Research on Consumers’ Use Willingness and Opinions of Electric Vehicle Sharing: An Empirical Study in Shanghai

As an icon of sharing economy and product service systems, bicycle sharing is gaining an increasing global popularity, yet there is little knowledge about the environmental performance of this emerging traveling mode. To seek the answer to the question, the paper employs a survey-based method and a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach. We first conduct a questionnaire-based survey to identify the changes in traveling modes after the introduction of shared bicycles. The survey results show that the use of shared bicycles is more popular among young and low-income populations, and shared bicycles are predominantly used to replace walking and bus-taking. Based on the survey results, we model the environmental impacts of the changed traveling behaviors and the life cycle of shared bicycle with the aid of Gabi software. The LCA results shows that bicycle sharing is currently an environmentally friendly practice, as it brings environmental savings in all the indicators except metal consumption. Further, the results of sensitivity analysis show that aging, rising rental fees, and increasing volume of shared bicycles would impart negative impacts on the environmental performance of bicycle sharing. The findings of this work facilitate the management and development of bicycle sharing.

Section: Demographic Informationsupporting

confidence: 76%

Is Bicycle Sharing an Environmental Practice? Evidence from a Life Cycle Assessment Based on Behavioral Surveys

Zheng

Zhang

et al. 2019

“…Policies to help consumers find electricity charging facilities, to reduce charging rates, to cut parking rates, to grant car plates unrestrictedly, and to enable trial driving can all effectively encourage potential consumers to buy EVs. The city-level results not only verify many researchers' theoretical explorations into consumer preferences and consumer-oriented policies at the national level [6,14], but also correspond to micro-level data obtained through questionnaire surveys [19,27,28]. The effects of special lanes are not yet obvious, which might be due to the reason that most cities in China have not implemented this policy.…”

Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 73%

Consumer-Oriented Policy towards Diffusion of Electric Vehicles: City-Level Evidence from China

Zhang¹,

Xu²,

Zhang³

2016

Public policy is crucial for the diffusion of green innovation, and debates exist about the effects of different policies. This paper explores appropriate types of policy instruments by explaining the quick rise in sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in China. Based on a three-year longitudinal dataset across 88 cities, the study shows that consumer-oriented policies are able to significantly promote EV diffusion. Consumer-oriented policies target consumers to facilitate their usage of cars and lower the lifecycle cost, and typical examples include electricity charging and traffic management. This paper contributes to the literature of clean technology policy in two ways. Firstly, it reveals and empirically tests the importance of consumer-oriented policy instruments for the deployment of green innovation. Secondly, it is one of very few scholarly works offering a detailed review of city-level policies in China's EV industry, which will be useful for scholars who are also interested in similar topics.

“…Consequently, overall energy consumption and GHG emission levels in the transportation sector are likely to rise further. This increase is in spite of the fact that-besides the quantitative numbers-the societal and corporate acceptance of the overall sustainability concept for logistics is assumed to be a given, though major concerns for e.g., customer acceptance [23,24], reach (i.e., for governmental as well as non-governmental non-profit organizations, see [25,26]), as well as control and monitoring [15,27,28] resume. Still, the described research question of why the concept of green and sustainable logistics failed in general, especially regarding emissions impact, remains open; but before diving deeper into it we must take a look in Section 3 at the technology development, which for many actors is the main source of hope for successful green logistics.…”

Section: History and Status Quomentioning

confidence: 99%

To Green or Not to Green: A Political, Economic and Social Analysis for the Past Failure of Green Logistics

Klumpp

2016

Abstract:The objective of green logistics has thus far failed. For example, the share of greenhouse gas emissions by the transportation and logistics sector in Europe rose from 16.6% in 1990 to 24.3% in 2012. This article analyzes the reasons behind this failure by drawing on political, economic and business as well as social motivations and examples. At the core of this analysis are the established theorems of the Jevons paradox and the median voter (Black, Downs) in combination with time-distorted preferences of voters and consumers. Adding to the hurdles of green logistics are the problems of short-term political programs and decisions versus long-term business investments in transportation and logistics. Two cases from Germany are outlined regarding this political "meddling through" with a recent 2015 truck toll decision and the support for electric trucks and vehicles. Finally, the article proposes two ways forward: public control and restriction of carbon raw materials (coal, oil), as well as public investment in low-emission transport infrastructure or biofuels as the more feasible and likely alternative.