E-TOUR - Electric Two-Wheelers On Urban Roads
Overview
Background & policy context:
Motorised traffic is the main source of pollution in most European cities. Especially for passenger transport, a modal-shift towards two-(and three-) wheeled vehicles can be a crucial part of the solution to improve these aspects, because they require less space and use less energy. In this respect, bicycles are of course the best solution for personal transport (apart from walking), since they are absolutely clean and silent, but this means of personal
transport is not widely used all over Europe. Motorised two-wheelers, motorcycles, scooters and mopeds, can provide solutions related to congestion and parking space but not necessarly to environmental problems. In some cases use of these vehicules may cause worse environmental problems than those caused by private cars.
Objectives:
The E-TOUR project has been set up to demonstrate, evaluate and promote the advantages of electric two-wheelers as a substantial contribution to sustainable mobility in urban areas.
Methodology:
The execution of the project has been divided into three phases:
- 1st phase: Preparation of the demonstration, with special focus on defining user needs and comparative assessment of products in the market.
- 2nd phase: Demonstration of about 1.300 electric two-wheelers under completely different cultural circumstances and geographical conditions. During this phase, all applications and intermediate results have been constantly monitored, evaluated and disseminated.
- 3rd phase: Evaluation of final results, with special attention:
- Practical and technical experiences from users, in order to assess the impact of market introduction of electric two-wheelers and additional facilitating features.
- Attainable reduction in energy use and polluting emissions.
- Physiological and bio-mechanical aspects of the physical impact of using an electric bike.
In total more then 1300 electric two-wheelers (almost 700 e-bikes and more then 600 e-scooters) have been introduced and tested in the 10 sites.
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