INTER-OFFICE MEMO

The report did not break down injuries by type; the number of head injuries in the 33 cases reviewed is unknown.

There are 500 shared e-scooters operating in the City of Calgary.

City of Portland

In a recent report ("2018 E-Scooter Findings Report"), the Portland Department of Transportation (PDOT) reported outcomes of a number of measures related to Portland's e-scooter pilot program.

This report included injury statistics from their local health unit (the Multnomah County Health Department) for emergency departments and urgent care clinics in their area of responsibility for the period of July through November, 2018. The report made the following key points:

•  176 emergency department and urgent care clinic visits related to e-scooters were identified during the study period.
• o Over the same period, 700,000 e-scooter share trips occurred (i.e. approximately 1 in 3980 e-scooter trips resulted in an emergency department or urgent care visit).
•  The overall rate of emergency department and urgent care visits for scooter injuries was 2.2 per 10,000 miles traveled on rental e-scooters, and 2.5 per 10,000 trips taken.
• o These rates include injuries that may not be related to rental e-scooters, so the actual rate for rental escooter is likely lower.
•  "About a third" of injuries were to the head or neck.
• o In 7% of cases, there was a concussion diagnosis.
•  84% of cases involved riders falling off a scooter; no contact between the scooter/rider and another vehicle or a pedestrian was reported.
•  For 83% of emergency department or urgent care visits involving e-scooters, the patient was between 18 and 44.
•  Helmet usage rates were unclear; for 84 percent of visits, no information was recorded about helmet use.
• o Where helmet use was reported, 79% of e-scooter riders were reported as riding without a helmet.
• o Field observations by PDOT staff found 90% of e-scooter riders riding without a helmet.
•  The Portland report was the one report identified in Administration's review that compared the risks of escooters to the risks for other travel modes.
• o Preliminary data suggest that the risk of injury per ride for a scooter is on the order of 1.5 to 2 times the risk for bicycling.