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Impact of E-Scooters on Pedestrian Safety: A Field Study Using Pedestrian Crowd-Sensing by Maiti, Anindya; Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, Nisha; Jadliwala, Murtuza; Wijewickrama, Raveen; Griffin, Greg P. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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The popularity and proliferation of electric scooters (e-scooters) as a micromobility solution in our cities and urban communities has been rapidly rising. Rent-by-the-minute pricing and a healthy competition between micromobility service providers is also benefiting riders with low trip costs. However, an unprepared urban infrastructure, combined with uncertain operation policies and poor regulation enforcement, has resulted in e-scooter riders encroaching public spaces meant for pedestrians, thus causing significant safety concerns both for themselves and the pedestrians. As a consequence, it has become critical to understand the current state of pedestrian safety in our urban communities vis-\`{a}-vis e-scooter services, identify factors that impact pedestrian safety due to such services, and determine how to support pedestrian safety going forward. Unfortunately, to date there have been no realistic, data-driven efforts within the research community that address these issues. In this work, we conduct a field study to empirically investigate crowd-sensed encounter data between e-scooters and pedestrian participants on two urban university campuses over a three-month period. We a

Author

Maiti, Anindya; Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, Nisha; Jadliwala, Murtuza; Wijewickrama, Raveen; Griffin, Greg P.

Published

2019

Language

EN