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Civil society-led shared mobility for transport equity? An empirical analysis from Berlin

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This study explores the potential of community-led shared mobility to achieve equitable transport, using a socially innovative cargo bike-sharing system in Berlin as a case study.
Michael Bissel, Anke Kläver
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Who Knows, Cares and Acts for Sustainability in Times of Uncertainty? Demographic Differences in Perceived Knowledge, Concerns, and Pro‐Environmental Behaviors

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2026, some years after the Covid‐19 pandemic and the related economic crisis, the global landscape remains profoundly unsettled. Geopolitical conflicts, such as the war between Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts, continue to drive instability, reshaping global priorities and challenges.
Rosa Maria Dangelico, Serena Filippelli, Luca Fraccascia, Andrea Viggiani   +3 more
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Harnessing the Folding of Antitumor Peptides for Controlled Carrier‐Free Drug Delivery

Small, EarlyView.
A disulfide‐bridged stapled p53 α‐helix co‐assembled with doxorubicin into protease‐resistant nanocomplexes. Reductive intracellular conditions induced helix refolding and nanostructure disassembly, which enabled the coordinated release of the chemotherapeutic agent and anticancer peptide.
Jae Yun Lee, Moo Chang Park, Sung Chan Choi, Jieun Kim, Joo‐young Kim, Jiah Lee, Hyun Jin Kim, Kyobum Kim, Yongju Kim, Woo‐jin Jeong   +9 more
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From cars to bikes – the feasibility and effect of using e-bikes, longtail bikes and traditional bikes for transportation among parents of children attending kindergarten: design of a randomized cross-over trial

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background The present study aims to increase bicycling and level of physical activity (PA), and thereby promote health in parents of toddlers, by giving access to different bicycle types.
Helga Birgit Bjørnarå, Sveinung Berntsen, Saskia J. te Velde, Liv Fegran, Aslak Fyhri, Benedicte Deforche, Lars Bo Andersen, Elling Bere   +7 more
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Assesment of the potential of cargo bikes and electrification for last-mile parcel delivery by means of simulation of urban freight flows

European Transport Research Review, 2021
Background The paper presents a simulation model for freight. In the paper, this model is applied to understand the impacts of electric vans and cargo bikes for the last-mile delivery of parcels.
Carlos Llorca, Rolf Moeckel
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy, Jennifer Blake, Meghna Nair, Pamela Stephens   +3 more
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Attitudinal profiles of potential shared cargo bike users in Budapest

European Transport Research Review
Shared cargo bike systems offer a practical and promising alternative for short-distance urban trips, especially where cars dominate last-mile delivery and household travel.
Ognjen Bobičić, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss   +1 more
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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris, Chryssanthi Petropoulou, Mara Zacharaki   +2 more
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‘We’re trying to reimagine this gig economy as a force for good’: Problematising labour processes in cargo bike logistics

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
Cargo bike deliveries have gained popularity, promoted as a ‘more sustainable’ alternative to van deliveries. Many cargo bike delivery companies, and businesses that use them, position themselves as ethical employers seeking to improve working conditions
Ersilia Verlinghieri, Charlie Couve, Tiffany Lam, Rachel Aldred   +3 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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