---
title: "Shared micromobility after the boom (research idea)"
description: "Bike sharing, electric scooters and shared micromobility appear on 19 recent papers, mostly in operations research, and the topic is fading, with 2 papers in the last quarter against about 6 per quarter before. Several operators have failed and cities have banned scooters. Which systems survived, and did they replace car trips or walking?"
url: https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/micromobility-after-the-boom
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/micromobility-after-the-boom.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
date: "2026-10-23"
updated: "2026-10-23"
status: "seed"
tags: ["operations research", "transport", "cities"]
keywords: ["bike sharing", "electric scooters"]
---

# Shared micromobility after the boom

Bike sharing, electric scooters and shared micromobility appear on 19 recent papers, mostly in operations research, and the topic is fading, with 2 papers in the last quarter against about 6 per quarter before. Several operators have failed and cities have banned scooters. Which systems survived, and did they replace car trips or walking?

## What prompted this

Since October 2025, 19 papers carry a bike-sharing, micromobility, e-scooter or shared-mobility keyword (14 in operations research journals): "bike sharing" on 11, "electric scooters" on 3, "shared micromobility" on 2, "dockless bike-sharing" on 2. Only 2 were published in July–September 2026 against about 6 per quarter earlier.

## Questions

- Across cities, which system designs (docked, dockless, publicly subsidized, operator-funded) survived the operator failures of 2022–2024, and at what cost per trip?
- What share of micromobility trips replaced car trips, and did the share change as novelty wore off?
- Did the scooter bans in Paris and elsewhere shift trips to bikes, transit or cars?

## Data that could help

Trip data published by operators and cities, operator entries and exits by city, and travel surveys before and after bans.

## Next step

Compile the entry and exit of micromobility operators across 50 cities since 2018 and relate survival to the system design and subsidy model.

## Related research activity

*The keywords this note follows, in the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals as of 2026-10-26*

| Keyword | Papers, last 30 days | Rank | Papers per month, Oct 23 – Oct 26* | Papers, last 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---|---:|
| bike sharing | 0 | – | 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 0, 0, 3, 2, 2, 4, 1, 2, 0, 0, 2, 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0, 0 | 46 |
| electric scooters | 0 | – | 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0 | 8 |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Shared micromobility after the boom. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/micromobility-after-the-boom

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-ideas-micromobility-after-the-boom,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Shared micromobility after the boom},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/micromobility-after-the-boom}},
  urldate = {2026-10-23},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).