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Unintended Effects of Autonomous Driving: A Study on Mobility Preferences in the Future

  • 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 The results do not confirm the hypothesis that ownership will become an outdated model in the future.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.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author:Christina Pakusch, Gunnar Stevens, Alexander Boden, Paul Bossauer
Parent Title (English):Sustainability
Volume:10
Issue:7
Article Number:2404
Number of pages:22
ISSN:2071-1050
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-37723
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072404
Publisher:MDPI
Place of publication:Basel
Publishing Institution:Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Date of first publication:2018/07/10
Copyright:© 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.
Funding:Funding: This research was funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research; grant number 16SV7916.
Keyword:autonomous driving; consumption shifting; indirect rebound effects; preference migration; rebound effects; shared autonomous vehicles; travel mode choice; user preferences
Departments, institutes and facilities:Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Institut für Verbraucherinformatik (IVI)
Projects:EinfachTeilen - Intelligentes Carsharing zur Förderung der urbanen Mobilität (DE/BMBF/16SV7916)
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC):3 Sozialwissenschaften / 38 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr / 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
Entry in this database:2018/07/14
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International