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).

本数据集对应一项题为《自行车与汽车之间，抑或是超越二者？可持续城市交通转型中的电动货运自行车（e-cargo bike）公民身份探析》的研究，作者为克拉拉·格拉尚（Clara Glachant）、诺埃尔·卡斯（Noel Cass）、尼古拉斯·马克（Nicholas Mark）与拉比布·阿祖兹（Labib Azzouz）。本文提出“电动货运自行车公民身份”这一概念，将其视为通过电动货运骑行实践塑造的文化身份，旨在理解电动货运自行车如何在可持续城市交通转型进程中，同时挑战机动化交通（automobility）与骑行交通（vélomobility）范式。本研究针对布莱顿、利兹与牛津三地的49名电动货运自行车使用者开展了共108次访谈，访谈均实施于一项试用租赁项目期间。研究结果显示，在骑行文化带有负面刻板印象的语境中，电动货运自行车公民身份拓展了骑行身份的内涵。此外，电动货运自行车公民身份往往带有家庭属性，与个体化骑行形成鲜明对比，同时也对机动化家庭出行的固有范式提出了挑战。电动货运骑行还能实现骑行者与搭乘者之间的“车内”互动，这一点与汽车出行的公民身份特质相呼应；同时又能与本地社区建立“外部”联结，强化了与骑行公民身份相契合的归属感。本研究通过探讨电动货运自行车兼具汽车与自行车双重属性的混合特质，为地理学与交通流动研究提供了新的视角；同时，相较于既往研究聚焦末端物流的研究方向，本研究聚焦家用电动货运自行车，凸显了公民身份在城市交通转型中的重要意义。本数据集包含本研究使用的访谈提纲。访谈转录文本可在英国数据服务中心（UK Data Service）的在线数据仓库中获取（卡斯等，2024）。