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Giulio Mattioli
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Transport researcher with views on + than 1 topic - EU / Italian citizen with views on + than 1 country. Used to be in the UK. Now in Germany at TU Dortmund. Views my own https://t.co/ltfHVOHZe4

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 21d
We have published a new paper and it's one I'm really happy with. A collaboration with Janina Welsch of ILS Dortmund. rdcu.be/eS96s

We look at the relationship between migration background / ethnicity and travel behaviour, using UK data.

THREAD on the findings

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 3d
Yes I think that could be an implication.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 6d
Very interesting-looking new study on how carmakers in the US, Germany and Japan have fought the transition to electric vehicles through the decades doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.bsky.social · 8d
@giuliomattioli.bsky.social:
"This is an under-discussed aspect of the EV transition. Why on earth would an oil-less country like Germany be so keen on sticking to the internal combustion engine?"
🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
#alwaysbecharging ⚡️⚡️⚡️
nitter.net/giulio_matti...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 9d
🇪🇺 EU: We are watering down the 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars

🇨🇳 China: Thanks very much

#electriccars
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
EU plans to water down ban on new petrol and diesel cars
Commission proposes cutting obligation for 100% zero emission vehicles beyond 2035 to 90% after pressure from industry and some EU states
www.theguardian.com

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 10d
This looks like a much-needed Comment article by Milad. nature.com/articles/s44...

I often say jokingly that I'm an "EV Centrist"

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 10d
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
Homeland security twitter screenshot - “all America wants for Christmas is remigration”

Reposted by Giulio Mattioli

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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 10d
Lime and Forest are on their "last warning" if they don't fix "persistent problems" with rider behaviour and dangerous parking.
Council demands “urgent action” from Lime and Forest hire bike operators to “fix persistent problems”
Islington Council has threatened that e-bike hire companies Lime and Forest are on their “last warning” and face losing permission to operate in the borough unless they deal with the dangerous parking...
road.cc

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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · 14d
Of course the other thing that happened in the 1970s, which this article is too polite to mention, is that hunting otters with dogs (what fun!) was made illegal.

No doubt some grifter at the Telegraph bemoaned the passing of a Great Country Custom at the time.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hightailing along city streets and raiding ponds: otters’ revival in Britain
Still rare only 20 years ago, the charismatic animals are in almost every UK river and a conservation success story
www.theguardian.com

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
Which brings us back to motonormativity ;)

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
Ahhh interesting no I wasn't aware of that. One way of interpreting our findings is that cycling seems to be a lot more loaded with "culture", "identity" (whether ethnic or otherwise) and socialisation than cars and buses.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
Thank you Ian! It's a great dataset

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
Yes one of the interesting findings is that cycling seems to be more culturally / ethnically "loaded" than car use.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
Yes that's one of the main vehicles of "transport assimilation" - migrants in the first few years are a lot less likely to own cars.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
Previous literature had also found evidence of "ethnic neighbourhood effects" whereby, say, someone from an ethnic minority group would use the car even less when living in a neighbourhood where many people from the same ethnicity live.

We find little evidence of this in England.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
We try & interpret these differences based on what we know from the existing literature on cultural attitudes & socialisation, but also discrimination processes.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
But some differences remain:

- Non-British White respondents tend to cycle the most

- Black and (particularly) Asian respondents tend to cycle the least

- Black respondents tend to use the bus the most

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
Many of these differences in travel behaviour between ethnic groups are actually due to socio-economic differences and them living in areas that are more conducive to cycling and public transport use. So they tend to disappear when controlling for that.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
However (and even after this "assimilation" period), people from ethnic minorities keep travelling differently to some extent. In order words, the ethnicity effect is more long-lasting than the migration effect (as we are able to disentangle the two).

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20d
We find evidence of a "transport assimilation" effect whereby migrants travel very differently from locals in the first 5/10 years after arrival (more bus use, less car and bicycle), but then "normalise" over time.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 21d
We find that migrants and ethnic minority groups in England travel very differently than the average of the population.

But once you control for their socio-economic characteristics and for the area in which they live, most differences disappear.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 21d
Thanks to this data we can answer questions such as:

- do migrants drive less simply because of their particular socio-economic characteristics?

- do ethnic minorities cycle more simply because they tend to live in more "cyclable" places?

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 21d
We looked into this using the UK @usociety.bsky.social dataset. It includes rich information on migration background, oversamples the main ethnic minorities, and allows us include information on accessibility by different modes & share of people by ethnicity in the neighbourhood.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 21d
There's a few studies on the travel behaviour of migrants / ethnic minority groups - see this review paper doi.org/10.1080/0144...

They often find that they use cars less, but the mechanisms behind it are not so clear

There are also few studies from Europe
What do we know about immigrants’ travel behaviour? A systematic literature review and proposed conceptual framework
Immigrants make up a significant population in many countries; in some countries as many as 30% of the population was born overseas. An increasing number of studies have found that immigrants are l...
doi.org

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 21d
Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 21d
"Support for cycling infrastructure and traffic restrictions [but] particularly opposed the removal of car parking... Cyclists and drivers favoured segregated cycling infrastructure"

New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Traffic restrictions and the construction of cycling infrastructure are effective strategies to reduce private car use and promote active travel in urban areas. However, implementing these measures often involves reallocating existing street space, which can lead to public resistance. This study employed a Best-Worst-Scaling (BWS) profile case approach to examine preferences for different types of street space reallocation to encourage cycling and to explore how these preferences are influenced by psychological factors such as driver and cyclist identities, perceived infringement on freedom, and place attachment. A Britain-based sample of participants (N = 509) evaluated images depicting various configurations of bike lanes, traffic restrictions, and cycle parking, where road or pedestrian space was reallocated to accommodate cycling infrastructure. Participants identified the most and least preferred features of these designs. The findings indicate broad public support for cycling infrastructure and traffic restrictions, although preferences varied significantly across street layouts. Participants particularly opposed the removal of car parking and showed a strong preference for reallocating road space rather than pedestrian space. Both cyclists and drivers favoured segregated cycling infrastructure over painted bike lanes on roads. While place attachment had limited impact on preferences, perceptions of cycling infrastructure as infringing on individual freedom emerged as a significant factor shaping space reallocation preferences. These findings offer insights for policymakers and urban planners, highlighting design strategies that may be more publicly acceptable and identifying areas where resistance to urban redesigns is likely to emerge.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 24d
Great example of motonormativity
rosiemund.bsky.social Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 24d
I think another weird facet to this is if you say "I was driving today & there are so many terrible, dangerous drivers," people tend to be like "ugh, I know" but if you say "I was cycling today & there are so many terrible, dangerous drivers," they furiously disagree & imply it was your own fault.
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Nov 25
Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is how when a driver does something wrong, the public and media don't smear all drivers as reckless assholes. But when a cyclist — and especially an e-biker — does something wrong, all bicyclists get attacked and blamed.

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 24d
I think another weird facet to this is if you say "I was driving today & there are so many terrible, dangerous drivers," people tend to be like "ugh, I know" but if you say "I was cycling today & there are so many terrible, dangerous drivers," they furiously disagree & imply it was your own fault.
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Nov 25
Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is how when a driver does something wrong, the public and media don't smear all drivers as reckless assholes. But when a cyclist — and especially an e-biker — does something wrong, all bicyclists get attacked and blamed.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 27d
Transport and energy researchers, for years: "Please for the love of all that is holy, do NOT incentivize plug-in hybrids"

The German government: "How about we incentivize plug-in hybrids again?"