Mobility styles and car sharing use in Europe: attitudes, behaviours, motives and sustainability

Ramos, Érika Martins Silva; Bergstad, Cecilia Jakobsson; Chicco, Andrea; Diana, Marco

doi:10.1186/s12544-020-0402-4

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“…According to Meijkamp [272], car-sharing members usually use more often other sustainable modes such as cycling and public transport. This analysis was recently confirmed by Ramos et al [273]; they observed that the majority of European car-sharing users have the weakest habits of private car use and prone to use sustainable transport modes.…”

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Sustainable Mobility: A Review of Possible Actions and Policies

Gallo

Marinelli

2020

Sustainability

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In this paper, a review of the main actions and policies that can be implemented to promote sustainable mobility is proposed. The work aims to provide a broad, albeit necessarily not exhaustive, analysis of the main studies and research that from different points of view have focused on sustainable mobility. The structure of the paper enables the reader to easily identify the topics covered and the studies related to them, so as to guide him/her to the related in-depth studies. In the first part of the paper, there is a preliminary analysis of the concept of sustainable mobility, the main transport policies implemented by the European Union and the USA, and the main statistical data useful to analyze the problem. Next, the main policies that can promote sustainable mobility are examined, classifying them into three topics: Environmental, socio-economic, and technological. Many of the policies and actions examined could be classified into more than one of the three categories used; for each of them, there is a description and the main literature work on which the topic can be analyzed in more detail. The paper concludes with a discussion on the results obtained and the prospects for research.

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Sustainable Mobility: A Review of Possible Actions and Policies

Gallo

Marinelli

2020

Sustainability

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“…More specifically, we postulate that the perception of ecological benefits is driving carsharing usage. While there is a growing interest in sustainable products and services (Atkinson and Rosenthal, 2014), environmental benefits have been identified as a nice add-on rather than a driver of carsharing usage (e.g., Lindloff et al, 2014;Hartl et al, 2018;Ramos et al, 2020). Our research offers new important insights into the role of perceived ecological perspective, even more dramatic figures are reported in the San Francisco Bay area for public transit: In November, the use of public transportation was 90% below the pre-pandemic level (Cohen, 2020a).…”

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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 Covid 19 pandemic also contributed to understanding smart cities' concept as a sustainable city model in 2020, which led to a change in urban mobilities. Cities started to accelerate the construction of pedestrians and cyclists' construction and prepare, together with private partners, a new car or bike-sharing concepts in cities [83]. The outbreak of COVID -19 in 2020 led to the closure of carsharing providers.…”

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Impact of the Car-Sharing on Urban Sustainability

Roblek¹,

Meško²,

Podbregar³

2020

Preprint

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(1) Background: The article gives us an insight into the key issues of the car-sharing and its impact on urban sustainability. (2) Methods: A selection of 314 articles published in peer-reviewed journals from the Scopus database were analysed using Leximancer 5.0 for Automated Content analysis. (3) Results: Seven themes were identified explaining the researched topic of the car-sharing situation in Europe, which are Sharing, Economy, Model, Systems, Electrical car-sharing, Policy and Travel. There are two ways of sharing owned cars in Europe, access to cars from the fleet of private organizations and P2P car-sharing. Sustainable environmental solutions in the context of the electrification of cars are used. Car-sharing usually takes place online and can be free or for a free as defined by The European Economic and Social Committee. (4) Conclusions: The article provides an overview of understanding the concept of urban car-sharing in Europe.

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Mobility styles and car sharing use in Europe: attitudes, behaviours, motives and sustainability

Cited by 60 publications

References 65 publications

Sustainable Mobility: A Review of Possible Actions and Policies

Sustainable Mobility: A Review of Possible Actions and Policies

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

Impact of the Car-Sharing on Urban Sustainability

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