Last revised: 4/19/2020
Latest additions marked NEW>
Impact of Scooters on Urban Transportation, Safety, and the Environment
-
In General
- Two Wheels, Lots Of Controversy: Electric Scooters And Urban Space (NPR 1/13/2020)
- Shedding NHTS Light on the Use of "Little Vehicles" in Urban Areas (11/18/2019)
- Most Electric Scooter Riders Are Men. Here's Why (12/5/2019)
- New Safety Standards For E-Scooters Announced (11/27/2019)
- Why Do City Dwellers Love to Hate Scooters? (9/16/2019)
- Cities now have three choices for how to regulate e-scooters (9/2/2019)
- Scooters are a huge problem for cities. No one knows how to solve it yet (8/30/2019)
- Electric scooters: Love or hate them? Here's what you need to know (8/13/2019)
- Mapping the Impact of Dockless Vehicles (Where they are in the U.S.)
- Electric Scooters Aren’t a Transportation Revolution Yet (4/19/2019)
- Electric Scooters Now More Popular than Docked Bikes in Cities (4/17/2019)
- More than 8,000 electric scooters have taken over SXSW in Austin this year (3/15/2019)
- Ready or Not, Here Comes the Micromobility Revolution (2/5/2019)
- Micromobility: the Prose and Poetry of the Scooter-Faithful (2/4/2019)
- The scooter stampede of 2018 is great news for urban transportation (12/19/2018)
- Baltimore, MD, Kansas City, MO, Nashville, TN – Local Bike Advocates: E-Scooters Are Game-Changing (1/14/2019)
- Santa Monica, CA – PBS Newshour (11/15/2018)
-
Operator Education and Safety
- Bird's Educational Tour (6/26/2019)
- Portland's Scoot Smart video (12/2019)
- Lime's Public Policy and Safety Advisory Board
-
Winter Weather and Scooters
-
Regulation and Enforcement
- Atlanta, GA
- Los Angeles, CA
- We Polled Lime Riders About the 'No Sidewalk' Rule (8/7/2019) (Milwaukee)
- Austin, TX
- As Electric Bicycles Go Faster, Evolve and Become More Popular Legal Questions Swirl (5/31/2019)
- The Rise of Electric Scooter Regulations (1/3/2019)
- The Secret Life of Teen Scooter Outlaws (9/23/2018) (rampant non-compliance with age and other legal requirements by teenage riders)
- Is Electric Scooter Safety Next on the Regulatory Menu? (7/9/2019)
-
Suburban Responses to an Urban Phenomenon
- Edina banishes scooters in light of complaints (1/17/2020)
-
Data Collection
-
Substitution for Short Auto Trips, Public Transit, Walking?
- Google Maps mixing rideshare, bikeshare, and scooter options into transit direction suggestions (8/27/2019)
- Chicago, IL – Chicago’s scooters are mostly being used during rush hour, and 3 other things to know about the devices (8/19/2019), DePaul Study: Scooters Are Being Used for Trips to Transit, and in Low-Income Areas (8/22/2019)
- The Study: A Day in the Life of Chicago's E-Scooter Pilot Program (8/14/2019)
- Chicago is a top city for bike share and scooters, study says (9/9/2019) (reporting on a study of automobile trips under 3 miles and 1 mile in major U.S. cities)
- Cleveland, OH – Early scooter use in Cleveland suggests commuter use, as well as leisure riding (9/6/2019)
- Portland, OR – Impact of scooters on short car trips (1/20/2019)
- San Antonio, TX - Effect of e-scooters on pre-existing bike-share program (1/6/2020)
- Spokane, WA – Lime Bike and Scooter 2019 Year-End Report (1/8/2020)
- Electric scooters: not so eco-friendly after all? (7/6/2019)
-
Environmental Impact
-
Tourism
- Electric scooters add a buzz to city sightseeing (2/22/2019)
-
Fatalities
- At least 29 people have died in electric scooter crashes since 2018 (2/7/2020)
- Elizabeth, NJ (11/20/2019)
- Lexington, KY (11/4/2019)
- Spokane, WA (10/9/2019)
- Hartford, CT (9/26/2019)
- Portland, OR (9/2/2019)
- Hartford, CT (8/26/2019)
- North Port, FL (8/26/2019)
- Denver, CO (8/12/2019)
- Atlanta, GA (8/6/2019)
- Durham County, NC (8/5/2019)
- Atlanta, GA (8/4/2019)
- Atlanta, GA (7/25/2019)
- Tampa, FL (6/20/2019)
- Atlanta, GA (5/2019)
- Nashville, TN (5/2019)
- Tulsa, OK (4/2019)
- San Diego, CA (3/2019)
- Santa Monica, CA (3/2019)
- Austin, TX (2/2019)
-
Injuries
-
Formal Studies
- Electric scooters are 'seven times' more dangerous than bicycles on Danish roads (2/27/2020)
- Those E-Scooters Might Not Be as Dangerous as You Think (1/27/2020)
- Electric Scooter Injuries and Hospital Admissions in the United States, 2014-2018 (JAMA 1/8/2019)
