E-Scooter Safety: Issues and Solutions (2023) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter 9: Conclusion
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Pages 172-177
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With the input from the stakeholders, the team revised the guidance to ensure that the deliverables offered sound, easily understood information that can be implemented by the intended audience groups. In addition to the Toolbox, the team produced a slide deck summarizing key findings and takeaways as well as an Implementation Guidance document, which summarizes the resources developed and describes the resources' intended audience, the roles they may play in implementing and sharing the guidance, opportunities for applications, and connection to the end user's broader role in traffic injury prevention.
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Stakeholders specifically identified a need for "clear, shareable information putting the risk of injury from e-scooters into perspective relative to cars, both quantitatively and qualitatively" as well as "better guidelines or standards on how to manage data" related to injury reporting, crashes, and broader safety risks. 9.2.2 Safety Perceptions, Barriers, and Needs Specific to Women, BIPOC Users, and People with Disabilities Additionally, there is a clear need to more thoroughly engage and address safety-related barriers and risks specific to women, BIPOC users, and people with disabilities.
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9.2.3 E-scooter Rider Choices, Constraints, and Preferences Parking management was a top concern amongst surveyed stakeholders, along with minimizing conflicts between e-scooter riders and other road users, particularly pedestrians, bicyclists, and people with disabilities who most often share space with e-scooters. As stated in Chapter 3, incidents involving pedestrians and stationary or parked e-scooters have not been extensively studied but may be as frequent as collisions between pedestrians and moving e-scooters, which is to say they likely represent a small but significant portion of all scooter-involved injuries.
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Do the e-scooter deceleration rates imposed by geofencing pose a safety risk to riders? Do geofences strand scooter riders in dangerous situations or do they force scooter riders to take circuitous routes that increase overall exposure to risk?
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. Yet key questions remain unanswered, including how to design and implement policy and planning approaches as well as regulatory and incentive measures to offer safer and more comfortable travel environments, particularly for those who are inexperienced at using micromobility modes and for communities most marginalized in the decision-making process.
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In the literature and stakeholder surveys, it was widely recognized that protected bicycle lanes, slow zones, and car-free zones were a critical component of providing infrastructure to support micromobility and offer alternatives to sidewalk riding. Sidewalk riding was recognized as dangerous, both to e-scooter riders (who may be exposed to more surface objects, fall hazards, and dangers crossing driveways at higher speeds)
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