Noel Cass

Our project is featured on this GCN video - please share!

YouTube video by Global Cycling Network What Happens When Real People Try e-Cargo Bikes?

The Global Cycling Network's recent video featured our ELEVATE participants and research!

Hear from @sirichardson.bsky.social @drianphilips.bsky.social @nofixedclass.bsky.social and our #Leeds participants, below!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ0K...

#SustainableTransport #EMicromobility

Subsidising e-bikes instead of cars could really kick the electric vehicle transition into high gear Electric car discounts are too meagre to help the low-paid and car-dependent.

My Conversation article from the Elevate project has just been published.

The title speaks for itself!

The article follows from our stakeholder workshops on financial access to (e-)(cargo)bikes, reported here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/rese...

Article: theconversation.com/subsidising-...

I wrote this pre our national workshops on Financial Access to E-(cargo) bikes, thinking about Total Cost of Ownership vs cars, the second car as a particular target for replacement with such bikes, and the potential appeal of the leasing model of ownership (which is so addictive for car ownership).

Public Views on Connected Autonomous Vehicles A Multi-Method Study: Qualitative Activities Report This working paper reveals that the priorities of people around autonomous vehicles differ from those of policy-makers...

A Working Paper I just published through UKERC. 40,000 words! But you can read the Executive summaries... Public views on AVs - deliberations and multi-criteria decision analyses... ukerc.ac.uk/publications...

New blog of mine up on our ELEVATE e-cargo bike project website, feel free to share: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/2025...

Headwinds: transport decarbonisation in a storm - Energy Demand Research Centre

📉 Transport emissions are off track. In a new report, Prof @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social breaks down the Spending Review, showing why current plans fall short of the CCC’s 2042 net zero goals, and why travel demand reduction must be part of the solution: tinyurl.com/3wanehnp

Investigating Public Views on (Shared) Autonomous Vehicles - my blog about this project has been published by UKERC! Off to Dublin next week (by train and hydrofoil ferry) to present this research at the University Transport Study Group annual conference.

Appalling.

Our workshops on e-(cargo)bike access are imminenet, but still time to register. Please forward to anyone interested in e-bikes, e-cargo bikes, and getting access to them!

Black background with teal and white text. Large title at the top: "E-(Cargo) Bikes: Finance & Access Workshops" (teal, bold text). Below, in a teal rectangular outline box: White text reads: "The ELEVATE research project is hosting two online workshops to explore the following", followed by a bulleted list in white text: Does simply increasing access to cycles increase cycling? Is affordability a ‘real’ barrier to (optimal) cycle ownership? Are financial incentives effective in encouraging cycling? Are leasing schemes popular and financially viable? What is the scope for increasing bike share schemes? What are the policy priorities for local and central Government? Below the box, two sections side by side: Left side: An icon of a calendar with "MAY" in teal at the top and "14th" inside. Next to it: "Online Workshop 1 10.00-11.30am:" (bold text), "Stakeholder Presentations on Current Evidence & Existing Schemes" (normal text). Right side: A second calendar icon, same style, with "MAY" and "21st" inside. Next to it: "Online Workshop 2 10.00-11.30am:" (bold text), "Discussion on Policy Priorities and Pathways to Impact" (normal text). The overall style is clean, professional, and minimalistic with teal accents.

ELEVATE is holding #online #workshops on #ebikes & #ecargobikes, focused on finance & access to these types of #emicromobility

Flier below for more info & register your interest in attending with this form: forms.office.com/e/FZ8AXCfnS3

Feel free to share with anyone interested! 🚲

Cheers! Just seen it now, compiled by the Director of IPPR who I have been chatting to!

Electric bike regulations of the future defined by European trade body A European trade body based in Germany but with influence across the continent has today set out what it believes

@micromobility-its.bsky.social - a heads' up that the (European) e-(cargo)bike regulations of the future are being trailled right now... includes a suggestion that e-cargo bikes might be split over 3 classes? www.cyclingelectric.com/news/electri...

One of our Leeds participant households enjoyed their e-cargo bikes so much, they now have 3, and are promoting the benefits in the national Cycling magazine! Proud researcher moment... 😁🚴‍♀️

James Surowiecki on X: "This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers. To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR https://t.co/g75FreEPbv" / X This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers. To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR https://t.co/g75FreEPbv

The USA are (predictably) using high school, back of the envelope economics to slap taxes on everyone and crash their own economy. The incompetence knows no bounds... x.com/JamesSurowie...

Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X - Research Professional News Leeds says Elon Musk’s social media site “no longer aligns with our university values”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol.
We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

My employer, Leeds University, has just announced a mass exit from X in two days time. Happy to join them.

This feels appropriate for Black Friday.

What's a good introduction to a new social space? This has got my best friend, cycling, tents, and pirates. A pretty good first impression!