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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 · Dec 5
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 · 4d
Very interesting-looking new study assessing the affordability of EVs and how subsidies would impact that doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you, I couldn't find the handle somehow 🙈

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4d
The lead author is on Bluesky actually, apologies for not tagging! @jaimesierra.bsky.social

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 4d
Very interesting new empirical study by Jaime Sierra Munoz & colleagues on car dependence in Lombardy (Italy).

While most studies to date have tried to map car dependence as a continuous property, they identify multidimensional clusters of it doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Reposted by Axel Bruns, Thomas Backhaus, Simon Otjes , and 12 more

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 8d
I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.

The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)

Reposted by Gernot Wagner, W. Andy Knight, Giulio Mattioli

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 9d
BREAKING: Tesla loses its crown as the world's bestselling electric vehicle maker to Chinese rival BYD as sales fall for a second year in a row.
Tesla loses title as world's biggest electric vehicle maker as sales fall for second year in a row
Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 12d
Thank you Larry! I don't know, I don't think so.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 13d
Thank you Soren! And yes very different kinds of dependency, for this one perhaps we can stop the process before it's too locked in - that's the intention behind me using the same term.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 14d
My presentation at this seminar series is now available online at euroreg.uw.edu.pl/dane/web_eur...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 14d
Interesting-looking new study by Dawid Krysinski & colleagues on how experiencing the negative sides of car dependence can lead people to support car use restrictions doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Reposted by Giulio Mattioli

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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 17d
The threat to German auto producers isn't from Chinese cars flooding Germany. It's from Chinese cars flooding to emerging markets (red), where they're killing the market for German cars. That's not something EU tariffs on China are going to be able to fix...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/chinas-inv...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 19d
Yes I think that could be an implication.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 23d
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…

Reposted by Reece Jones, Guntram B. Wolff, Richard S.J. Tol , and 59 more

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 23d
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...

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Giulio Mattioli

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.bsky.social · 24d
@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?"
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#alwaysbecharging ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 26d
🇪🇺 EU: We are watering down the 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars

🇨🇳 China: Thanks very much

#electriccars
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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
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 26d
This looks like a much-needed Comment article by Milad. nature.com/articles/s44...

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

Reposted by Samantha Brennan, Giulio Mattioli

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 26d
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 · 26d
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...
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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · Dec 12
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
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 5
Which brings us back to motonormativity ;)

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 5
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 · Dec 5
Thank you Ian! It's a great dataset

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · Dec 5
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 · Dec 5
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 · Dec 5
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 · Dec 5
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 · Dec 5
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 · Dec 5
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 · Dec 5
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).