Bike sharing beyond the norm
Bike sharing beyond the norm
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共享单车超越常态
DOI:
10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.102492
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
Nixon D
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作者:
Nixon D
Bike ‘sharing’is now most often imagined as either rows of identical, branded,‘safety bicycles’1 waiting in docking stations (that are placed or approved by local governments) sprinkled across cities, or the equally generic dockless bicycles provided by for-profit companies within geofenced, medium/high-density zones of cities. In both varieties, a particular kind of usage and user is designed or ‘scripted’(Akrich, 1992) into the schemes' materiality and business models: use by an able-bodied,(reasonably) fit and skilled individual with a credit/debit card and/or smartphone as well as sufficient financial resources. Although perhaps the most economically efficient, this homogenous tailoring may exclude people who do not fit or cannot fulfil the script, such as those differently abled or from lower income backgrounds. These are also the schemes considered in transport and mobilities journals (Fishman, 2016; Spinney and Lin, 2018).However, we argue that the dominance of the aforementioned varieties of bikeshare is contingent and that other, more inclusive and just modes that ‘common’cycling (Nikolaeva et al., 2019) exist and could proliferate. Commoning is here understood as extending the right to mobility to a wider range of people, catering to heterogenous and spatially differentiated needs, and engaging in communal decision-making (ibid.; Gibson-Graham, 2005). Crucial to this, we suggest, is rethinking what ‘sharing’means and what exactly a ‘bike’is. In this Viewpoint we briefly outline a spectrum of (pre) existing bike sharing systems, and build on emerging criticisms of contemporary credit-based schemes, asking what lessons may be learned from alternative, communal systems of bike sharing and provision. For this, we draw on examples from our research on community-led initiatives to improve cycling in London for which we interviewed 45 leaders, staff/volunteers and beneficiaries of organisations across the city in 2016–2017 (more details in Nixon and Schwanen, 2018; Schwanen and Nixon, 2019). We conclude that the sharing and provision of bicycles can be an economic practice outside the logics of profitability and capitalism (Gibson-Graham, 2005), without restrictions on loaning time frames, and open to a wider range of bodies and individuals.
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DOI:
10.23912/978-1-910158-64-7-3302
发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
T. Schwanen
通讯作者:
T. Schwanen
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
Anna Nikolaeva;P. Adey;T. Cresswell;Jane Yeonjae Lee;André Nóvoa;Cristina Temenos
通讯作者:
Cristina Temenos
影响因子:
3.6
作者:
N. Andrews;I. Clement;R. Aldred
通讯作者:
R. Aldred
影响因子:
5
作者:
Dave. Horton;P. Rosen;P. Cox
通讯作者:
P. Cox
影响因子:
6.1
作者:
Goodman, Anna;Cheshire, James
通讯作者:
Cheshire, James