Travel behaviours, user characteristics, and social-economic impacts of shared transportation: a comprehensive review

Abstract

Shared transportation is playing an increasingly important role in sustainable urban transportation planning and control. Because it significantly affects people's daily life, socioeconomic development, and the environment, shared transportation has attracted attention from scholars and practitioners alike. For the former, the large number of articles published on the topic reveals the growing interest. Of interest are the articles that focus on travel behaviours, user characteristics, and social-economic impacts of shared transportation. Herein, we review 356 peer-reviewed articles on the topic that were published between January 2003 and September 2017. We employ a bibliometric method to investigate the overall characteristics, research methodology, research highlights, and research areas of these articles. Our analysis explores and discusses user travel behaviours, traffic satisfaction, key determinants, impact, development planning, and policies. Finally, we provide a detailed discussion on the future research challenges and new research directions for shared transportation.

Are Shared Vehicles Shared by All? A Review of Equity and Vehicle Sharing

“…Other researchers have noted a disparity in research volume between bikesharing and other forms of vehicle sharing (Standing, Standing, and Biermann 2019). Another review that quantified the key words used in research on shared transportation revealed that bikeshare-related terms were much more common than carsharing terms between 2014 and 2017, when research on both topics increased significantly compared to the previous decade (Sun et al 2019). While there may be underlying factors involving the interests of researchers and funding agencies, differences in the operations of both systems may be influencing research volume.…”

“…A more recent review covered the limited amount of research on free-floating bikeshare systems and identified several areas for further research including spatial and social equity (Hirsch et al 2019). A review of all types of shared transportation, including vehicle sharing, carpooling, and ridehailing, examined factors influencing use and the impacts of such systems but included limited analysis of research on user demographics (Sun et al 2019).…”

User Behavior Traffic Analysis Using a Simplified Memory-Prediction Framework

“…Stiawan et al [7] have combined interaction behavior and user attitude as habitual activities with users' known activities, such as browsing the web, accessing database applications, etc., to recognize normal, suspicious, or malicious internal users through the classification of the packets in network traffic. Sun et al [8] explored and discussed user travel behaviors, traffic satisfaction, key determinants, impacts, development planning, and policies to determine the impact of a shared human transportation system. Other recent works on insider attacks that consider user behavior analytics (UBA) are presented in [9][10][11].…”

Improving Acceptability of Cost Savings Allocation in Ridesharing Systems Based on Analysis of Proportional Methods

“…The incorporation of social preferences into ridesharing decisions was studied by Saisubramanian et al in [25] and the consideration of trust in the ridesharing system was studied by Hsieh in [26]. A study on sharing rides with friends was available in the work [27] by Bistaffa et al A review of user behaviors/characteristics as well as social-economic impacts of the shared transport mode was available in the paper [28] by Sun et al Recent developments in studies on ridesharing can be found in the paper [29] by Hyland and Mahmassani. Although cities may benefit from ridesharing, stakeholders such as drivers and riders may adopt the ridesharing transport mode for a variety of reasons. People used to drive their own cars may not accept ridesharing due to inconvenience, detours, and the extra time needed to share with other riders.…”