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E-scooters? Perhaps. But let’s be clear why.

Tom Cohen, University College London
08 November 2019
Tom Cohen
Tom Cohen

 

At a recent meeting of the now-legendary Cycling@Tea-time (see Tom’s biographical line – Ed), I asked the speakers whether the advent of e-scooters re-emphasised our need to search for the transport equivalent of the unified field theory. This question enabled anyone who had been in any doubt to conclude that I am indeed a pompous git!

But it had a serious point to it too: if we had a complete understanding of the characteristics of all the various types of transport that vie for...

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