TY - JOUR
T1 - Electrically-assisted bikes
T2 - Potential impacts on travel behaviour
AU - Cairns, Sally
AU - Behrendt, Frauke
AU - Raffo, David
AU - Beaumont, Claire
AU - Kiefer, Chris
N1 - © 2017 TRL Limited, University of Brighton and other collaborating authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
PY - 2017/7/12
Y1 - 2017/7/12
N2 - This paper reports on a review of the European literature about the impacts of having an electrically-assisted bike available to use, together with results from a trial in the UK city of Brighton, where 80 employees were loaned an electrically-assisted bike for a 6–8 week period. In the Brighton trial, three-quarters of those who were loaned an e-bike used them at least once a week. Across the sample as a whole, average usage was in the order of 15– 20 miles per week, and was accompanied by an overall reduction in car mileage of 20%. At the end of the trial, 38% participants expected to cycle more in the future, and at least 70% said that they would like to have an e-bike available for use in the future, and would cycle more if this was the case. This is consistent with the results of the European literature which shows that when e-bikes are made available, they get used; that a proportion of e-bike trips typically substitutes for car use; and that many people who take part in trials become interested in future e-bike use, or cycling more generally.
AB - This paper reports on a review of the European literature about the impacts of having an electrically-assisted bike available to use, together with results from a trial in the UK city of Brighton, where 80 employees were loaned an electrically-assisted bike for a 6–8 week period. In the Brighton trial, three-quarters of those who were loaned an e-bike used them at least once a week. Across the sample as a whole, average usage was in the order of 15– 20 miles per week, and was accompanied by an overall reduction in car mileage of 20%. At the end of the trial, 38% participants expected to cycle more in the future, and at least 70% said that they would like to have an e-bike available for use in the future, and would cycle more if this was the case. This is consistent with the results of the European literature which shows that when e-bikes are made available, they get used; that a proportion of e-bike trips typically substitutes for car use; and that many people who take part in trials become interested in future e-bike use, or cycling more generally.
U2 - 10.1016/j.tra.2017.03.007
DO - 10.1016/j.tra.2017.03.007
M3 - Article
SN - 0965-8564
VL - 103
SP - 327
EP - 342
JO - Transportation Research Part A - Policy and Practice
JF - Transportation Research Part A - Policy and Practice
ER -