E-Scooter Safety: Issues and Solutions

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

doi:10.17226/27252

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E-Scooter Safety: Issues and Solutions

(2023)

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Electric scooter (or e-scooter) usage continues to expand worldwide with shared, rented, and privately owned devices. While many communities with e-scooter sharing programs have observed social, health, economic, and environmental benefits of enhanced multimodal travel and having more alternatives to vehicle use, these effects are often accompanied by real and perceived safety challenges.

BTSCRP Web-Only Document 5: E-Scooter Safety: Issues and Solutions, from TRB's Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program, seeks to build upon existing research to date, identify key gaps in knowledge and data related to e-scooter behavioral safety, and develop evidence-based guidance that can enhance the coordination of behavioral safety programs and countermeasures with a broader toolbox of approaches to improve safety for all road users.

The document is supplemental to BTSCRP Research Report 9: E-Scooter Safety Toolbox.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board; Laura Sandt; Dan Gelinne; Alyson West; Kathrine J. Harmon; Kristin Blank; Meg Bryson; Tabitha Combs; Christopher R. Cherry; Emma Sexton; Nitesh Shah; Yi Wen; Mojdeh Azad; Ashkan Neshagarian; Regina Clewlow; Stephanie Seki; Charles T. Brown; Rebecca Sanders

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. E-Scooter Safety: Issues and Solutions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27252.

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235 pages | 8.5 x 11 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/27252

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xii
Summary	1-8
Introduction	9-10
Chapter 1: Study Methods and Data Sources	11-17
Chapter 2: E-scooter Context and Safety Issues	18-34
Chapter 3: E-scooter Injuries and Crash Context	35-52
Chapter 4: E-Scooter Program Safety Management Practices	53-76
Chapter 5: Agency Practices, Gaps, and Safety Issues Identified	77-102
Chapter 6: Agency Interviews	103-116
Chapter 7: Field Data Collection Tool Development and Pilot Testing	117-142
Chapter 8: Community Case Studies	143-171
Chapter 9: Conclusion	172-177
Works Cited	178-190
Appendix A: E-scooter Safety Management Practices	191-209
Appendix B: Additional Stakeholder Survey Responses	210-217
Appendix C: Interview Guide	218-219
Appendix D: Site Visit Information Data Collection Form	220-222

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