Cycling@Tea-time: rental bikes and e-scooters – „what gives?“ 15 December 2021

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*please note our apologies that this recording is incomplete due to technical errors – the recording begins part of the way through Richard’s talk

Cycling@Tea-time is slipping in just before Christmas with a session on rental bikes and e-scooters. Or shared micromobility, if you prefer. Certain cycle-hire schemes have gone through some rocky times lately – why? And where to from here? e-scooters, meanwhile, are everywhere, or so we are led to believe. With the English rental trials being extended, what do we know so far?

We’ll have two talks from people who really know their shared-mobility onions:
Shared micromobility: where we are and where we could go, By Richard Dilks
Richard is the Chief Executive of CoMoUK, which „is playing a leading role in the UK’s transition to integrated mobility solutions designed for the public good“ (CoMoUK website). Richard was previously transport programme director at the business group London First, where he led policy and advocacy across all transport modes and across services and infrastructure and he has served on the board of London TravelWatch.

e-scooter rental trials: policy context and what we know so far, by Lorna Stevenson
Lorna Stevenson is a part-time doctoral student at Westminster’s Active Travel Academy. The title of her research project is Micromobile Futures and, as part of this, she is investigating the policy and governance structures surrounding the rental trials currently taking place in England. Alongside her studies, Lorna is very much involved in the e-scooter scene, sitting on Dott’s safety advisory group and taking part in meetings of the London Micromobility Alliance.