Investigating the Factors Related to the Registration of Electric Bicycle Licenses in China

This study investigated the individual characteristics, household characteristics and travel information factors contributing to the registration of electric bicycle license in China. An online survey was conducted on March and April, 2014 and 896 persons who used electric bikes completed the survey. Among them, 30.58% of respondents have registered the electric bike license while 69.42% of them did not complete the registration. A binary logit (BL) model was estimated in the study to evaluate the impacts of various factors on the registration of electric bicycle license. The results showed that several contributing factors were found to have a significant impact, including gender, age group, education level, automobile license, electric bike ownership in household, car ownership in household, average household income, and frequency of travel by electric bike. A multinomial logit (MNL) model was estimated to examine the reasons for not registering the license among various electric bike users. The results of this study can help better understand the behaviors of registration of electric bicycle license by electric bike users in China. Policies can be made to promote the proportions of registration of electric bike license.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries. Alternate title: Investigating Factors Related to Registration of Electric Bicycle Licenses in China.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Wu, Yao
  • Guo, Yanyong
  • Li, Zhibin
  • Chen, Kuanmin
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
• Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Bicycles; Compliance; Cyclists; Demographics; Electric vehicles; Licenses; Licensing; Policy making; Registration
• Geographic Terms: China
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01556991
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-5374
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 16 2015 11:35AM