Elevate Project: Participant Interview Data, 2023-2024

The dataset consists of professionally transcribed semi-structured interviews (n=110). The interviews were between 20 and 90 minutes long. They were recorded before (n=48) and after (n=55) month-long free loans of electric cargo bikes in suburbs of Leeds, Oxford and Brighton in Summer-Autumn 2023, and after (n=10) winter loans of the e-cargo bikes for between 3 and 6 months in Winter-Spring 2023-4.

Leeds pre-summer interviews (n=16)
Leeds post-summer interviews (n=18)
Leeds post-winter interviews (n=3)
Oxford pre-summer interviews (n-16)
Oxford post-summer interviews (n-19)
Oxford post-winter interviews (n-3)
Brighton pre-summer interviews (n=17)
Brighton post-summer interviews (n=18)
Brighton post-winter interviews (n=4)

These interviews collected pre-trial everyday travel routines and expectations of use of the e-cargo bikes with the post-trial reality. This enabled us to explore: which trips had been undertaken with the e-cargo bike, and why; which had not, and why; which travel routines suited the e-cargo bike; which unexpected trips were generated with its availability; the subjective, affective and embodied experiences of e-cargo bike usage, as well as the post-trial intention to buy, and recommendations to policy-makers about how to make e-cargo bike usage and ownership more attractive. Some interviews involved multiple householders, including children.