Thus, one of the companies, whose fleet in the Sverdlovsk region includes up to 4.5 thousand scooters, analyzed the routes traveled by the inhabitants of Yekaterinburg. Most trips (up to 85 percent) were made in transport mode: people used scooters for short trips from home to the subway, from the subway to work, to the shopping center, to beauty salons and to the gym.
The peak of activity occurs in the morning and afternoon hours: from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; At this time, citizens go to work, study or return home.
During the week, in the morning and at night, scooters were used to travel from home to the subway or public transport stops, and from the subway or stops to the office. This is up to 60 percent of the total. In addition, according to statistics, residents of the Urals use scooters instead of taxis to get to cafes and bars: in the total number of trips made on Fridays and Saturdays, this accounts for up to 72 percent of the total number of routes. On Sunday, the proportion of trips to shopping centers, sports complexes and churches increased.
In the city center, the most popular destinations for scooter users were rides along Gorky Street, Boris Yeltsin Street, Lenin Avenue and Plotinka Street. The city’s longest trip lasted 2 hours 46 minutes.
In addition, the operator blocked fifteen hundred accounts of minor users. Despite the fact that the service periodically reinforces safety measures and evaluated the knowledge of traffic rules of 215 thousand customers, it fined 14.2 thousand scooter users and blocked 5.7 thousand adult accounts. The violators parked the scooters in wrong places or rode together, which is prohibited by the rules.
