User Experience of Dynamic Carpooling: How to Encourage Drivers and Passengers?

Créno, Lisa

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19818-7_8

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“…Its diffusion is 556 TQM 30,5 strongest in areas where traditional transport services (buses, trains, trams, taxis and so on) are inadequate with respect to demand. What characterizes this form of carpooling more than anything else is the tendency to resort to it only in times of urgency or emergency, since for planned or cyclic needs, it is cheaper to use alternative travel systems (Créno, 2016). In this regard, Massaro et al (2009) reported that dynamic carpooling challenges traditional carpooling restrictions by allowing a large membership base of passengers and drivers to be matched with each other automatically in real time, allowing for on-the-spot arrangement of rides.…”

Section: Dynamic Carpoolingmentioning

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Carpooling: travelers’ perceptions from a big data analysis

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the reasons why people use or do not use carpooling. A further aim is to collect and analyze empirical evidence concerning the advantages and disadvantages of carpooling. Design/methodology/approach A large-scale text analytics study has been conducted: the collection of the peoples’ opinions have been realized on Twitter by means of a dedicated web crawler, named “Twitter4J.” After their mining, the collected data have been treated through a sentiment analysis realized by means of “SentiWordNet.” Findings The big data analysis identified the 12 most frequently used concepts about carpooling by Twitter’s users: seven advantages (economic efficiency, environmental efficiency, comfort, traffic, socialization, reliability, curiosity) and five disadvantages (lack of effectiveness, lack of flexibility, lack of privacy, danger, lack of trust). Research limitations/implications Although the sample is particularly large (10 percent of the data flow published on Twitter from all over the world in about one year), the automated collection of people’s comments has prevented a more in-depth analysis of users’ thoughts and opinions. Practical implications The research findings may direct entrepreneurs, managers and policy makers to understand the variables to be leveraged and the actions to be taken to take advantage of the potential benefits that carpooling offers. Originality/value The work has utilized skills from three different areas, i.e., business management, computing science and statistics, which have been synergistically integrated for customizing, implementing and using two IT tools capable of automatically identifying, selecting, collecting, categorizing and analyzing people’s tweets about carpooling.

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Section: Dynamic Carpoolingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carpooling: travelers’ perceptions from a big data analysis

Ciasullo

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Loia

et al. 2018

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“…Another important attribute is the high number of potential users. Critical mass of carpool users has been identified in the literature as a relevant factor to encourage solo drivers to improve carpooling [28,29]. Similarly, privacy of users is an important aspect to be considered by the system.…”

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“…Long-term planning Teachers need to arrive on time every day and they need to plan their trips in advance [27] Critical Mass High number of potential users. The higher the number of potential users, the easier it is to match routes with other users from the education sector may access the system [28,29] Privacy Need for protecting personal data [30,35] Free election Travel mates are not imposed by the system [27,36] Trust Only workers from the education sector could to access to the system [37,38] Fee The system will not charge any cost to the users [31,32] Save cost The system will inform users on the amount of money saved for each carpooling travel [13,33,34]…”

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Proposal for an Institutional Carpooling System among Workers from the Public-Education Sector

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Car journeys to work represent a high percentage of daily mobility. Carpooling can be an efficient alternative for managing this transport demand. Carpooling benefits are not limited to reducing emissions and energy consumption: users can also benefit in the reduction in travel costs and travel time using high-occupancy vehicle lanes, as well as reducing commuting stress. The organization of such a system is not easy to carry out individually. Institutions and companies with a high number of employees are suitable for carpooling initiatives, and the education sector holds a high number of workers. Considering the large number of teachers and the fact that many of them are regular drivers, the sector presents an opportunity to design a formal carpooling transport system. This paper presents the design of a proposal for a carpooling system among workers from the education sector in the region of Andalusia, Spain. The system yielded relevant benefits such as cost savings, emissions reductions, and a high number of potential users. The designed system can potentially improve transport conditions for workers in commuting displacements and reduce occupational traffic accidents.

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