Interviews Related to the Bristol, UK Case Study for Inclusive Transitions to Electric Mobility, 2021-2024

City-level ambitions for urban electric mobility, including micro-mobility, are high, with a strong focus on speed of change and efficiency in light of restricted resources, but less is known about the social justice dimensions of these changes and how they will influence electric mobility ambitions across urban communities. To understand this, the primary data collection undertaken in this project comprised of semi-structured interviews. For Bristol, UK, the research participants for the policy and governance perspective comprised a mix of 13 local and national policymakers, electric mobility operators and researchers, and representatives of local civic society groups. A stakeholder mapping exercise was used to identify experts from different sectors, including existing contacts from previous research, who are engaged with policymaking in this domain. Recruitment was undertaken through directly approaching stakeholders, emails to colleagues requesting an introduction, and via the professional social media network, LinkedIn. The guide for the expert interviews was developed following the coding and analysis of published policy documents in the public domain, so that experts involved in the drafting and implementation of different policies could provide greater context and details about the policy processes that underlay those documents. To understand the household perspective, 27 urban residents were recruited through the social media pages / feeds of TravelWest, the Revive municipal charging network, and other local organisations, as well as the civic society group representatives interviewed as part of the policy perspective. Amazon vouchers were offered as an incentive to increase recruitment.