Course:VANT149/2020/Capstone/Arts/Team24
Biographies:
Spotlights here! Who are we?
Bowen Wang
Bowen Wang, a bachelor student at UBC Vantage College. He is interested in history, fashion designs and Japanese culture. His goal is to be a professor at UBC who has two Ph.D. degrees in Economics and History faculty. This time, he is in a study that focuses on sustainable transportation's popularization with three other group mates. In the research group, sometimes he is the leader who leads peers to work hard, sometimes he is a quiet worker who focuses on work.
As is observed in the picture, this is the way he wants to be cool but not cool enough.
Meiling Zhong(Krysia)
Krysia, a Chinese student in UBC Vantage. She is interested in video editing, beauty makeup and cooking. Due to concerns about transportation and environmental sustainability, she’s group will research sustainable transportation's popularization. During the group work, she always face problems with a positive and optimistic attitude and timely communication with group members. With the implementation of bike-sharing, it can not only relieve the increasingly serious traffic pressure and facilitate people's travel, but also effectively reduce air pollution. Therefore, she decides to choose this theme to effectively promote contribution bikes on UBC campus.
Catherina Cui
Catherina, a Chinese student in Vantage college. She is interested in media, dancing, singing, and playing video games. She hopes she could have opportunities to study in media in the future. Now she is in VANT 149 and studying about sustainable transportation popularization with the other three members in her group. In the group, she is a very serious and responsible person who helps the whole group to finish the homework on time every time. For the main focus of the group research, she chooses sharing bikes because she used to experience this in China.
Tina Bian
This is Tina, a Chinese student at UBC Vantage. She is interested in cooking, skateboarding and painting. Her current goal is to graduate from UBC successfully. In VANT149 's group project, she chose to study sustainable transportation’s popularization, with shared bikes as her main research target. The reason why she chose shared bikes is that when she is in her hometown, she likes to use them whenever she is not far away because it is convenient and environmentally friendly. Therefore, the popularity of sustainable transportation has become a topic she wants to study in order to better realize the concept of environmental protection and sustainable development.
Oops, we even don't have a group leader but who cares lol. We are all gears for research to run, and who cares if each other is made of gold or iron? We can spin, that's enough!!!
Academic Abstract
Sustainable transportation's popularization
In the three existing literatures, the closed relationship is we get a lot of ideas to improve transportation on the basis of sustainability. They are the reduction of vehicle emissions and environmental protection (Cohen, Higham, 2011), the problem of traffic congestion (Mao and Chen, 2001), the benefits of bicycles and the emergence of Shared bikes (Béland, 2014). And shared bikes are also a kind of transportations that most of Chinese international students know. Therefore, our research question is what are the experiences of VANT 149 students with bike sharing in China vs. on campus at UBC. The purpose of this study is to improve the use of UBC Shared bikes, thus effectively alleviating campus traffic congestion and reducing emissions to achieve sustainable transportation.
Our research team adopted the online semi-structured qualitative interview as our research method through Zoom conference. After the interview, we recorded the content of the interview and conducted qualitative data analysis. We interviewed 8-10 Vantage students from China or Those in China who have used Shared bikes, and transcribed the interview records. Our interview research included a total of 10 men and women, and our specific data were obtained through the statistics and classification of their interview results. In categorizing the data, we first divided the feedback into positive and negative. After the significant classification, subdivide, and the frequency of keyword occurrence statistics. Finally, we found that, compared with Shared bikes in China, the main reasons affecting the usage rate of Shared bikes in UBC campus were the number of Shared bikes (10 people agreed), maintenance issues (5 people agreed), price issues (4 people agreed), and the app system, which was difficult for Vantage students to understand. (3 people agreed) At the end of the interview, all participants all indicated that if UBC optimized campus Shared bikes, they would be more willing to use Shared bikes than other non-sustainable transportation means. From an academic point of view, our study can be used as a case for other researchers. For relative future studies, I suggest to include more issues such as cultures, economics etc.
keywords: shared bike, transportation, sustainability.
References
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2. Campbell, A. A., Cherry, C. R., Ryerson, M. S., & Yang, X. (2016). Factors influencing the choice of shared bicycles and shared electric bikes in Beijing. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 67, 399–414. doi: 10.1016/j.trc.2016.03.004
3. Cohen, S. A., & Higham, J. E. (2011). Eyes wide shut? UK consumer perceptions on aviation climate impacts and travel decisions to New Zealand. Current Issues in Tourism, 14(4), 323–335. doi: 10.1080/13683501003653387
4. Mao, B., & Chen, H. (2001). Sustainability analysis of Chinese transport policy. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 8(4), 323–336. doi: 10.1080/13504500109470090
5. Si, H., Shi, J.-G., Tang, D., Wu, G., & Lan, J. (2020). Understanding intention and behavior toward sustainable usage of bike sharing by extending the theory of planned behavior. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 152, 104513. doi: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104513
6. Zhang, Y., Thomas, T., Brussel, M. J. G., & M. F. A. M. Van Maarseveen. (2016). Expanding Bicycle-Sharing Systems: Lessons Learnt from an Analysis of Usage. Plos One, 11(12). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168604