TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cloud, Cannon
A1  - Heß, Simon
A1  - Kasinger, Johannes
T1  - Shared e-scooter services and road safety: evidence from six European countries
T2  - European economic review
N2  - We estimate the causal effect of shared e-scooter services on traffic accidents by exploiting the variation in the availability of e-scooter services induced by the staggered rollout across 93 cities in six countries. Police-reported accidents involving personal injuries in the average month increased by around 8.2% after shared e-scooters were introduced. Effects are large during summer and insignificant during winter. Further heterogeneity analysis reveals the largest estimated effects for cities with limited cycling infrastructure, while no effects are detectable in cities with high bike-lane density. This difference suggests that public policy can play a crucial role in mitigating accidents related to e-scooters and, more generally, to changes in urban mobility.
KW  - Urban mobility
KW  - Staggered rollout
KW  - Road infrastructure
KW  - Traffic accidents
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/79148
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-791483
SN  - 0014-2921
VL  - 160
IS  - 104593
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -