Assessing social and spatial access equity in regulatory frameworks for moped-style scooter sharing services

Moped-style scooter sharing services (MSS) offer short-period renting for daily urban mobility and are gaining popularity in cities worldwide. MSS provide substantial promise reducing car-dependency helping sustainability goals, but also significant risks terms of spatial access equity social justice. In recent years, European have been testing different regulation strategies not always succeeding regarding accessibility criteria. this context, study employs a semi-structured interviewing approach to discuss the main existing models. The aim is understand how experts, policymakers, private operators assess strengths weaknesses each model guarantee service, while preserving long-term economic interests operators. Our results show diversity opinions, with solid consensus on proposing an alternative Barcelona regulatory (capped vehicle licenses, uncapped number operators), ranging from numerus clausus (Paris or Amsterdam) laissez-faire (Madrid Berlin), based open dialogue between administrations sector. However, most respondents noted that natural path (as has happened past other transport innovations) towards close public-private partnership model, greater management control capacity by public This option generates greatest favouring more socially equitable service its viability, although it would involve commitment investment These findings valuable feedback policymakers regulators micromobility regulation.