Persönliches MobilitätsgerätWallonien

Belgian law uses the term voortbewegingstoestel for a category that includes both non-motorised and motorised personal mobility devices.

Examples include electric scooters, electric skateboards, monowheels, self-balancing electric devices, powered wheelchairs and mobility scooters.

A motorised personal transporter must have a construction-determined maximum speed of no more than 25 km/h.

Users of motorised personal transporters are treated as cyclists. They therefore follow the traffic rules applying to cyclists unless a specific rule provides otherwise.

Yes, where the corresponding cyclist rules require use of an available and usable cycle path. Because users of motorised personal transporters are treated as cyclists, they generally follow the same road-position rules.

Normally not as an ordinary pedestrian. A motorised personal-transporter user is treated as a cyclist and must follow the applicable cyclist road-position rules rather than simply riding on the pavement at walking speed.

A person with reduced mobility using a motorised personal transporter intended for that purpose and travelling at no more than walking speed is treated as a pedestrian and may use the pedestrian facilities accordingly.

You must normally be at least 16 years old to ride a motorised personal transporter on the public road.

Yes. The minimum age does not apply in certain places including residential areas and home zones, certain reserved roads, permitted pedestrian zones and play streets. It also does not apply to qualifying persons with reduced mobility using an appropriate device.

No. Motorised personal transporters are not treated as motor vehicles for the purposes of the Belgian driving-licence rules, so an ordinary electric scooter within this category does not require a driving licence.

No, unless the device was specifically built to transport passengers. A personal transporter may not carry more passengers than the number for which its seating positions are designed.

A motorised personal transporter with a handlebar must always have a white reflector at the front and a red reflector at the rear. Motorised personal transporters must also have the prescribed lateral reflective markings.

A motorised personal transporter with a handlebar must have an audible warning device that can be heard from at least 20 metres.

Yes. Motorised personal transporters must have a sufficiently effective braking system.

When travelling outside areas reserved for pedestrians between nightfall and dawn or when visibility is below approximately 200 metres, the user must display a white or yellow light at the front and a red light at the rear.

The maximum permitted width of a personal transporter is 1 metre.

Personal transporters must normally be placed outside the carriageway and ordinary parking strips without creating danger or obstruction, unless a specifically marked parking place permits them there.

Yes. Belgian traffic signs and road markings can designate parking places specifically for personal transporters, including shared personal transporters.