Electric Bicycles and Public Transport Tickets: Ownership and Car Use Patterns
| dc.contributor.author | Hoenow, Christian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Helmers, Viola | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yang, Eva | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-11T12:20:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-11T12:20:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Riding electric bicycles and using public transport are popular alternatives to private car use. Utilizing data from a 2022 survey of 6,285 participants in Germany, we examine who typically owns e-bikes or public transport tickets. We firstly employ regression analyses to identify correlations between individual characteristics and e-bike as well as ticket ownership, respectively. We find that e-bike owners tend to be older, earn higher incomes, and often reside in more rural areas. For public transport ticket ownership, these associations are largely reversed. Through latent class analyses, we identify distinct groups of e-bike and ticket owners. In a second step, we investigate associations between e-bike or ticket ownership and several car use measures through propensity score matching and regression analyses. We find that, compared to non-owners, owners of either alternative exhibit lower car use, with the difference being larger for public transport ticket owners. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2003/43836 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-25610 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | TRR 391 Working Paper; 7 | |
| dc.subject | e-bike (electric bicycle) | en |
| dc.subject | public transport | en |
| dc.subject | travel mode choice | en |
| dc.subject | car use | en |
| dc.subject | latent class analysis | en |
| dc.subject | propensity score matching | en |
| dc.subject.ddc | 310 | |
| dc.title | Electric Bicycles and Public Transport Tickets: Ownership and Car Use Patterns | en |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.publicationtype | WorkingPaper | |
| dcterms.accessRights | open access | |
| eldorado.dnb.deposit | true | |
| eldorado.secondarypublication | true | |
| eldorado.secondarypublication.primarycitation | Hoenow, Nils Christian and Helmers, Viola and Yang, Eva, Electric Bicycles and Public Transport Tickets: Ownership and Car Use Patterns (December 17, 2024). USAEE Working Paper No. 25-637, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5110626 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5110626 | |
| eldorado.secondarypublication.primaryidentifier | https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5110626 |