2017 Volume 73 Issue 5 Pages I_857-I_868
These days, MEV (Micro Electric Vehicles)'s demonstration tests were done by a number of public sectors in our country. The reasons are various, however fundamental issue is less public transport services under the declining number of public transport users.
The purpose of this study is to clarify the acceptance of MEV sharing service in the residential areas in Saitama City, located in the Tokyo Metropolitan suburbs. Our study is based on a web-based questionnaire survey and demonstration tests in three different types of areas.
In our demonstration tests, only people who took MEV lessons, could drive the MEVs around their residence. From the results of the test, we found that in residential areas, 30 to 40 people shared one to two MEVs for various reasons. Also people highly evaluate particularly two things; the size of the MEV because of shortage of parking spaces in the area; the electric car because of environmental friendly. As a consequence, we could be said that MEV sharing services should be acceptable in the suburban area with less parking spaces.
