City administrations of 10 Polish cities received an electric scooter so that officials could try this type of transport. This is the Mobile Office - Active Official campaign of the pan-European urban mobility project Cities. multimodal.

Each city administration received an electric scooter for an unlimited period. Officials will be able to take turns using it, for example, to get to a meeting during office hours or home and to work, Europulse says..

The main goal of the project is to help officials competently develop such an urban transport system that would be convenient to use not only for drivers and pedestrians, but also for cyclists, owners of electric scooters, gyro scooters and other light and environmentally friendly modes of transport..

Electric scooters are equipped with distance counters, thanks to which it is possible to calculate how many carbon dioxide emissions a person has “saved” by reaching their destination by environmentally friendly transport. In the coming year, 10 participating administrations will compete with each other on this indicator.

In recent years, electric scooters have become very popular in European cities.. The authorities react to the new mode of transport in different ways. For example, in Germany and Belgium, the authorities are encouraging the use of electric scooters because this mode of transport is more environmentally friendly than private cars and public transport, and also does not create congestion.. But at the same time, electric scooters turned out to be a rather dangerous form of transport, according to one Danish study: people on electric scooters are injured in road accidents 7 times more often than cyclists. To reduce risks, some cities, such as Paris, impose speed limits on electric scooters.