Electric Scooters as an Urban Security Issue: Public Discourse on the New Law on Traffic Safety

Kolaković-Bojović, Milica and Paraušić Marinković, Ana (2023) Electric Scooters as an Urban Security Issue: Public Discourse on the New Law on Traffic Safety. In: International scientific thematic conference Traffic, Criminality and Urban Safety, Palic, 14-15 June 2023. Institut za kriminološka i sociološka istraživanja, Beograd, pp. 313-328. ISBN 978-86-80756-55-4

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Abstract

How to balance the need to ensure responsiveness in addressing present challenges in the field of traffic safety and urban security challenges, and to do that following the evidence-based policy making? This question appears to be relevant for the policy makers in Serbia, after the extensive use of e-scooters on the streets has become a real issue while remaining unregulated. Their attempts to do that have attracted a great attention of professional and general public. In this paper, authors analysed the public discourse on the draft Law on the traffic safety on the roads, in order to identify the main attitudes of citizens towards the conditions for use of e-scooters. Applying the content analyses of the news on media portals and Twitter posts, authors have also taken the opportunity to compare their 2023 findings with 2019 results of the initial research and to provide for a clear picture not only on the current public discourse on e-scooters, but also to identify the main trends describing how these attitudes are evolving trough the time. The authors also identified the need to change the way on how this issue is communicated by the decision makers with the citizens affected by the planned legislative amendments.

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