Regulating micro-mobility based on incomplete data sets?

Within the basket of mobility options, micro-mobility is among the most recent and innovative options enabling citizens to move around cities. In some cases, regulators are introducing rules for this new service based on incomplete or outdated data; in particular, regarding incidents. There are different reasons that lead to this unavailability of data. Firstly, there is no standardised approach to reporting accident data, neither on a European Union (EU) level nor on a national level. Secondly, where data is recorded, it is done using different methodologies, which results in data being incomparable. Hence, there was a need for the industry to be proactive by aggregating the data of six operators across Europe.

Micro-mobility can be a real asset to cities in fighting climate change, but benefits like reducing emissions are not always taken into account as the safety of innovative mobility services, such as micro-mobility, often dominate media coverage, with much less attention given to its performance compared to other modes, or to the societal benefits that shared micro-mobility services create.

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