This Topic Guide proposes best practice and key recommendations on the integration of micromobility in urban mobility planning, with the goal to achieve a safer use of micromobility devices in urban areas. It focuses on electrically assisted cycles and electrically powered personal mobility devices such as e-scooters, whether owned or shared, and electric assisted cycles, in an urban context. While the title can be misleading, it was decided not to focus the Topic Guide exclusively on road safety and technology, since those aspects have already been covered in other micromobility studies at EU level, but to address micromobility from a wider urban mobility planning perspective, with a focus on mobility planning.
In a fast-evolving urban transport environment, micromobility is changing how people move around the city. It brings along new and urgent challenges for local authorities, urban planners and national decision-makers. Despite getting off to a sometimes rocky start, micromobility may encourage both city leaders and micromobility providers to work hand-in-hand to forge a way ahead that serves the public good, meets city goals such as a modal shift towards more sustainable modes of transport, and enables the private sector to create viable business models.
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