Evaluating an E-Scooter Pilot for Greensboro, NC

5. Temporal Patterns: Scooters by the Minute

How did scooter use change over the course of the pilot? In this section we’ll dive deeper into scooter patterns based on time of year and time of day.

Fig. 9. Week-over-Week Trip Volumes: Day vs. Night

The below graph shows that rides during the day make up a majority of trips. The y-axis shows total number of trips and the x-axis shows the start date of a given week of the pilot program. The darker purple represents trips that took place between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., while the lighter purple shows “night trips”—those that took place between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. You can hover over each bar in the graph to get more precise counts. If trips were evenly distributed throughout the day, we would expect one third (33%) of all trips to take place during the 8 hours of the 24-hour day that we have defined as “night trips” (between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.). As we see above, night trips make up less than a third of total trips for nearly all weeks shown. These trips make up 17% of the total trips throughout the course of the pilot.

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