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Increasing urbanization and the simultaneous growth of car-based individual transport pose major challenges for many cities. On the one hand, streets and parking facilities are reaching their capacity limits, and on the other hand, car emissions are a burden for both residents and environment. A transformation from one-person car use to emission-free shared mobility could be part of the solution. Small autonomous, electrified shuttle buses, which can carry 10–15 people on-demand, are already in the technical development stage. At present, however, many questions remain unanswered regarding the design of mobility services around the technological platform. This paper therefore explores which factors influence the willingness to share rides and to abandon private car ownership. While for the willingness to use ridesharing, especially the familiarity with the passengers and, to a small extent, the purpose of the trip has an influence, the expected advantages in terms of flexibility and costs are particularly important for the willingness to abandon a car. A positive attitude towards conventional car driving counteracts both measures surveyed.
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This research was funded by Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) within the funding guideline “Automated and Connected Driving” under the grant number 16AVF2134B. The authors thank all participants for sharing opinions on a novel technology. Furthermore, thanks go to Susanne Gohr for research assistance, to Dr. Johanna Kluge, Dr. Simon Himmel, and Julian Hildebrandt for valuable research advice, as well as to the icon of outlaw country for inspiring the paper title.
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Philipsen, R., Brell, T., Biermann, H., Ziefle, M. (2020). On the Road Again - Explanatory Factors for the Users’ Willingness to Replace Private Cars by Autonomous on-Demand Shuttle Services. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1212. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50943-9_23
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