Publication

Shared micro-mobility services offer a sustainable alternative to cars for short trips and as feeders to public transport in cities. However, in several areas, there are concerns with the safety performance of the users of such services. This results in negative feedback from the public, especially for e-scooters, and the service providers also may be required to pay high insurance premiums to compensate for such safety and security challenges. It is, therefore, imperative from the perspective of all stakeholders to develop new solutions to improve the safety performance of the users of such modes.

The main research question targeted in this prestudy is how to assess the safety performance of a trip using a shared micromobility mode. The process attempted in this prestudy is performing a comprehensive review of the literature and the state-of-the-art and adopting a multi-disciplinary approach with experts from industry and research institutes to identify the research gaps and identify a practical and structured approach to address them. Consequently, an attempt has been made to develop a methodology and identify future research projects that shall help to achieve the end goal.

Three important research directions have been identified: risk quantification, detection of unsafe action, and ride (or rider) classification – which can constitute different work packages for one or more future research projects.