Analysis of factors influencing mode shift to public transit in a developing country

Devika, R; M, Harikrishna

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/491/1/012054

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“…Accordingly, the questionnaire consists of four major components, reflecting respondents’ socio-economic status (Liu et al, 2017; Plötz et al, 2014), existing travel preferences (Devika and Harikrishna, 2020; Dijst et al, 2002; Nordfjærn et al, 2019), attitudes towards the potential launch of shared electric bikes in the city (Lewis et al, 2015), and subjective comments on the potential launch. The selection of these components aligns with the prior literature review and aims to corroborate previous findings across diverse research contexts and study sites.…”

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Towards niche market for shared mobility: Identifying heterogeneity of potential early adopters to use shared electric bikes in a Chinese mega city

Wu¹,

Lei²,

Zhou

et al. 2023

Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology

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Shared mobility endures the pandemic, legislative upheaval, and points to a sizable potential market with wider range of shared services. As the shared mobility segment worldwide continually increases, a noticeable trend towards segmentation of shared mobility services, namely, the niche market, is gaining attention. However, the majority of scholarship has mainly focused on early adopters’ transition from conventional transportation modes to shared mobility, with little attention given to the shift towards specialized and niche shared mobility services. To address such gap, this study aims to explore the heterogeneous characteristics of potential early adopters of shared electric bikes among different transportation groups in the existing market. The questionnaire targets 1034 citizens living in Shenzhen, a mega city in China, from March to April in 2020, before the official launch of the shared electric bikes scheme in the city. Both binary logistic models and text sentiment analysis have been conducted to present a comprehensive analytical framework to understand the group-sensitive identification of potential early adopters. Results reveal that age, car ownership, commute time, and confidence level on the potential scheme are four significant variables to explain all respondents’ willingness to adopt shared electric bikes, regardless of their existing dominant transport mode. However, when it comes to subgroups with different travel preferences, the profile of potential early adopters vary distinctly. Specifically, younger public transport users are interested in adopting shared electric bikes but have price concerns; gender is the most significant variable to predict private vehicle user’s adopt willingness, and female user show strong concerns on safety issue; users who primarily walk or cycle can benefit from shared electric bikes to travel longer distances, and lastly, there are no significant variables to predict electric bike users’ intention to switch from self-owned bikes to shared programmes. Overall, an analytical framework is presented in the study to comprehend the diverse features of prospective early adopters who may utilize shared electric bikes from different transportation groups, and a collection of development strategies for operators is proposed.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards niche market for shared mobility: Identifying heterogeneity of potential early adopters to use shared electric bikes in a Chinese mega city

Wu¹,

Lei²,

Zhou

et al. 2023

Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology

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“…[44] defined intention as "a measure of the strength of one's intention to perform a specific behavior" (p. 288). It has been noted, by [45], that the investigation of public transportation behavioral intention has been growing in importance, in order to improve the use of public transportation and encourage sustainable economic development. Several researchers have paid great attention to behavioral intention in many sectors, such as education, healthcare, and tourism and hotels [46][47][48].…”

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Studying the Joint Effects of Perceived Service Quality, Perceived Benefits, and Environmental Concerns in Sustainable Travel Behavior: Extending the TPB

2023

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The importance of the sustainability concept has gained increasing attention from scholars and practitioners. In this context, the aim of this study was to examine the determinants of intention to continue to use the new Metro in Qatar, which is considered a sustainable mode of travel. Therefore, in this paper, a special attention was paid to certain variables, such as environmental concern, perceived quality, and perceived benefits. A quantitative method approach was employed, in which data were collected based on self-administered questionnaires. A total of 1334 Qatar residents responded to the survey questionnaire, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used for hypothesis testing. The results confirmed the direct effects of perceived behavioral control, social influence, and attitudes on the intention of residents to continue to use the Metro network in their travel. Moreover, perceived behavioral control was found to play a mediating role, enhancing the indirect relationship between perceived benefits and intention to continue to use the Metro network. More importantly, environmental concerns significantly and positively affected the attitudes and perceived behavioral control of travelers; furthermore, these variables presented a mediated influence—through service quality—on the intention to continue to use the Metro network. This study enriched the sustainability behavior literature by examining the influences of crucial factors. Thus, this study is considered of great value for policy-makers who hope to maximize the awareness level of environmental sustainability among the population, in order to encourage them to embrace changes in their lifestyle towards becoming more environmentally responsible.

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“…The subjective norms measuring variables had been considered by researchers for measuring public transport use intentions (Devika, et al, 2020; Shalender, et al, 2020; Bakti, et al, 2020; Brohi, et al, 2021 ). The PBC variables about confidence and freedom to travel by public transport had been used by Devika and Harikrishna, 2020 , Brohi et al, 2021 . Behavior or habit, another variable included in PBC, has been used by various researchers (Chen, et al, 2011; Fu, et al, 2016; Peng, et al, 2014 ).…”

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Understanding public transport use intention post Covid-19 outbreak using modified theory of planned behavior: Case study from developing country perspective

Bandyopadhyaya¹,

Bandyopadhyaya²

2022

Case Studies on Transport Policy

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Analysis of factors influencing mode shift to public transit in a developing country

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Towards niche market for shared mobility: Identifying heterogeneity of potential early adopters to use shared electric bikes in a Chinese mega city

Towards niche market for shared mobility: Identifying heterogeneity of potential early adopters to use shared electric bikes in a Chinese mega city

Studying the Joint Effects of Perceived Service Quality, Perceived Benefits, and Environmental Concerns in Sustainable Travel Behavior: Extending the TPB

Understanding public transport use intention post Covid-19 outbreak using modified theory of planned behavior: Case study from developing country perspective

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