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Titre
E‑scooter vibration impact on driver comfort and health
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Sujet
Ride comfort
E-scooter
Road profle
Multibody dynamics
Urban transport
Fecha de publicación
2021-01-30
Éditeur
Springer
Citación
Cano-Moreno, J. D., Islán, M. E., Blaya, F., D’Amato, R., Juanes, J. A., & Soriano, E. (2021). E-scooter vibration impact on driver comfort and health. Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-021-00280-3
Resumen
[EN]Background Micro-mobility provides a solution for last mile problem and e-scooter sharing systems are one of the most
heavily adopted micro-mobility services. The increasing usages of e-scooters make it necessary to analyze the possible efects
of the vibrations transmitted to the drivers.
Purpose This research has studied for the frst time the e-scooter vibrations efects on drivers comfort and health for the
actual range of circulation speeds, that can exceed 25 km/h.
Methods Based on experimental measured stifness of two diferent e-scooter wheels and Multibody dynamic simulations,
several statistical models have been obtained following the standard UNE2631.
Results The results show that for a common e-scooter and a road profle with a very good-good roughness level, a velocity
of 16 km/h starts to be uncomfortable and for 23 km/h could be harmful for health, for short trip durations. Derived from
the statistical models, a new way of measuring the roughness has been proposed and that will be one of the future works to
adjust and validate it.
Conclusion E-scooter suspension systems (front suspension and wheels) must be improved under human comfort and health
point of view. Furthermore, results suggest the necessity of study the vibrations efects on real e-scooters due to the maximum
speed they can reach is greater than 25 km/h.
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2523-3920
DOI
10.1007/S42417-021-00280-3
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