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

DOI:10.4121/fd499d06-53df-4f64-b0bc-5d2b55663e3f.v1
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DOI: 10.4121/fd499d06-53df-4f64-b0bc-5d2b55663e3f

Datacite citation style

Glachant, Clara; Cass, Noel; Marks, Nicholas; Azzouz, Labib (2025): Data underlying the publication ‘Between or Beyond Bicycles and Cars? Navigating E-Cargo Bike Citizenship in the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility’. Version 1. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/fd499d06-53df-4f64-b0bc-5d2b55663e3f.v1
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Dataset

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. 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 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).

History

  • 2025-07-02 first online, published, posted

Publisher

4TU.ResearchData

Format

pdf

Organizations

TU Eindhoven, Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences

DATA

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