City Service for Short-Term E-Scooter Rental
The service for short-term rental of e-scooters in Moscow is represented by five companies: Whoosh, Urent, Yandex Go, Lite, EcoWay. To rent a scooter, users need to register in the operator’s app or in the ‘Moscow Transport’ app.
Special ‘slow zones’ were created to improve road safety in the city. These are zones in the busiest areas and parks, where the speed of e-scooters is automatically reduced to 5-15 km/h. In total, there are 189 slow zones in the city, 49 of them are located on the territory of residential areas.
All scooters have a built-in speed limiting device, and the maximum speed is 25 km/h. The scooters are also equipped with a headlight, a sound signal and a reflector, and mechanical brakes.
In the summer of 2022, the ‘Turn the Safety Mode On’ educational program was launched. It helps to learn safety rules for riding e-scooters. The educational program is available on the project website.
- The service was launched in 2018
- Users rented scooters over 400,000 times through the ‘Moscow Transport’ app
- In 2021, the service was used 8.6 million times
- In 2022, users took 26.3 million rides. During the year, the number of active users doubled and reached 2 million people
- During the season, the number of e-scooters increased from 25,000 to 40,000 electric scooters
- In 2022, on average, users took 104.2 thousand rides every day, which is 2.9 times more than a year earlier
- The percentage of transit rides has increased — in 80% of cases, scooters were rented to get to the office, school, park or shopping center
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