Webinar
E-bikes are growing in popularity in cities, especially as they become more affordable and accessible with the support of financial incentives and bikeshare programs. E-bikes can substitute for high-polluting, high-speed cars and two-wheelers, covering longer-distance trips with less effort compared to conventional bicycles. At the same time, safety concerns and standards for e-bikes need to be considered.
ITDP’s new report, E-bikes: Charging Toward Compact Cycling Cities, provides the first global overview of how e-bikes are being used and their potential for passenger and freight transport. It also evaluates barriers that limit e-bike use in different contexts, and what cities and national governments can do to ramp up access to and use of e-bikes to achieve broader sustainable transport goals.
In this webinar, we will dive into these concepts with an overview of the report and its recommendations, and hear about the potential for e-bikes in Kenya and Indonesia.
Dana’s (she/her/hers pronouns) work at ITDP includes research and analysis of trends in sustainable transportation focused primarily on cycling, bikeshare, and other forms of shared mobility. She has led the development of key ITDP publications including the 2018 Bikeshare Planning Guide, and several policy briefs including Optimizing Dockless Bikeshare for Cities and Ride Fair: A Policy Framework for Managing Transportation Network Companies. Dana is passionate about identifying connections between the social, economic, and environmental spheres of sustainable development, with a particular interest in providing guidance to cities to strengthen transportation networks, leverage emerging technology and innovations, and improve overall accessibility. Prior to joining ITDP in 2017, Dana worked for the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development in Chicago, and for Resources for the Future, an environmental economics think tank in Washington, DC. She holds an MA in Sustainable Urban Development from DePaul University.
Deliani Siregar, who goes by Anggi, is an urban planner with a bachelors degree in Engineering and Urban and Regional Planning from Gadjah Mada University. She is an urban enthusiast who has a strong passion for mobility and transportation affairs. Anggi is responsible for the project coordination and field supervision of Jakarta’s non-motorized transportation (NMT) vision and design implementation until 2022. In the past, Anggi has contributed to many different projects and built her expertise by providing TOD, NMT, and BRT plans and assessments for local sustainable mobility planners, reducing transport emissions in Indonesian cities, contributing to BRT cost estimation planning for the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and providing alternative designs to support great walking and cycling environments throughout Jakarta.
In her spare time, Anggi loves to write. She is an author and has already published two books for kids and collaborated on several other fiction books. She is also a radio announcer and program director. Anggi joined the ITDP Indonesia staff in 2015.
Before joining ITDP, Christine Nyakona worked as an independent consultant with SHEATIF CONSULTANT, where she worked on different assignments including transport modelling, road attribute coding, and analysis and reporting for road safety. Her previous work experience include working as an assistant highway engineer with H.P. Gauff Ingenieure GmbH & Co. KG – JBG, Addis Ababa, and as a project engineer and a project coordinator with KKATT Consult, Kampala.
Christine holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, from Makerere University and a master’s degree in Railway Engineering (civil infrastructure-major) from Addis Ababa University. Christine’s interest for the future includes sustainable transport systems, road safety and civil infrastructure planning and management.