E-bike to the future: Scalability, emission-saving, and eco-efficiency assessment of shared electric mobility hubs
利用都柏林12个共享电动自行车站点的半年真实骑行数据，通过数据包络分析评估其生态效率，发现系统生态效率呈上升趋势，扩大规模可显著提升使用量，为城市交通政策转型提供依据。
In car-dominated urban areas, shared electric micro-mobility offers a sustainable alternative to decarbonise and reshape mobility paradigms. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating Dublin’s e-bike sharing system, comprising 12 stations (eHUBs). Using six months of real-world riding data, it employs data envelopment analysis to assess the eco-efficiency of each eHUB in utilising nearby infrastructure, population in the catchment area, and location to achieve desired economic, social, and environmental outputs. Results indicate an upward trajectory for the system’s eco-efficiency. The returns-to-scale analysis provides insights into the system’s scalability, suggesting that expanding the e-bike sharing system, along with infrastructural enhancements, would significantly increase ridership. Analysing decarbonisation, usage patterns, and spatial factors of eHUBs reveals the substantial potential of shared e-bikes if optimally used. The research highlights the need to reevaluate car-centric policies in favour of more inclusive and environmentally sustainable alternatives and proposes actionable policy recommendations to achieve this transformation.