Lehtonen, E, Malin, F, Innamaa, S et al. (4 more authors) (Cover date: June 2021) Are multimodal travellers going to abandon sustainable travel for L3 automated vehicles? Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 10. 100380. ISSN 2590-1982
Abstract
Reducing car dependency supports the creation of a more sustainable transport system. However, automated vehicles (AVs) are predicted to increase the attractiveness of car travel and decrease the use of public transport and active travel. This current study explored how travellers’ intention to use AVs and their current travel behaviour influence their expectations of how they will use public transport and active travel, once conditionally automated (SAE L3) vehicles (L3 AVs) are available.
Survey data (collected during the EU H2020 L3Pilot project) from among current car users from eight European countries (n = 9118) was used. Respondents were asked about their current travel mode usage, intention to use L3 AVs, and expected changes in the use of public transport and active travel once L3 AVs are available. The respondents were divided into nine user segments based on their level of intention to use L3 AVs and multimodality.
Most respondents did not foresee changes in their use of public transport (62%) or active travel (67%). A higher intention to use L3 AVs increased the probability of a traveller expecting to decrease their use of public transport and, to a lesser extent, active travel. Multimodal travellers used public transport and active travel regularly and were also more likely to see a change, either up or down, in their use of public transport and active travel. The results suggest that L3 AVs may pose a challenge to the sustainability by encouraging current users of public transport and active travel to switch to personal AVs.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Mode choice; Travel behaviour; Multimodality; Conditionally automated vehicles; Automated vehicle acceptance |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Safety and Technology (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 723051 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 May 2021 13:37 |
Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2023 15:56 |
Published Version: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.trip.2021.100380 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173580 |
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