Research Article
Usage Patterns of Electric Bicycles: An Analysis of the WeBike Project
Table 1
Summary of previous e-bike field studies.
| Reference | Purpose | Location | Participants | Duration | Data collected |
| Kiefer and Behrendt [17] | Usage | Brighton, UK | 30 bikes/93 riders | 10 months | GPS, assistance level, accelerometer | Fyhri and Fearnley [18] | Usage | Norway | 66 | 2–4 weeks | Odometer | Paefgen and Michahelles [19] | Usage | Switzerland | 17 | 4 months | GPS | MacArthur et al. [23] | Usage | Portland, OR, USA | 30 bikes | 1.5 years | Participant surveys | Dozza et al. [24] | Safety | Gothenburg, SE | 3 bikes/12 riders | 2 weeks | Video, GPS, braking force, lateral movement | Langford et al. [25] | Safety | Knoxville, TN, USA | 12 bikes | 2 years | GPS | Schleinitz et al. [26] | Speed | Germany | 85 | 4 weeks | Video, speedometer | Fluchter and Wortmann [20] | IoT issues | Switzerland | 32 bikes | 4 months | GPS |
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