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T1 The potential impact of using travel apps as a tool to reduce car use in cities. A literature review
A1 Casquero Soler, Daniel
A1 Martínez-Alvaro, Oscar
A1 García, Marta
K1 Movilidad
K1 Mobility
K1 Aplicaciones de viaje
K1 Travel apps
K1 Ingeniería civil
K1 Civil engineering
K1 Transporte
K1 Transportation
AB 64% of total trip-km are made in urban environments and these phenomena threaten urbansustainability (Van Audenhove et al. 2014). In the last decades, cities have been applyingdifferent policy measures to reduce car use. But they have notable limitations and usuallyproduced small impacts (Sunio y Schmöcker 2017).Smartphone has emerged as a promising alternative tool to enhance the effects of thepolicy interventions, because it can overcome several limitations and improve theirefficient adoption of sustainable options. Travel apps can be very useful because theyprovide accurate and real-time information. In addition, user-created information couldgreatly reinforce information from operators.A review of the literature of 98 recent papers was performed. It had two main objectives:which factors influence commuters to use travel apps; and second, what persuasiveinterventions supported by travel apps produce changes towards a more sustainablemobility behavior.Some facets offered by apps are effective for changing travel behaviour: individualizedadvice, feedback on one's own behavior and social comparisons between users. TheGoEco! experimental travel app, provided feedback and social comparisons on travelbehavior among users (Cellina et al. 2019). It was found to produce a statisticallysignificant change in individual mobility patterns.Travel apps remain underutilized, especially in suburban travel. Scholars found factors thatinfluence app usage: curiosity, expectations of increased utility, attractive design andperformance attributes are influence factor for app usage.In contrast, environmental motives, privacy (desire not to share information) and age (olderpeople are less likely to adopt apps) do not influence or do so not significantly.The findings of the literature review show that, moreover, to increase apps usage, appdesign and implementation requires different strategies for each segment of the population.There are groups of people who are more likely to use apps (e.g., technophiles and youngpeople).
PB Universidad de Burgos. Servicio de Publicaciones e Imagen Institucional
SN 978-84-18465-12-3
YR 2021
FD 2021-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6957
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6957
LA eng
NO Trabajo presentado en: R-Evolucionando el transporte, XIV Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte (CIT 2021), realizado en modalidad online los días 6, 7 y 8 de julio de 2021, organizado por la Universidad de Burgos
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 25-abr-2024