TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pakusch, Christina
A1  - Stevens, Gunnar
A1  - Boden, Alexander
A1  - Bossauer, Paul
T1  - Unintended Effects of Autonomous Driving: A Study on Mobility Preferences in the Future
T2  - Sustainability
N2  - Innovations in the mobility industry such as automated and connected cars could significantly reduce congestion and emissions by allowing the traffic to flow more freely and reducing the number of vehicles according to some researchers. However, the effectiveness of these sustainable product and service innovations is often limited by unexpected changes in consumption: some researchers thus hypothesize that the higher comfort and improved quality of time in driverless cars could lead to an increase in demand for driving with autonomous vehicles. So far, there is a lack of empirical evidence supporting either one or other of these hypotheses. To analyze the influence of autonomous driving on mobility behavior and to uncover user preferences, which serve as indicators for future travel mode choices, we conducted an online survey with a paired comparison of current and future travel modes with 302 participants in Germany. The results do not confirm the hypothesis that ownership will become an outdated model in the future. Instead they suggest that private cars, whether conventional or fully automated, will remain the preferred travel mode. At the same time, carsharing will benefit from full automation more than private cars. However, the findings indicate that the growth of carsharing will mainly be at the expense of public transport, showing that more emphasis should be placed in making public transport more attractive if sustainable mobility is to be developed.
KW  - consumption shifting
KW  - preference migration
KW  - shared autonomous vehicles
KW  - rebound effects
KW  - user preferences
KW  - travel mode choice
KW  - indirect rebound effects
KW  - autonomous driving
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://pub.h-brs.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3772
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-37723
SN  - 2071-1050
N1  - © 2018 by the authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
N1  - Funding: This research was funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research; grant number 16SV7916.
VL  - 10
IS  - 7
SP  - 2404
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -