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Gruber, Johannes and Kihm, Alexander (2015) Reject or embrace? Messengers and electric cargo bikes. The 9th International Conference on City Logistics, June 17-19, 2015, Tenerife, Spain.
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One of many approaches to react to the challenges faced by urban freight can be the introduction of electric cargo bikes as an environmentally friendly mode of transport for courier deliveries. Since this market consists of highly decentralized decision-making structures, it is important to characterize the individuals involved and their perceptions in order to estimate market potentials and identify barriers to market uptake. To achieve this goal, we use information from a nationwide survey to draw a picture of the messengers involved as well as to model a binary decision of innovation rejection. The results indicate a group of people close to the general population but with certain particularities regarding gender, education and work style. Their attitudes towards technology are rather positive but their actual adoption of electric cargo bikes shows a much more heterogeneous pattern based on socio-demographics, job circumstances and personal characteristics.
| Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/97190/ | |||||||||
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| Document Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) | |||||||||
| Title: | Reject or embrace? Messengers and electric cargo bikes | |||||||||
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| Date: | June 2015 | |||||||||
| Refereed publication: | Yes | |||||||||
| Open Access: | Yes | |||||||||
| Gold Open Access: | No | |||||||||
| In SCOPUS: | No | |||||||||
| In ISI Web of Science: | No | |||||||||
| Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Keywords: | courier logistics, electric cargo bikes, technology adoption, binary logit | |||||||||
| Event Title: | The 9th International Conference on City Logistics | |||||||||
| Event Location: | Tenerife, Spain | |||||||||
| Event Type: | international Conference | |||||||||
| Event Dates: | June 17-19, 2015 | |||||||||
| Organizer: | Institute for City Logistics, Kyoto University | |||||||||
| HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | |||||||||
| HGF - Program: | Transport | |||||||||
| HGF - Program Themes: | Transport System | |||||||||
| DLR - Research area: | Transport | |||||||||
| DLR - Program: | V VS - Verkehrssystem | |||||||||
| DLR - Research theme (Project): | V - Verkehrsentwicklung und Umwelt II (old) | |||||||||
| Location: | Berlin-Adlershof | |||||||||
| Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Transport Research > Commercial Transport | |||||||||
| Deposited By: | Gruber, Dipl.-Geogr. Johannes | |||||||||
| Deposited On: | 13 Jan 2016 16:49 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2019 19:54 |
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