Disruptive Innovation on Two Wheels: Chinese Urban Transportation and Electrification of the Humble Bike

Simha, Prithvi

doi:10.3311/pptr.8811

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“…As the fear of overcrowding is intensified by the risk of contagion, people are showing reluctance to use mass transit systems, which are perceived as a vector for the distribution of the virus [86]. Hence, public transport ridership plummeted greatly in the early phases of the pandemic [45] and as we previously mentioned people have shifted to other modes such as cycling, walking, and private vehicle use (this shift is in line with previous studies investigating the case of SARS outbreak in China, e.g., [87]). According to Teixeira and Lopes [29], who investigated the case of New York, the ridership of the subway system experienced a decrease of around 90%.…”

Section: The Role Of Cycling In the Travel Eco-system And The Covid-19 Disruptionsupporting

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Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our cities in monumental ways with no sector likely being more severely impacted than transport. Lockdowns, physical spacing, transport restrictions and stay-at-home guidelines have transformed personal mobility and highlighted the mistakes of an unbalanced pro-car culture that defined a century of urban planning. One immediate effect of the virus in relation to travel demand and supply was the emergence of active travel modes because of their unique ability to provide a socially distanced way of transport. Cycling is one of the modes that has enjoyed significant attention. Numerous cities have reallocated street and public space to cyclists and introduced pro-bike interventions like pop-up cycle lanes, e-bike subsidies, free bike-share use and traffic calming measures. This newly found outbreak-induced momentum creates an opportunity to establish a new ethos that allows the promotion of potentially permanent strategies that may help cycling to be (re-)established as a robust, mainstream and resilient travel mode for inner city trips and not as a second-class alternative operating under the automobile’s giant shadow. This paper provides a state-of-the-art description of the anti-COVID cycling-friendly initiatives that have been introduced globally, the successes and failures of these initiatives, the lessons learnt that can help us redefine the bicycle’s role in local societies today and a best cycling practice policy guide for planning a more bike-centric future.

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Section: The Role Of Cycling In the Travel Eco-system And The Covid-19 Disruptionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

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“…And yet, the safety systems that such sensors enable could have an important impact, due to the high number of tilting vehicles in the fleets at global level [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]. Current mobility trends are in favor of the usage of tilting vehicles [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ], partially thanks to their potential for: electrification, recyclability and air-quality improvement [ 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ]. However, tilting vehicles are characterized by a high injury risk for their users, warranting the implementation of new and more effective safety technologies.…”

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Motorcycles that See: Multifocal Stereo Vision Sensor for Advanced Safety Systems in Tilting Vehicles

Gil

Savino

Piantini

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Advanced driver assistance systems, ADAS, have shown the possibility to anticipate crash accidents and effectively assist road users in critical traffic situations. This is not the case for motorcyclists, in fact ADAS for motorcycles are still barely developed. Our aim was to study a camera-based sensor for the application of preventive safety in tilting vehicles. We identified two road conflict situations for which automotive remote sensors installed in a tilting vehicle are likely to fail in the identification of critical obstacles. Accordingly, we set two experiments conducted in real traffic conditions to test our stereo vision sensor. Our promising results support the application of this type of sensors for advanced motorcycle safety applications.

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“…However, the group of potential customers now is rather small, as electric cars are very expensive, but as Simha (2016) highlights, other vehicles, such as e-bikes shall be considered in decarbonizing urban transportation. Nevertheless, now only wealthy and environmentally conscious people can afford buying e-cars.…”

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Business Models to Exploit Possibilities of E-mobility: An Electricity Distribution System Operator Perspective

Vokony

Hartmann

Kiss

et al. 2019

Period. Polytech. Transp. Eng.

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E-mobility is a fast-developing field of electrical industry not only in in Hungary but in Europe and worldwide as well. Besides their environmental, social and economic benefits, electric cars offer further significant possibilities for distribution system operators, for example through the exploitation of controlled charging. This is a hot research topic, but uniform and well-tried solutions are still not available. Actors in electromobility are still forming, thus it is still not known which customer groups might be partners in controlled charging.Present paper enlists solutions offering more than traditional optimization processes based on solely one objective function. The five business solutions proposed here aim at matching electric cars with the present and future operation of DSOs. Two methods (Vehicle2Home and Night Rider) target individual customers, while the other three proposals (E-pump, plug&WORK, ENTERPRISeFLEET) are for fleets. A common framework is used to describe these methods here, and both potential customers and the advantages for DSOs are given. Out of the five solutions above, a detailed business model was developed for three concepts, specifying costs and expected incomes. Avoided costs were identified separately, which include all expenses that might be qualitatively or quantitatively influenced by charging of electric cars or controlled charging.

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Disruptive Innovation on Two Wheels: Chinese Urban Transportation and Electrification of the Humble Bike

Abstract: This communication argues that the electrification of the con-

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

Motorcycles that See: Multifocal Stereo Vision Sensor for Advanced Safety Systems in Tilting Vehicles

Business Models to Exploit Possibilities of E-mobility: An Electricity Distribution System Operator Perspective

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