Among other things, the use of electric tools will be limited and you will be required to wear a helmet • More than 10% of the city's travel is now carried out by personal tiny tools, which help reduce congestion.

• Tel Aviv Scooters // Photo: Jonathan Zagori

In August 2019, the municipality began a process to regulate the placement of tiny, collaborative tools for rent in the public space. Obtaining the permit to place the tools in the public space has been subject to a number of conditions: availability around the city, maintaining order in the public space, preferred service areas, limiting the maximum number of tools, passing on regular information to the municipality, preventing use of minors, prohibiting parking near educational institutions, operating a hotline, Disabling the alarm at night and having adequate insurance.

Now, by 2020, the municipality has decided to continue piloting with road safety officials, adding rules aimed at reducing the negative effects of using small-scale tools in road safety and public order, with the primary task of eliminating the curb phenomenon.

Photo: Police spokeswoman

The rules that will now be included include:

Helmet duty: The municipality decided to charge all operators of the cooperative transport vehicle to provide a helmet, by connecting it to each electric vehicle. The final forest valuation for this requirement is June 15, 2020. As the condition is added, the municipality has requested the Ministry of the Interior to obtain enforcement authority for a non-helmet riding offense, and is negotiating with officials in the field.

Travel restricted areas: In areas where there are many pedestrians, electric tools will not be used electrically and electronically, which means that the permit holder will automatically switch off the vehicle at the entrance to the designated restricted area - from February 1, 2020. For example, a ban on the wooden surface in Tel Aviv Port.

Multi-pedestrian areas : In areas where the municipality has identified high friction with pedestrians, the speed of electric tools will be limited to 15 mph, starting February 1, 2020. For example, the bike path on the Gordon Beach promenade.

Identification numbers: Permits will be required to install an identification number for all tools. In addition, the municipality will allow the general public to take pictures using the 106 collaborative tools that travel on the sidewalks and send the picture, together with a geographical landmark and a time signature for the city center. The images, together with the relevant information, will be forwarded to the operator whose vehicle is found traveling on the pavement. This procedure will begin on January 1, 2020.

Parking Restricted Areas: Areas where parking is prohibited will be allowed outside the designated parking spaces designated for that purpose. In addition to the approximately 220 designated parking chambers marked in District 3, another 180 parking cells were marked in District 5 (south of Bogershov). In these areas you will not be able to finish traveling and lock the tools outside the cells. The municipality is currently working to mark cells in other boroughs in the city, as well as train stations. This enforcement will begin from January 1, 2020.

Battery cycle billing: The municipality will require permit holders to recycle the batteries of discontinued tools as of April 1, 2020.

Meital Lehavi, owner of the Tel Aviv municipality's transport portfolio: "According to Icholov Hospital, 15% of accidents are head injuries that can be prevented if riders wear helmets. The billing of companies to attach a helmet to any cooperative electric vehicle is designed to ensure that every casual, even casual rider who gets on the cooperative vehicle rides with the necessary head protection required by law. This guideline joins a long list of conditions that we have written in favor of regulating the use of collaborative electric tools in the public space, and this January, licensing numbers will be added to all the tools and a dedicated enforcement unit will begin operating. However, the regulation also requires the use of private electric tools, which depend on legislation or national regulations, and as long as we are in the transition government and with a dysfunctional Knesset - we in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality dictate conditions to the best of our ability to operate in the city.