One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

Hayes, Kevin J.

doi:10.1080/01441647.2011.644347

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“…Benedini, who conducted a study in the Brazilian context, identified that "younger adults" with lower income and education were more interested in using bicycles for transportation [22] Therefore the socio-cultural attitude toward cycling can be considered as a contextspecific factor. Travel speed, safety, and distance are base-level factors that influence travel choice where cyclists are less likely to take bicycle trips for longer distances [23], [24], [25]As opposed to this view, a 2006 Minneapolis study shows that 83% of the time, cyclists will choose a longer route if provided with bike routes and were willing to add 20 minutes onto their trip for cycling. Therefore, depending on the context, the journey purpose and distances could act as motivators or barriers to cycling use [26].…”

Section: Determinants Of Willingness To Bikementioning

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Determinants, Motivators and Barriers for Utilitarian Cycling in Starter Cities: Case of Battaramulla, Sri Lanka

Rodrigo,

De Silva,

Wattage

2024

J. S. Asian Logistics Transport

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In the 1960s, a counter-cultural movement promoting utilitarian bicycle usage emerged in Europe and North America, challenging the dominance of cars, and advocating for sustainable urban mobility. despite the emergence of this movement, many developing cities have low cycling modal share and encounter obstacles in promoting utilitarian cycling. This study delves into workers attitudes toward using bicycles as an alternative mode of transportation. Employing a Binary logistic regression model and incorporating the Relative Importance Index (RII), the research identifies key determinants of utilitarian cycling. The findings highlight significant community willingness (71%) to bike to work, despite perceived barriers. Safety concerns (RII - 0.88) and environmental factors (RII = 0.60), such as rain and heat, emerge as prominent deterrents. Societal perceptions linking cycling to lower social status (vanity) (RII = 0.35), bicycle affordability (RII = 0.35), and work-related factors (RII = 0.48), such as non-cycle-friendly work attire and insufficient office parking safety, play relatively minor roles in discouraging bicycle use. Using the logistic regression model, the study predicts factors influencing the willingness to use bicycles for utilitarian transportation, revealing negative impacts from the absence of cycling infrastructure, motor traffic, rainy weather, and a lack of a cycling community.

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Section: Determinants Of Willingness To Bikementioning

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Determinants, Motivators and Barriers for Utilitarian Cycling in Starter Cities: Case of Battaramulla, Sri Lanka

Rodrigo,

De Silva,

Wattage

2024

J. S. Asian Logistics Transport

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“…Urban cycling as a statistically underperformed practice has been framed as a form of niche resistance to dominant forms of urban mobility (Horton, 2006;Horton et al, 2007;Spinney, 2009Spinney, , 2010Watson, 2012Watson, , 2013. While abundant literature agrees that urban spaces are dominated by automobility (Featherstone et al, 2005;Furness, 2007Furness, , 2010Sheller and Urry, 2000;Urry, 2000Urry, , 2004Urry, , 2007, few studies juxtapose urban cycling and car driving by explicitly analysing the taken-for-granted marginalized position of the former (Fincham, 2006;Latham and Wood, 2015). These studies show that resources are unevenly allocated among transportation practices but have not further conceptualized the allocation mechanism.…”

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How Do Unsustainable Practices Remain Dominant? A Practice Theory Reinterpretation of Gramsci

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Sociological studies of sustainable transformation have highlighted the relevance of ‘unequal’ and ‘uneven’ transformation dynamics. We argue that a practice-based approach provides far more insight into such unequal dynamics than currently recognized. We re-interpret the political concepts of agonism, antagonism and historic bloc that Gramsci used to analyse domination in order to theorize practice constellations and dynamics that are responsible for the perpetuation of unsustainable practices and the suppression of sustainable ones. Based on empirical findings, we also expand his vocabulary by introducing the concept of synergy. Using the example of urban cycling in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, we propose a Gramscian-inspired account of power and domination in practices as a way of understanding inequality in transformation efforts.

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“…Gamification has a considerable impact on food couriers also because cycling is often not seen as 'serious' mobility (Aldred, 2015;Bennett, 2019;Furness, 2010). Since their inception, food delivery platforms have initially taken advantage of the bicycle and its versatile role for both work and play (Popan & Anaya-Boig, 2022).…”

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Cards against gamification: Using a role-playing game to tell alternative futures in the gig economy

Popan

Ojeda

Woodcock

2023

The Sociological Review

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The discussions on the future of work are pulled between technological optimism and the increasing concerns regarding the precarity brought about by the gig economy. Often, these scenarios fail to meaningfully engage and account for the workers’ experiences, whose agency in effectively shaping their working future is denied and obscured behind discourses of autonomy, entrepreneurship and individual responsibility. In the context of the increased use of gamification strategies by platforms to both monitor and incentivise couriers, this article examines the capacity of playful methods to act as effective forms of engagement and mobilisation amongst gig workers. A workshop with this aim was run online in April 2021, at the end of the third Covid lockdown in the UK, using a role-playing card game with food couriers in Manchester. It drew on ethnographic data to explore how to support empathy and solidarity amongst couriers, how to facilitate the creation of a shared pool of knowledge about the job and how to reconfigure other stakeholders’ roles to improve working conditions. We finally offer some ideas to take the game beyond the workshop space suggesting several pathways for the future: a face-to-face game using printed cards, an open-source version of the game and collaborating with trade unions to reach more couriers.

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One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

Cited by 9 publications

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Determinants, Motivators and Barriers for Utilitarian Cycling in Starter Cities: Case of Battaramulla, Sri Lanka

Determinants, Motivators and Barriers for Utilitarian Cycling in Starter Cities: Case of Battaramulla, Sri Lanka

How Do Unsustainable Practices Remain Dominant? A Practice Theory Reinterpretation of Gramsci

Cards against gamification: Using a role-playing game to tell alternative futures in the gig economy

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