Data underlying the publication ‘Between or Beyond Bicycles and Cars? Navigating E-Cargo Bike Citizenship in the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility’

This dataset corresponds to the study titled ‘Between or Beyond Bicycles and Cars? Navigating E-Cargo Bike Citizenship in the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility’, authored by Clara Glachant, Noel Cass, Nicholas Mark and Labib Azzouz.<em> </em>This article introduces the concept of ‘e-cargo bike citizenship’ as a cultural identity shaped through e-cargo cycling practices to understand how they challenge both automobility and vélomobility in transitions to sustainable urban mobility. We analysed 108 interviews with 49 e-cargo bike users in Brighton, Leeds, and Oxford, conducted during a trial loan project. Results indicate that e-cargo bike citizenship broadens cycling identities in contexts where cycling has negative cultural associations. Additionally, e-cargo bike citizenship is often family citizenship, contrasting with individualised cycling, and contesting the norm of motorised family mobility. E-cargo cycling also enables interactions ‘inside’ between rider and passenger(s), reminiscent of automobile citizenship, while being connected ‘outside’ to local communities, reinforcing a sense of belonging that echoes cycling citizenship. Our findings contribute to geography and mobilities research by considering e-cargo bikes’ hybridity, beyond cars and bicycles, and highlight the significance of citizenships in urban mobility transitions, focusing on domestic<em> </em>e-cargo bikes, contrasting with previous studies’ last-mile logistics focus. The dataset contains the interview guide used in this study. The interview transcripts are available on the UK Data Service’s online data repository (Cass et al., 2024).