Institute of Transportation, MOTC

To save energy and reduce carbon, Goverments start to develope public transportation systems. Goverments also develop vehicle sharing systems to enhance the convenience and accessibility of the public. Among the developed countries, Taiwan is the first place to develop moped sharing. In 2020, Taiwan has three moped sharing operators: WeMo Scooter, Irent and GoShare. Three companies have 900,000 users and 18,000 moped in Taiwan. This shows that moped sharing is mature in Taiwan. As the number of moped sharing grows, moped sharing has also effect the traffic environment. When moped sharing effect the traffic environment, Government start to reconsider how to cooperate with moped sharing operators.

Currently, there is no paper on moped sharing in Taiwan. It is difficult for the government to judge whether moped sharing will have a negative impact on the traffic environment. This study is limited by time and funds, so it cannot fully explore the impact of moped sharing on the traffic environment. This research will focus on the impact of moped sharing on user’s scooter ownership. The purpose of this study is to explore the main influencing factors that change user’s scooter ownership, and propose management or cooperation suggestions to Goverment based on thise study results.

This study will review current status of moped sharing, the impact of car sharing on user’s car ownership, modeling household car ownership, modeling household scooter ownership. This study will design a questionnaire and send it out via e-mail. Finally, use the questionnaire data to establish a Logit model, and analyze the impact of moped sharing on user’s scooter ownership.

The results shows that moped sharing have a effect on reducing the number of scooter, but moped sharing can only effectively prevent users from buying scooter. It cannot effectively influence users to abandon the scooter. Therefore, this study suggests that government should prevent the purchase of

scooter as its main goal.