مورد إلكتروني
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility
| العنوان: | E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility |
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| بيانات النشر: | Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten Tema Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden 2023 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Edberg, Karin |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | Over the last few years, electrically assisted cycling, e-biking, has increased substantially worldwide. Replacing car driving for individual journeys, especially commuting, is highlighted as important to mitigate climate change, improve public health, and reduce congestion and other unwanted consequences connected to the car. Car driving, how-ever, is still the overwhelmingly dominant mode of personal transport globally and the ‘system of automobility’ permeates the whole of soci-ety. Flexibility and autonomy are considered the main reasons for the car’s dominance (Urry 2004). By analysing interviews and diaries kept by e-bikers, collected in semi-urban and urban settings in Sweden, this art-icle aims to contribute to knowledge about emerging micromobility practices such as e-biking in relation to a transport system where flexi-bility is the norm. The results show that e-biking encompasses elements that give the practice potential to both recruit and retain practitioners. By successfully combining elements of conventional cycling and car driving, it offers reliability, convenience, and flexibility. E-biking facili-tates transforming a dull commute into leisure as the rider can enjoy the sensuous and reflective aspects of the journey. At the same time, through that squeezing of time, it does not challenge prevailing struc-tures but rather maintains the time-space of automobility |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | E-biking; micromobility; flexibility; practice theory; sustainable transport system; diaries, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary, Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap, Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology), Sociologi (exklusive socialt arbete, socialpsykologi och socialantropologi), Article in journal, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, text |
| DOI: | 10.1080.17450101.2023.2259111 |
| URL: | Mobilities, 1745-0101, 2023, s. 1-16 |
| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| ملاحظة: | application/pdf English |
| أرقام أخرى: | UPE oai:DiVA.org:liu-199041 0000-0003-0407-7446 doi:10.1080/17450101.2023.2259111 1416036739 |
| المصدر المساهم: | UPPSALA UNIV LIBR From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsoai.on1416036739 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OAIster |
| DOI: | 10.1080.17450101.2023.2259111 |
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