Exploring shared mobility services beyond the common-sense understanding: a combination of diachronic and spatial analysis based on case studies of Paris and London

摘要

The objective of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of shared mobility services, with a view to building a bottom-up, yet systematic typology of such services. The underlying research develops an objective, systematic methodology of analysis, based on the one hand on an original set of indicators describing service operations at the city scale and on the other hand on a diachronic analysis of services and public policies in the cities considered. Geospatial data was collected through web scraping method, then geocoded using GIS (Geographic Information System). Our grid of indicators includes characteristics of the territory, general information on the service, as well as physical, geospatial and economic features of the service. For the context analysis, information was collected from a wide range of sources, including academic, governmental (official documentation, websites, open data, and regulations) and professional (both operators and specialised media sources) over a 20-year period for all types of services. This comparative method is applied to two selected cities, namely: Paris (France) and London (United Kingdom). The two territories have been selected because they display similar features when looking at basic indicators such as population, densities, motorisation rates, quality of life and transportation infrastructures (IAU, 2014).