Lin, Xiao  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4929-1027, Wells, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4376-7178 and Sovacool, Benjamin K.
2017.
Benign mobility? Electric bicycles, sustainable transport consumption behaviour and socio-technical transitions in Nanjing, China.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
103
, pp. 223-234.
10.1016/j.tra.2017.06.014
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Abstract
In this paper, we ask whether electric bicycle (e-bike) use in urban China is a temporary phase or an embedded form of sustainable mobility. A survey was conducted in Nanjing in order to assess the characteristics and attitudes of electric bicycle users and other mode users (e.g. pedestrians; car drivers). Based on over 1000 responses a Logit Model was used to analyse current and future mode choice. The results show that electric bicycles are not necessarily displacing cars on a substantial scale, but are rather displacing the ‘benign’ modes of walking, traditional bicycling, and using the bus. We conclude that electric bicycles are helping to enable mobility-dependent lifestyles that may in the future be supported by cars, rather than offering a true departure from carbon-centred, motorized forms of transport.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Business (Including Economics) |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0965-8564 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 24 July 2017 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 24 June 2017 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2024 21:30 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/102852 |
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