Electric Scooters: Hire Services

(asked on 8th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 16 February (HL6187), what assessment they have made of (1) the purpose of journeys taken by e-scooter, and (2) the percentage of journeys made by e-scooter that would otherwise be taken by another form of transport.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 22nd March 2022

The Department for Transport has in place a national monitoring and evaluation programme for the e-scooter trials, which is being carried out by Arup and NatCen. This is a mixed-methods impact evaluation drawing from a wide range of data sources, including a 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 the purpose of rental e-scooter journeys and mode shift from other forms of transport. A full set of findings from this evaluation will be in the final report due to be published in later in 2022.

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