Improving E-Scooter Safety: Deployment Policy Recommendations, Design Optimization, and Training Development

Electric scooters, or e-scooters, have become an increasingly popular form of transportation over the recent years. However, there have been numerous reports of safety concerns, crashes, and injuries for e-scooter riders and other road users as a result of e-scooter misuse. Until recently, very little formal research has been conducted on the safety of this micromobility solution. This dissertation describes a series of studies that have investigated the contributing factors to safety concerns and identified countermeasures, such as policy recommendations, design optimization, and training, that can be implemented with an end goal of improving e-scooter safety.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Biomedical Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Novotny, Adam James

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Doerzaph, Zachary R.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Perez, Miguel A.
• Untaroiu, Costin D.
• Klauer, Charlie
• Mollenhauer, Michael A.

• e-scooter
• micromobility
• naturalistic driving study
• design
• training

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:36349

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/113295