- Wear your helmet, concludes new study showing electronic scooter injuries have nearly tripled in the last four years (1/13/2020)
- Injury from electric scooters in Copenhagen: a retrospective cohort study (12/22/2019)
- E-scooter study finds more injuries in CT scans and x-rays (12/4/2019)
- There's a physiological reason for e-scooter injuries, scientists assert (12/3/2019)
- Injuries associated with electric-powered bikes and scooters: analysis of US consumer product data (11/2019)
- E-Scooter Collision and Injury Analysis (4/2019) (San Francisco)
- Dockless Electric Scooter-Related Injuries Study — Austin, Texas, September–November 2018 (4/2019)
- Inside the CDC's Epidemiological E-Scooter Study (5/3/2019)
- Consumer Reports Injury Study: E-Scooter Ride-Share Industry Leaves Injuries and Angered Cities in its Path (2/5/2019)
- Injuries Associated With Standing Electric Scooter Use (1/25/2019)
- Other Commentary
- Electric scooters have been in the city for 18 months. How many people are really getting injured? (1/10/2020) (Cincinnati)
- More e-scooters on the roads, and more riders sent to hospitals with head injuries (2/1/2020) (discussion of FL injury cases and litigation)
- Report reveals high rates of e-scooter injuries (11/10/2019) (Washington University)
- Scooter-related injuries at TGH spike roughly 700%, report shows (10/22/2019) Tampa)
- San Diego Hospitals See Rise in 'Scooter Trauma' (10/4/2019)
- ER doc: Stay off electric scooters (9/16/2019)
- Rising Number of E-Scooter Accidents Tied to Alcohol (9/4/2019)
- 'Wild West Of Wheeled Transportation': E-Scooter Injuries Increasing Without Regulation (8/31/2019)
- Most e-scooter accident victims were not wearing helmet, nearly half were too drunk to drive: Study (8/30/2019)
- Are scooters too dangerous for LA’s streets? (8/28/2019)
- Virginia Beach EMS have been tracking e-scooter-related injuries. Here’s what they found (8/27/2019)
- Why do scooters crash so often? Tiny tires don’t help (8/17/2019)
- Spokane woman breaks arm and jaw in four places after Lime scooter brakes abruptly lock (8/15/2019)
- Despite high injury rates, 80% of e-scooter riders refuse to wear helmets (8/14/2019)
- Why E-Scooters Are on the Rise, Along With Injuries (7/20/2019)
- The e-merging e-pidemic of e-scooters (injury study) (6/27/2019)
- HealthWatch: 911 on Scooter Danger (6/10/2019)
- Boom in Electric Scooters Leads to More Injuries, Fatalities (6/5/2019)
- Electric Scooter Injuries on Rise (3/24/2019)
- Scooter Madness In Austin Puts Safety Concerns In High Gear (2/6/2019)
- Electric scooter injuries pile up, half coming from drunk or high riders (3/8/2019)
- Electric Scooters Are Popping Up in Cities Across the Country. But Are They Safe? (2/5/2019)
- Pedestrians and e-scooters are clashing in the struggle for sidewalk space (1/11/2019)
-
-
Diverse Accident Scenarios
- Caught a curb (1/17/2020)
- Nine-year-old operator (9/12/2019)
- Bicycle collision caused by improperly parked scooter (9/16/2019)
- Scooter hit while running a red light (872019)
- Scooter hit after 15 year old rider failed to observe traffic signal (8/5/2019)
- Scooter overturned: fractured skull, a bone fracture around his eye socket and a brain bleed (8/5/2019)
- Purse caught in handlebars (8/3/2019)
- Man on electric scooter hits pedestrian, then gets hit by car himself when he tries to flee police (7/25/2019)
- E-scooter crashes into construction hole in alley (7/27/2019)
- Crashing electric scooter into stopped car (7/30/2019)
- E-scooter rider hit by semi on busy roadway (6/20/2019)
- Car hits e-scooter attempting to cross avenue (7/26/2019)
- E-scooter ridden into the side of turning bus (7/25/2019)
-
Insurance (see also Terms and Conditions of Use)
- The risks of the underinsured scooter market (10/8/2019)
-
Vandalism
- Oklahoma City Uncovers Rental Scooters in Bricktown Canal (2/1/2020)
- Austin - Electric scooters thrown into Lady Bird Lake (2/14/2019)
- Stolen, burned, tossed in the lake: e-scooters face vandals wrath (12/28/2018)
-
Vulnerability to Hacking
- Security risk for e-scooters and riders (1/27/2020) (bluetooth communication between phone and scooter can be intercepted)
- You Can Add Sudden-Acceleration Attacks to the List of Electric Scooter Dangers (2/12/2019)