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home / centre for automotive safety research / Publications / List / Details Publication Details| Title | Network access, substitution effects and design issues surrounding e-scooter use | | Authors | Bailey TJ, Ponte G, Woolley JE, van den Berg AL | | Year | 2024 | | Type | Report | | Abstract | E-scooters are an efficient and economical form of micro mobility that provide benefits to individual users for transportation needs as well as economic benefits through the gig economy. This form of micro mobility has the potential to improve public transport usage by facilitating first and last mile transport, replacing car trips and reducing congestion on the road transport network. The consequences of a fast-growing new transportation mode can also produce safety issues such as collisions involving vulnerable road users, as well exposing e-scooter riders to injury by road traffic in a transport system that has not matured to a level where micro mobility has been integrated effectively. This report considers the different legislative, policy frame works, benefits and issues that jurisdictions both overseas and within Australia have experienced with both private and shared e-scooters. Additionally, the report provides some insight into e-scooter safety performance, particularly braking considerations and emergency stopping distances, kinetic energy exposure and potential injury consequences with increasing vehicle impact speed for existing implementation scenarios. | | Report Number | CASR244 | | Publisher | Centre for Automotive Safety Research | | Publisher City | Adelaide | | Sponsor | This research was funded via a deed with the South Australian Government | | ISBN | 978-1-925971-77-4 | | ISSN | 1449-2237 | | Page Count | 54 |
| Reference | | Bailey TJ, Ponte G, Woolley JE, van den Berg AL (2024). Network access, substitution effects and design issues surrounding e-scooter use (CASR244). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research. |
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