Noel Cass
@nofixedclass.bsky.social
Cyclist, camper, walker, environmentalist, academic, punk, anarchist.
My article on e-cargo biking as a social practice is now available open access online - it summarises the particular version of social practice theory I have developed over the years for understanding mobility, illustrated with 'ecb-ing' as a vaild alternative to driving, especially for families.
How do electric cargo bikes fit with real life? A social practice analysis in the United Kingdom
Cycling an e-cargo bike offers key advantages of both car and bike use, and its potential to substitute many car trips offers energy demand reduction …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
My article on e-cargo biking as a social practice is now available open access online - it summarises the particular version of social practice theory I have developed over the years for understanding mobility, illustrated with 'ecb-ing' as a vaild alternative to driving, especially for families.
Our project is featured on this GCN video - please share!
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
Hear from @sirichardson.bsky.social @drianphilips.bsky.social @nofixedclass.bsky.social and our #Leeds participants, below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ0K...
#SustainableTransport #EMicromobility
What Happens When Real People Try e-Cargo Bikes?
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
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September 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Our project is featured on this GCN video - please share!
Reposted by Noel Cass
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
Hear from @sirichardson.bsky.social @drianphilips.bsky.social @nofixedclass.bsky.social and our #Leeds participants, below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ0K...
#SustainableTransport #EMicromobility
What Happens When Real People Try e-Cargo Bikes?
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
www.youtube.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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
Hear from @sirichardson.bsky.social @drianphilips.bsky.social @nofixedclass.bsky.social and our #Leeds participants, below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ0K...
#SustainableTransport #EMicromobility
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-...
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-...
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.
theconversation.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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-...
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).
E-cargo bike access: Total Cost of Ownership, the appeal to second car owners, and leasing | The ELEVATE Project
Blog written by Dr. Noel Cass E-cargo bike access: Total Cost of Ownership, the appeal to second car owners, and leasing ...
blogs.brighton.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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).
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...
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...
ukerc.ac.uk
July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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...
E-cargo bikes – no government support for electric-assist vehicles? | The ELEVATE Project
Written by Dr. Noel Cass On 25th February 2025, the government announced further financial support for EVs – but only if they’re fully motorised. £12...
blogs.brighton.ac.uk
June 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
New blog of mine up on our ELEVATE e-cargo bike project website, feel free to share: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/2025...
Reposted by Noel Cass
📉 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
Headwinds: transport decarbonisation in a storm - Energy Demand Research Centre
tinyurl.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
📉 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.
Investigating Public Views on (Shared) Autonomous Vehicles
UKERC researchers have been exploring public views on Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Using three very different methods,...
ukerc.ac.uk
June 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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.
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!
Don't forget.. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟎𝐚𝐦!! More info on the post below, and to attend please register using this Microsoft form link: forms.office.com/e/FZ8AXCfnS3
May 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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!
Reposted by Noel Cass
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! 🚲
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! 🚲
April 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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! 🚲
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! 🚲
@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...
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
www.cyclingelectric.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@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... 😁🚴♀️
One of our #researchtrial participants was in @cyclinguk.bsky.social mag! 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 #𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐄𝐂𝐁
Read our blog here👇 blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/2025...
Read #CyclingUK mag👇
www.cyclinguk.org/cycle-magazi...
@drianphilips.bsky.social
Read our blog here👇 blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elevate/2025...
Read #CyclingUK mag👇
www.cyclinguk.org/cycle-magazi...
@drianphilips.bsky.social
ELEVATE Trial Participant Featured in Cycling UK Magazine | The ELEVATE Project
We're excited to share that one of our Leeds ELEVATE Trial participants, Naakesha Michl, was featured in the latest issue of Cycling UK Magazine! ...
blogs.brighton.ac.uk
April 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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... 😁🚴♀️
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...
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
x.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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...
Reposted by Noel Cass
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.
We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.
February 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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.
We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.
Reposted by Noel Cass
This feels appropriate for Black Friday.
November 29, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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!
December 9, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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!