Shared Electric Scooter Users and Non-Users: Perceptions on Safety, Adoption and Risk

Shared electric scooters (e-scooters) offer a potential strategy to mitigate environmental concerns and congestion. However, successfully addressing these issues with e-scooters requires adoption across diverse array of consumers. Understanding the differences between users non-users can improve shared e-scooter appeal, operation safety. The objective this paper is compare in terms their perceptions on safety, trip behaviors, other modes, risk propensity willingness adopt technology. A survey was conducted involving 210 (51.3%) 199 (48.7%) e-scooters. Binary logistic regression chi-squared tests were performed. results reveal that demonstrated higher more likely be early adopters new technologies. Non-users tended place importance helmet use, while have an overall increased feeling safety associated riding vehicle lanes, sidewalks being passed by as pedestrian. Overall, also positive perception sanitary levels than non-users, usability over e-bicycles. These findings provide guidance urban planners, municipal authorities micromobility providers developing infrastructure policies better support adoption.