Cellina, Francesca and Derboni, Marco and Kovacs, Nikolett and Rizzoli, Andrea Emilio and Cartolano, Fabio (2020) Integrating public transport and car-pooling services: Evidence from a field test in Switzerland. In: Proceedings of TRA2020, the 8th Transport Research Arena UNSPECIFIED, 27-30 April.
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This paper introduces the SocialCar platform aimed at reducing individual car use by combining the car flexibility and comfort with the advantages by public transport, such as punctuality, safety and lower environmental impact. SocialCar delivers its services by means of a smartphone app, which performs multi-modal vehicle routing by accounting for walking, public transport and car-pooling rides. It was field tested in four European sites, engaging common citizens and their everyday mobility needs. Here we present the app and the test we run in Switzerland, by involving 74 citizens for four weeks. Its outcomes provide a positive evaluation of the app effectiveness but also highlight the challenges of using real-life data, such as shortcomings in the availability of detailed and up-to-date public transport and car-pooling data. We conclude with the users’ viewpoint on SocialCar’s strengths and weaknesses and its potential for large-scale diffusion, based on focus groups with 19 participants.
| Item Type: | Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Engineering > Civil engineering > Transport engineering |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design > Istituto sostenibilità applicata all'ambiente costruito |
| Depositing User: | Francesca Cellina |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2020 14:03 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2020 14:03 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/12214 |
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