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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

Shared E-Scooter Practices in Birmingham, Alabama: Analyzing Usage, Patterns, and Determinants

open access: yesFuture Transportation
Shared micromobility has gained significant attention in the field of transportation engineering in recent years as an environmentally friendly, convenient, and easily accessible transportation mode.
Mithila Hasan, Virginia P. Sisiopiku
doaj   +1 more source

Radar-based Road User Classification and Novelty Detection with Recurrent Neural Network Ensembles

open access: yes, 2019
Radar-based road user classification is an important yet still challenging task towards autonomous driving applications. The resolution of conventional automotive radar sensors results in a sparse data representation which is tough to recover by ...
Appenrodt, Nils   +3 more
core   +1 more source

PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Influencing Sustained Use of Shared E-Scooter Services in Urban Taiwan

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb)
This study investigates the factors that drive users to sustain their usage of shared electric scooter (e-scooter) services in Taiwan, distinguishing itself from the conventional focus on predicting consumers’ initial adoption and behavioural intentions.
Fei-Hui HUANG
doaj   +1 more source

The Cowl - v.83 - n.10 - Nov 15, 2018 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 83 - No. 10 - November 15, 2018.

core   +1 more source

Impact of Banning a Rideshare E‐Scooter Programme on Emergency Department Presentations in Perth: A Natural Experiment

open access: yesANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background E‐scooters have become a popular, low‐cost mode of urban transport worldwide, with rideshare programmes increasing public access. However, safety concerns are growing, with many studies describing injury patterns and healthcare burden. This study evaluated the impact of the suspension of rideshare e‐scooters on emergency department (
Joshua Briotti   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expectations, impacts, and contradictions of e-scooters from a social exclusion perspective: Reflections from London's rental trial

open access: yesJournal of Cycling and Micromobility Research
There are few attempts at introducing new personal transport technologies have made as much noise as the relatively recent appearance of electric scooters (e-scooters) in cities as an on-demand shared mobility service supported by digital platforms.
Daniel Oviedo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of E-Scooter Media Coverage

open access: yesFindings, 2022
This study examines the attitudes and common themes of 840 e-scooter news articles from across the US, published between 2017 to 2020. Sentiment analysis suggests that media coverage does not appear to be predominantly in favor or against shared e ...
Or Caspi, Michael J Smart
doaj   +1 more source

How and Where Should I Ride This Thing? “Rules Of The Road” for Personal Transportation Devices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In recent years, “Personal Transportation Devices” (PTDs) have exploded onto streets and sidewalks. These small devices transport individual persons at slow speeds and are either human-powered or motorized.
Agrawal, Asha Weinstein   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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