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

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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 …
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