Electric Scooters: Hire Services

(asked on 10th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what analysis they have carried out of the (1) distances travelled by, and (2) purpose of travel of, users of e-scooters as part of the pilot projects.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 16th February 2022

The Department for Transport has in place a national monitoring and evaluation programme for the e-scooter trials, commissioned to Arup in partnership with NatCen. This is a mixed-methods impact evaluation drawing from a wide range of data sources, including a direct data feed from trial e-scooter operators, survey data with e-scooter users and trial areas residents, and qualitative research with local and national stakeholders. As part of this evaluation, we are collecting evidence on miles travelled on rental e-scooters, as well as mode shift from car and public transport. Findings from the evaluation will be published in the Spring.

From the period from July 2020 to the end of December 2021, over 19.5 million miles have been travelled in total across the rental trials.

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