Atlanta native; I haven't dug into the design of the study, but I am supremely skeptical of these results. There is a huge influx of new residents right now (and likely for the foreseeable future). That in concert with a renewed push for working from the office likely accounts for any increase in congestion seen any time recently. The city yearns for more public transport, but it is hard to imagine that 10% of all the insane traffic is directly related to a ban on this relatively new mode of transport.
The micromobility ban was implemented in the city of Atlanta on 9 August 2019. We use high-resolution data from 25 June 2019 to 22 September 2019 from Uber Movement to measure changes in evening travel times between 7:00 p.m. and midnight
The data was very specific to evenings in certain areas.
It isn't difficult math - selfish flow of traffic produces extremely un-optimal results, and congestion is simply a function of how much traffic chooses a certain path. I highly recommend Tim Roughgarten's work if you want an academic analysis: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262182430/selfish-routing-and-t...
It's a comparative study of several insanely small datasets over an exceptionally small period of time with no experimental controls, just retrospective analysis. 12000 MARTA trips, 120 Mercedez Benz trips and 34000 scooter trips... in a metropolitan area with 2.6 million homes.
I don't believe this report is proving anything it claims.
It would work, you just wouldn't be happy with it happening In Your BackYard.