Attitudes Towards E-scooter Safety - A Survey in Five Countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/tots.2024.009" target="_blank" >10.5507/tots.2024.009</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Attitudes Towards E-scooter Safety - A Survey in Five Countries
Original language description
E-scooters are quite popular among young people in big cities. Their use seems to be a well-studied phenomenon. This study concentrates on the risky behaviour of e-scooter riders and on e-scooter riders' and non-riders' attitudes towards risky e-scooter riding. The goals were to describe these attitudes and to describe the most common types of risky e-scooter behaviours in five participating countries. An online questionnaire was developed and distributed in Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Norway from June to September 2020. Respondents were recruited through sponsored Facebook ads and participant sharing (snowball sampling).The riders in the countries considered in this study tend to perceive e-scooters as being quite safe. The majority of them even think e-scooters pose no danger to other road users. On the other hand, the non-riders believe riding an e-scooter is rather unsafe, with the exception of Belgium, where the respondents tend to think that it is very unsafe. When risky behaviour is considered, the non-riders tend to report more risky behaviour than e-scooter riders, even though fact-based observable behaviour, e.g. helmet use, should in principle be the same across both groups. In addition, as the existing literature shows, evidence suggests that young riders and male riders engage in more risky riding behaviours in comparison to older and female riders. This phenomenon should be addressed by effective preventive programmers and campaigns. The data shows that a greater frequency of riding predicted more risky riding behaviours. Although there are some differences between the samples under study, these findings can inspire police officers to promote e-scooter safety behaviour.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Transactions on Transport Sciences
ISSN
1802-9876
e-ISSN
1802-9876
Volume of the periodical
2024
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
"August"
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85204733340