Do low-carbon rewards incentivize people to ridesplitting? Evidence from structural analysis

Ridesplitting is a pooled version of a ridesourcing service that can reduce emissions per trip compared with exclusive ridehailing. However, it only takes a small share of the ridesourcing market currently. Fiscal and social incentives are potential leverage tools to attract passengers from solo hailed rides. This study aims to quantitatively identify the effects of carbon credits (CC) and monetary rewards (MR) on people's willingness to adopt ridesplitting. The theory of planned behavior realized by structural equation modeling decomposes the factors which affect passengers' intention and actual action on choosing ridesplitting. Confirmatory factor analysis suggests that pro-environmental attitudes do not directly force people to ridesplitting. Path effect analysis shows that subjective norms and perceived behavioral control significantly affect ridesplitting intentions. Immediate effect regression reveals that CC has greater direct effects on ridesplitting intention than MR (4.5 times more effective). Moderating effect analysis shows the MR effect reduces while the CC effect enhances when increasing the incentive value. The results encourage policymakers and operation designers to consider better marketing schemes combining monetary and social incentives to promote ridesplitting and to gain better fiscal and environmental benefits from ridesourcing systems.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-022-10302-y
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022.
• Authors:
  • Wang, Lei
  • 0000-0002-2387-8030
  • Li, Wenxiang
  • 0000-0002-1919-0794
  • Weng, Jinxian
  • Zhang, Dong
  • Ma, Wanjing
• Publication Date: 2023-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 2077-2109
• Serial:
  • Transportation
  • Volume: 50
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISSN: 0049-4488
  • EISSN: 1572-9435
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/11116

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Incentives; Ridesharing; Ridesourcing; Social factors; Travel behavior
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01893316
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 15 2023 5:11PM