Who is willing to share their AV? : insights about gender differences among seven countries

Polydoropoulou, Amalia (author), Tsouros, Ioannis (author), Thomopoulos, Nikolas (author), Pronello, Cristina (author), Elvarsson, Arnór B. (author), Sigþórsson, Haraldur (author), Dadashzadeh, Nima (author), Stojmenova Pečečnik, Kristina (author), Sodnik, Jaka (author), Neophytou, Stelios N. (author), Esztergár-Kiss, Domokos (author), Hamadneh, Jamil (author), Parkhurst, Graham (author), Etzioni, Shelly (author), Shiftan, Yoram (author), Di Ciommo, Floridea (author)

The introduction of shared autonomous vehicles into the transport system is suggested to bring significant impacts on traffic conditions, road safety and emissions, as well as overall reshaping travel behaviour. Compared with a private autonomous vehicle, a shared automated vehicle (SAV) is associated with different willingness-to-adopt and willingness-to-pay characteristics. An important aspect of future SAV adoption is the presence of other passengers in the SAV—often people unknown to the cotravellers. This study presents a cross-country exploration of user preferences and WTP calculations regarding mode choice between a private non-autonomous vehicle, and private and shared autonomous vehicles. To explore user preferences, the study launched a survey in seven European countries, including a stated-preference experiment of user choices. To model and quantify the effect of travel mode attributes and socio-demographic characteristics, the study employs a mixed logit model. The model results were the basis for calculating willingness-to-pay values for all countries and travel modes, and provide insight into the significant heterogeneous, gender-wise effect of cotravellers in the choice to use an SAV. The study results highlight the importance of analysis of the effect of SAV attributes and shared-ride conditions on the future acceptance and adoption rates of such services.

• Language: English
• Keywords: autonomous vehicles, shared autonomous vehicles, SAV, willingness-to-pay, WTP, willingness-to-adopt, gender, cross-national comparison
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering; FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 19 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 13, iss. 9, art. 4769
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135306
• UDC: 004:656.1
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su13094769
• COBISS.SI-ID: 62302723
• Publication date in RUL: 07.03.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sustainability
• Shortened title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.05.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: avtonomna vozila, avtonomna vozila v skupni rabi, pripravljenost za plačilo, pripravljenost za sprejetje, spol, mednarodne primerjave

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: COST
• Project number: CA16222
• Name: Wider Impacts and Scenario Evaluation of Autonomous and Connected Transport
• Acronym: WISE-ACT