Shaping inclusiveness of a transportation system: Factors affecting seat-yielding behavior of university students in public transportation

Baig, Farrukh; Zhang, Dong; Lee, Jae Young; Xu, Hui

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2021.11.004

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“…The not yielding seat behavior of frequent public transportation users can be explained by the frequent interaction with vulnerable people likely reducing the motivation of helping others. The findings of the respondents’ sociodemographic details are in line with a previous study exploring seat yielding behavior from psychological perspectives ( 38 ).…”

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confidence: 89%

The Impacts of Incentives on Seat Yielding Behavior on the Bus

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Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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The global target to achieve inclusive public transportation includes the availability of courtesy seating for vulnerable individuals such as elderly people, people with disabilities, pregnant women, and children. The frequent usage of courtesy seats by passengers who are not vulnerable individuals is an issue pertaining to public transportation. It is important to encourage the travelers to yield seats in the presence of vulnerable individuals because the latter might get seriously injured by falling if they stay on a moving vehicle. This study explores the influence of incentives and situational factors affecting individuals’ decisions to yield seats to vulnerable people. Through an online questionnaire survey, 404 valid responses were obtained. The generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) with repeated measures was used to identify the influential factors affecting the self-reported decisions of yielding seats to vulnerable individuals. The results indicate that the situational factors (health, crowd, vulnerable passenger type, standing time after yielding seats), incentive types, and incentive amounts are significant factors affecting the decisions to yield seats. The study’s findings also indicate that travelers are more sensitive to people with disabilities and pregnant women than to elderly people and children. The practical implications, including campaigning, education interventions, and incentive-based mechanism, were suggested to encourage travelers to yield seats to vulnerable individuals.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

The Impacts of Incentives on Seat Yielding Behavior on the Bus

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Zhang

Chen

et al. 2022

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…Transportation authorities should formulate some strategies to cope with a post-pandemic situation. Providing incentives to lower-income groups who use public transportation [57], shaping inclusiveness for people with disabilities [29], and starting awareness campaigns will help bring the riders back to public transportation in the post-pandemic world. More research is needed to find alternate ways to manage the increased cost of public transportation due to COVID-19 preventive measures, as highlighted in a previous study [15].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, Alzahrani et al [35] applied the theory of reasoned action to explore the consumers' intentions to use hybrid electric vehicles in Saudi Arabia. Baig et al [29] used the…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To this view, researchers and policymakers are interested in people's intentions to use public transportation to develop marketing strategies and managerial applications to increase ridership [26,27]. The transportation policy-related soft measures, which include voluntary changes through psychological and behavioral strategies, play an essential role in motivating people to use public transportation by enhancing intentions to use public transportation [28,29]. Therefore, it is of great interest to explore the willingness to use public transportation in Greece to propose managerial implications for the transportation agencies supporting the increase in ridership in the post-pandemic world.…”

Section: Willingness To Use Public Transportationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Alzahrani et al [35] applied the theory of reasoned action to explore the consumers' intentions to use hybrid electric vehicles in Saudi Arabia. Baig et al [29] used the theory of planned behavior to identify the factors to promote pro-social behavior necessary for inclusive public transportation. The social cognitive theory has been applied to explore the media influence on the public acceptance of automated vehicles [36].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Changes in People’s Mobility Behavior in Greece after the COVID-19 Outbreak

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The lockdown and social distancing policies to reduce COVID-19 spread and perceived safety threats of COVID-19 significantly affected people’s travel behavior. Greece has been suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and people’s mobility behavior has been greatly affected. This study aims at: (1) exploring the variations in individuals’ trip frequencies by mode and purpose before and after the COVID-19 outbreak; (2) understanding the effects of individual differences (i.e., sociodemographic details) and perceptions towards COVID-19 (i.e., the perceived threats of COVID-19) on people’s mobility behavior changes after the outbreak; (3) underlining the individuals’ perceptions of the COVID-19 threat on the willingness of public transportation usage. Overall, 403 responses were collected in late 2020. A series of random parameter Probit modeling results reveal multiple individual and perception factors affecting the changes in mobility behavior in Greece. The results from structural equation modeling indicate that perceived COVID-19 threats affect the attitudes and subjective norms towards people’s intentions to use public transportation. The results from this study provide valuable insights for transportation authorities to develop effective strategies to manage traffic during the spread of disease for a possible future epidemic.

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