LEVA-EU’s active participation in the European Commission’s Expert Group on Urban Mobility (EGUM) has led to a significant milestone: the official recognition of light electric mobility as a key component of sustainable urban mobility. This recognition, alongside walking and cycling, was successfully integrated into the EU Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030. It highlights LEVA-EU’s influential role in shaping policies that acknowledge the importance of light electric mobility, ensuring that it is considered within the context of road safety and urban logistics.

On 17 February 2025, the EGUM published its final set of reports, including a range of recommendations and feedback on urban mobility topics, concluding its 2023-2024 Work Programme. Among the key areas covered in the reports were Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans (SULPs), the use of data for zero-emission urban logistics, parking policies, and urban mobility transformation driven by technological and societal trends. These recommendations aim to improve urban mobility systems, reduce environmental impacts, and enhance safety for all users, including those of light electric mobility devices.

LEVA-EU actively participated in several subgroups of EGUM, contributing to a major achievement: the official acknowledgment of light electric mobility alongside walking and cycling. In the Recommendations for the Commission’s mid-term review of the EU Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030, LEVA-EU successfully ensured that every statement, previously limited to walking and cycling, was supplemented by light electric mobility. Furthermore, EGUM officially recognised that a better definition of ‘vulnerable road users’ should include light electric mobility and micromobility devices.

Further recommendations from EGUM within this framework include:

• The Commission should incentivise local authorities to better count pedestrians, cyclists, and users of light electric mobility and micromobility, while also recording their behavior in traffic and their self-reported experiences on the roads, including their perceptions of safety.
• Minimum requirements for improving existing road infrastructure and creating new infrastructure are essential for reducing road deaths and serious injuries among people who walk, cycle, use light electric vehicles, micromobility devices, and powered two-wheelers. Such requirements should eventually be incorporated into EU law to complement (and not overrule) existing high-quality infrastructure guidelines.
• The Commission should, together with Member States, develop a new EU Key Performance Indicator (KPI) on pedestrian, cyclist, light electric mobility, and powered two-wheeler infrastructure safety as part of the KPIs in the EU Road Safety Strategy.

Furthermore, EGUM explicitly pointed out that many new light electric vehicles are on the road without being properly recognised in EU technical legislation and national traffic codes. This lack of recognition and the ensuing inadequate legislation create risks for the users of these vehicles. Without this recognition, users cannot be properly protected on the road. Harmonised technical rules, road traffic rules, and road safety statistics must be adapted to include these vehicles. The Commission must develop harmonized technical legislation and mandate related standards, specifically for these vehicles, in close consultation with the light electric vehicle sector. The Commission must also collaborate with Member States on streamlining traffic codes for light electric vehicles and on fully acknowledging them in road infrastructure.

The same recognition was reinforced in the recommendations on Urban Logistics: see EGUM Recommendations on Data Sharing for Sustainable Urban Logistics.

The full set of EGUM reports and recommendations is available here: Expert Group on Urban Mobility.