Post-pandemic city and light sharing mobility: a comparative analysis of Budapest, Lisbon, Rome, Warsaw and Vilnius

Bike sharing systems have become a common feature of the modern urban landscape in many European cities (Shaheen et al. 2010; McKenzie, 2019), and recently a bewildering variety of mostly battery-powered vehicles – such as electric scooters – have been scattered all over the sidewalks of major urban centres, providing residents and visitors with a new mode of light and sustainable personal transportation. Scientific studies on bike-sharing systems list a number of impacts – potential and actual, positive and negative – some of which can be extended to e-scooter sharing services (hereafter ESSs) for which, due to their recent advent, empirical studies and research are still limited.