Does free-floating carsharing reduce private vehicle ownership? The case of SHARE NOW in European cities

Jochem, Patrick; Frankenhauser, Dominik; Ewald, Lukas; Ensslen, Axel; Fromm, Hansjörg

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2020.09.016

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“…A fictitious advertisement based on a picture from the website Wikipedia Commons ( 2014 ) promoting a well-known carsharing service—ShareNow, the world's largest provider of free-floating carsharing—was used as stimulus material. ShareNow (and car2go and DriveNow, the precursory organizations before their merger in 2019) have been frequently investigated in prior studies (e.g., Firnkorn, 2012 ; Kortum et al, 2016 ; Jochem et al, 2020 ). Our stimulus focused on the German market, which is ShareNow's largest one (ShareNow, 2020b ).…”

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“…Münzel et al, 2019 ). Jochem et al's ( 2020 ) survey-based study on the impact of carsharing on private car ownership across 11 European cities revealed that one free-floating carsharing service replaces at least eight private cars and, in optimistic scenarios, even up to 20 cars. In this context, shared mobility services in general and free-floating carsharing in specific can mitigate public costs associated with personal car use and help cities in their development of a sustainable transportation strategy (Terrien et al, 2016 ; Shaheen et al, 2020 ).…”

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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Consumers' Intention to Use Shared-Mobility Services in German Cities

Garaus

2021

Front. Psychol.

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One sector that severely suffers from the outbreak of the coronavirus is carsharing (i.e., short-term car access). The downswing of the carsharing industry may not only experience negative economic consequences but also ecological ones. Carsharing has the potential to reduce emissions, occupied space, and congestion and hence can actively contribute to mitigating climate change. As Bill Gates strikingly states: “Covid-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.” For this reason, it is important to understand which underlying mechanisms drive carsharing usage during the Covid-19 pandemic. The current research has the overall objective to provide deeper insights into the mediating mechanisms that explain carsharing usage intention during the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, we draw on signaling theory to explore how different claims (environmental claims, safety claims) that prompt two different opposing underlying processes (perceived ecological benefits, perceived physical risk) influence carsharing usage intention. An online experiment employing a 3 (environmental claim vs. safety claim vs. no claim) × 2 (high information diagnosticity vs. low information diagnosticity) between-subjects design with participants acquired by the online panel platform Clickworker was conducted in April 2020. Fictitious labels and fictitious advertisements served as stimulus material and constituted the five experimental conditions. The data were analyzed by a multicategorial moderated mediation analysis and a multivariate analysis of covariance. Results reveal that environmental claims can stimulate perceived ecological benefits, which, in turn, positively affect carsharing usage intention. Interestingly, our research demonstrates that safety claims cannot decrease perceived physical risk in the context of Covid-19 and carsharing. Nevertheless, perceived physical risk has a (marginal) negative influence on carsharing usage intention and hence should not be discarded altogether. The findings of this article offer new insights into the mental processes that guide consumer decision-making during the coronavirus crisis and also offer important policy implications by highlighting the relevance of environmental claims during the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the negative influence of perceived physical risk on carsharing usage intention points to the need for alternative measures to reduce users' risk perceptions.

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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Consumers' Intention to Use Shared-Mobility Services in German Cities

Garaus

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…But so far, public transportation has been less popular with Russian residents than personal transportation, according to a report on the implementation of the current transportation strategy, which was adopted in 2013. In 2019, the tendency of passengers leaving public transport continued, «despite the growing attractiveness of urban passenger transport systems and cab and carsharing services» [1][2][3][4], due to dramatically improved road conditions, especially in the European part of the country, which allowed the use of personal cars, both for business trips and for tourism.…”

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Study of attitudes of Kazan residents to the perspective of refusing the use of a personal car as a means of transportation in the city

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The article is devoted to the study of the attitude of Kazan residents to the prospect of not using a personal car as a means of transportation in the city. The aim of this study is to develop recommendations to popularize the idea of using public transport services of Kazan city residents on the basis of the analysis and its evaluation. To achieve the goal, the following main tasks were set and solved: a theoretical and empirical interpretation of the main concepts on the topic of the study; a comparative analysis of the volume of public costs from the use of a private car by residents of Kazan and their use of public transport services was carried out; the system of public transport in the city of Kazan was evaluated. The methodological tools of the study included a questionnaire survey and content analysis. As a result of the study, we found that at the moment there is indeed a problem within the city of Kazan, which consists in the impossibility of ensuring the universal transition of residents from the use of private cars to the consumption of public transport services, due to the lack of development of the relevant infrastructure.

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“…The sharing economy seeks a more efficient use of resources with positive economic, social and environmental consequences [1]. Abandoning possession in favour of temporary access to a good or service makes the system more economically and environmentally efficient [2].…”

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User interest in car sharing as an indicator of sustainable urban agglomeration development

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The use of car sharing instead of owning a car minimises the negative impact of logistics activities on the urban environment. This research aims to show that sustainable development of densely populated cities is accompanied by an increase in Internet users’ interest in sharing services. The research of Internet users’ interest in car sharing services was based on Google Trends data on search queries originating from Russia, the United States and Canada over the past five years. In the course of this work, the hypothesis was confirmed that high user interest in car sharing is mainly observed in urban agglomerations with high population numbers and density, where the positive effects of car sharing are most noticeable. The paper emphasises the need to encourage the creation of new services in urban logistics, which will contribute to sustainable development and increase the competitiveness of cities. It also confirms the hypothesis that the growing interest of Internet users in the new service is accompanied by an increase in the market volume. User interest in established car sharing markets is at a stable level, except for the occurrence of significant events (e.g., the emergence of a new major player in the market) that stimulate an increase in interest.

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Does free-floating carsharing reduce private vehicle ownership? The case of SHARE NOW in European cities

Cited by 52 publications

References 34 publications

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Consumers' Intention to Use Shared-Mobility Services in German Cities

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Consumers' Intention to Use Shared-Mobility Services in German Cities

Study of attitudes of Kazan residents to the perspective of refusing the use of a personal car as a means of transportation in the city

User interest in car sharing as an indicator of sustainable urban agglomeration development

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