Shared mobility is taking on an increasingly important role in Italians’ travel, with micromobility vehicles in particular being considered a real alternative. The phenomenon, which no longer only concerns mobility but represents a new way of experiencing the city, is now widespread.
For this reason IZI conducted an ad hoc survey on the occasion of the presentation of Matteo Tanzilli’s book “Models of Sharing – Sustainable Mobility from Sharing to the Metaverse,” presented on November 9 in the Toti Lecture Hall of Luiss Guido Carli University.
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The analysis returns users’ opinions on shared mobility and micromobility, consisting of bicycles and electric scooters.
What emerges? A demand for more safety, dedicated lanes and rules to enforce them, but above all an important growth in use, which involves more young people 18-34 years old.
The survey was conducted on residents of Rome and Milan, over 70% of respondents say they are very or fairly supportive of the spread of dedicated micro-mobility lanes. For about 33% of Milan residents, the frequency of bicycle sharing use has increased, the same for 28% of Rome residents. Bicycles but also scooters: 19.4% of the Milanese and 22.5% of the Romans believe that their use has grown, precisely because they consider the electric vehicle a solution for city mobility. 64% of Milanese and 58% of Romans are convinced of this.
These are just some of the data from the quantitative survey conducted in the municipalities of Rome and Milan, complex urban centers that are different in terms of morphology, mobility, public transport, infrastructure, but also travel habits.
The figure of micro-mobility as an alternative, capable therefore of changing travel habits, represents a scenario that has yet to be consolidated, precisely through the improvement of infrastructure and consequently the ease of access to sharing vehicles. A request for implementation and improvement in use that comes directly from citizens: about 8 out of 10 respondents in Rome, believe that their city is little or not at all equipped to micromobility means (39.7%); a figure that in Milan exceeds 50%.