User reaction to car share and lift share within a transport ‘marketplace’

Understanding collaborative consumption: Test of a theoretical model

“…Bardhi and Eckhardt (2012) conducted a qualitative study of the access economy for cars and found some surprising results, with consumers largely motivated by self-interest and utilitarianism. A quantitative study of car sharing by May et al (2008) found that financial savings were important factors in explaining behavioral intention. Hamari et al (2015) test a simple structural model of online collaborative consumption (n=168) and find that the extrinsic motivation of economic benefits also determines behavioral intention to use.…”

“…Hamari et al (2015) find that intrinsic motivations of sustainability influence attitudes towards use, while May et al (2008) found that environmental savings were important factors in explaining behavioral intentions to car share. Tussyadiah (2015) also found sustainability benefits to be a key motivational factor in her study of accommodation sharing.…”

“…Surprisingly, Moelmann (2015) found that cost savings did not influence continuance behavior or satisfaction for car sharing or accommodation sharing. In concert with Hamari et al (2015) and May et al (2008), we expect that perceptions of environmental (sustainability) benefits will motivate behavioral intentions in collaborative consumption environments. Several models of generalized sustainable consumption have been proposed by conservationists including values-beliefs-norms, motivationopportunity-abilities and more recently a social cognitive theory, which suggests that consumers both create their own behaviors and are a product of their environment and past behaviors 14 (Phipps et al 2013).…”

Sharing Economy: Business Models and Regulatory Landscape in the Mediterranean Areas

“…Table 3. Benefits and weakness of ride sharing and car sharing platforms Several studies have analysed the costs and benefits of car sharing (Cervero & Tsai, 2004;Huwer, 2004;Katzev, 2003;May et al, 2008). These studies found that ride sharing and car sharing eliminate the fixed cost associated with auto transport (e.g.…”

Innovative application of inventory theory for determining optimal fleet size for a car-sharing system

“…There is a number of studies dealing with different aspects of such systems as experiences with real systems [2,13,16], Cost-Benefit Analysis [6], possible use of new communication and GPS technologies [3,5,6,9,16,17,20], alternative car power sources [18], the motivation for participation in such systems [4,8,14,18], localization of stations and relocation of vehicles [10,16,1,23]. There also exists studies dealing with optimization of vehicle fleet in car-sharing systems [11,12], which is focus of our article.…”