The bicycle and the dream of a sustainable city: An explorative comparison of the image of bicycles in the mass-media and the general public

Rimano, Alessandra; Piccini, Maria Paola; Passafaro, Paola; Metastasio, Renata; Chiarolanza, Claudia; Boison, Aurora; Costa, Franco

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2015.01.008

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“…This study addresses the question, drawing on social representation theory (SRT) as an overarching framework (Sammut et al 2015;Wagner et al 1999), and extending previous studies conducted in Italy (Passafaro et al 2014;Rimano et al 2015;Sarrica et al 2019) on social representations (SRs) of cycling. In particular, by acknowledging the emphasis that SRT places on societal transformations and communication, we examine whether ebikes have brought about a relevant shift in the SRs of bicycles and cycling conveyed by the press.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Cycling was either for leisure or considered as a means of transport for low-income groups. Research in Italy on the SRs shared by the media and the country's residents showed that the bicycle embodied the dream of sustainable cities of the future rather than a concrete solution to present-day urban problems (Rimano et al 2015). Further studies confirmed that bicycles are still regarded as belonging not to the here and now, but to another place and time, and especially by people with no personal experience of cycling (Sarrica et al 2019).…”

Section: Cultural and Symbolic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Are e-bikes changing the social representation of cycling? An exploration of articles on cycling in Italian online publications

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Rimano

Rizzoli

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Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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Despite policies aimed at increasing bicycle use, and the health benefits identified in the literature, cycling mobility is still quite limited in most cities. A cultural transformation is needed to change this situation. E-bikes might be capable of triggering this change, and turning the proposition of cycling into the preferred choice for everyday mobility. To explore this possibility, the present study extends a previous analysis conducted on the representation of cycling in Italian media, and further investigates its content as regards e-bikes. We identified a textual corpus of 3,239 articles dealing with bicycles published in Italian online publications in 2017 and subjected them to lexicometric analyses. The representation of cycling was found to be stable and only marginally fit the envisaged change in the mobility paradigm. Coverage revolved around a few main themes: infrastructure, mobility, and security and safety. The subcorpus relating to e-bikes (N ¼ 200) showed that the representation of e-bikes added to the dominant representation of cycling without transforming it. Despite their still largely utilitarian and structural contents, the appearance of new perspectives relating to sustainable urban mobility associated with e-bikes introduces novelty in the representation of cycling that deserves to be carefully monitored.

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Are e-bikes changing the social representation of cycling? An exploration of articles on cycling in Italian online publications

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“…Another research was studied in Beijing, where the increasing city size and urban expansion were great challenges to cycling systems [3]. The sustainable awareness from various mass media sources and the general public was studied in Italy and found that some respondents overlap in perceiving of using bike in the city [4]. Although, the sustainable awareness of using bicycle had similar in several cities, there is still need to be further studied in society perceiving of sustainable paper bicycle.…”

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Design and analysis of sustainable paper bicycle

Sahroni

Nasution

2017

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Abstract. This paper presents the design of sustainable paper bicycle which describes the stage by stage in the production of paper bicycle. The objective of this project is to design a sustainable paper bicycles to be used for children under five years old. The design analysis emphasizes in screening method to ensure the design fulfil the safety purposes. The evaluation concept is presented in designing a sustainable paper bicycle to determine highest rating. Project methodology is proposed for developing a sustainable paper bicycle. Design analysis of pedal, front and rear wheel, seat, and handle were presented using AutoCAD software. The design optimization was performed to fulfil the safety factors by modifying the material size and dimension. Based on the design analysis results, it is found that the optimization results met the factor safety. As a result, a sustainable paper bicycle was proposed for children under five years old.

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“…), social media and different user-groups (particularly university students) as enablers is discussed in various articles (e.g. Rose & Marfurt, 2007;Rimano et al, 2015;Gozun & Guillen, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The public discourse is analysed using printed and social media published between 2013 and 2015 for Thailand (40 articles 42 ) and the Philippines (20 articles 1 ) respectively, following e.g. Gössling (2013), who carried out a similar content and discourse analysis for Copenhagen, and Rimano et al (2015), who investigate the mass media image of bicycles by performing a cluster analysis on 'risk and danger', 'sustainable mobility', 'wellness and leisure' for Italy.…”

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Shifting to low-carbon transport in Asean : policy development in a rapidly motorising region

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The modal structure with which the demand is met consists of road, rail, water and air for freight, while for passenger transport a large diversity of modes is distinguished, including car, taxi, motorcycle, tricycle, bus, train, metro, walking, bicycle, boat, airplane, and a variety of modified vehicles used in informal public transport. In developed countries, e.g. the EU, modal shares have been remarkably stable in the past decade (EEA, 2016). In developing regions, due to rapid motorisation, car travel is growing rapidly-both in absolute and relative terms-, often resulting in a decrease in public and non-motorised mode shares (Clean Air Asia, 2012). Private motorisation levels, especially car ownership, is however still substantially below values found in developed countries (OECD/ITF, 2017). per capita income ranging from US$ 1,198 (Cambodia) to US$ 52,744 (Singapore) in 2015-2016 (ASEAN, 2017), urbanisation rates between 21% (Laos) to 100% (Singapore) in 2015 (World Bank, 2016), and open democracies such as Indonesia and the Philippines, to socialist states (Vietnam, Laos), a one-party democracy (Cambodia) and a country under military rule (Thailand). Such differences are also apparent in the Worldwide Governance Indicators (World Bank, 2017), in which for five out of six indicators the countries cover nearly the entire scale, i.e. from less than 10 to over 90. For the three indicators Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality and Rule of Law, Singapore scores over 95, while Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia are roughly between 5 and 30. For Voice and Accountability, the 1.3.2 Sustainable development and transport policy and planning Ever since its conception in the Brundtland report, the term 'sustainable development' has been criticised for its lack of clarity and difficulty to operationalise into concrete policy goals (Litman & Burwell, 2006). However, as an objective for the global community to develop in a fashion that 'meets the need of the present Approaches to transport planning have evolved from facilitating movement of private vehicles ('predict and provide', or demand-driven) to a more balanced set of interventions in which transport demand management (Buchanan, 1963) plays an important role. Such supply-driven approaches and paradigms have been developed using different terms, such as 'manage and predict' (Zuidgeest, 2005), 'the sustainable mobility paradigm' (Banister, 2008), 'accessibility' (OECD/ITF, 2017) and Avoid-Shift-Improve (Dalkmann & Brannigan, 2007). The essence of these more holistic frameworks is that transport policy and planning need to reflect a wide range of goals including access, equity, environment, safety, liveability, energy security, rather than a narrow focus on vehicular movement. For decarbonising the transport sector, changes in, on the one hand, the transport and land-use systems (i.e. the way mobility of people and goods is organised and used) and, on the other hand, vehicle and fuel technologies, are required (OECD/ITF, 2017; PPMC, 2017; Chapman, 2007). These are two ...

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The bicycle and the dream of a sustainable city: An explorative comparison of the image of bicycles in the mass-media and the general public

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

Are e-bikes changing the social representation of cycling? An exploration of articles on cycling in Italian online publications

Are e-bikes changing the social representation of cycling? An exploration of articles on cycling in Italian online publications

Design and analysis of sustainable paper bicycle

Shifting to low-carbon transport in Asean : policy development in a rapidly motorising region

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