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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!!!
Research's Introduction
China leads the world in the growth of public bike-sharing (Campbell, Cherry, Ryerson, Yang, 2016). However, on the campus of UBC, a large number of Shared bikes are everywhere, but often students don't use Shared bikes as their first option for moving around campus. According to the UBC website, the vantage program is a program for international students. As China has the world's largest population, Chinese people have become an essential part of the vantage program. The popularize of bike-sharing in China is significantly higher than that in Canada, and we think that Chinese international students offer a different angle of view about factors that lead to shared bikes' popularize. Hence, we decide to interview Chinese students of VANT 149 about the experience of using bikes in Canada and China and analyze what factors affect the usage rate of Shared bikes and give suggestions to improve the development of UBC sustainable transportation.