00:00 A ban of electric scooters comes into effect on Friday in Paris.
00:04 Following a vote back in April, locals complained that the nifty way to get around town is causing a nuisance.
00:09 Urban mobility in Europe is a dynamic and developing sector,
00:12 but finding alternatives to car travel in cities is proving divisive between the public and private sector.
00:17 That's what each city in Europe is looking for, replacing car trips by more sustainable modes.
00:26 And that kind of data exchange and that kind of understanding based on facts is currently still under development.
00:37 Paris is not the first city to introduce a ban.
00:41 Copenhagen originally banned e-scooters, but they are now allowed in the city centre under stricter conditions.
00:47 The best way to have better grip on the use of e-scooters is to introduce a kind of licensing scheme
00:59 that allows for a sustainable procurement of these services.
01:04 And there we have many examples from cities across Europe that introduced such a licensing scheme.
01:10 Data on the use of e-scooters is still uncharted,
01:13 something urban planners want to make more transparent in order to improve safety and sustainability.
01:19 The important question we need to ask is, do e-scooters create a shift from individual car use to a more sustainable mode?
01:32 Like how many car trips have e-scooters replaced?
01:36 We know that's the case for public transport, for bicycles.
01:40 They really create a shift to more active sustainable modes.
01:44 For e-scooters, that picture is not clear yet.
01:48 A broader trend is that European cities are turning their attention to pedestrians.
01:53 If you think about cyclists, car users, shared car users, public transport users,
02:00 at some point we all walk, so it's the first mode.
02:04 And that realization has finally arrived and many cities have started to invest more.
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