Over the last three years there have been e-scooter trials in over 20 UK cities/local authorities, there has been a Government consultation, there have been numerous newspaper articles reporting on the trials and also on some of the controversies surrounding this mode of transport.

Some very serious academic research has been carried out by (amongst others) a team at North Carolina State University as regards their environmental impacts. Uppsala University in Sweden has carried out research into typical accidents involving e-scooters.

Here are a few selected links....

The city of Canterbury was the site of one major study in the UK. Click here for Kent CC's report (2022)

Here is the final report on e-scooters in Greater Manchester  from a team at Salford University

Here are the findings from the national evaluation of the e-scooter trials in England (December 2022)

Here is the Government's response to the trials

This is an academic study of the environmental friendliness - or not - of e-scooters from a team of researchers at North Carolina State University

Uppsala University in Sweden has carried out research into typical e-scooter accidents

But are they legal in the UK?

Here is Oliver Wainright's article in the Guardian from 6th November 2023

Sammy Gecsoyler wrote along the same lines in October 2023

SUSTRANS has taken a position on e-scooters - click here to read their views