madrid’s public bike-sharing system), but also on the more recently introduced shared moped and scooter services. Understanding who uses these services, how do they function, what are their dynamics and spatiotemporal travel patterns and what could their role be in the future of mobility, is the line of questioning that motivates this thesis. Therefore, the main research goal is to explore, visualise and analyse micromobility services’ spatiotemporal travel patterns. The thesis is focused on the analysis of the city of Madrid as a case study, which has been known as one of Europe’s most important shared mobility loving labs...