期刊
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE
卷 78, 期 -, 页码 371-383出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2015.05.022
关键词
Electric bicycles; China; Beijing; Socio-technical change; Transport policy; New energy vehicles
资金
- Economic and Social Research Council [not_applicable] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [not_applicable] Funding Source: UKRI
This paper describes and seeks to understand the scale of the electric bicycle (electric two-wheeler) market in China, and to begin to explain its emergence with a view to outlining the prospects for learning from this case for applications in other countries around the world. Drawing on secondary data from Chinese government sources, electric bicycle industry websites, Chinese media sites and other sources, this exploratory paper positions the development of the electric bicycle market as occurring largely in the absence of positive policy intervention in stark contrast to the nurturing afforded the electric car sector world-wide. The paper develops a multi-scalar perspective of transitions theory in an institutional setting, with examples drawn from Beijing and Fuzhou, to explain the processes of change outside of the traditional reference context of technology policy and management. It is concluded that transitions theory has a greater flexibility and adaptability as an explanatory framework than previously shown, but empirically the electric two-wheeler is a weakly-embedded alternative to mainstream automobility. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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