How can ridesharing be facilitated in car dependent practices? Insights from carless participants in organized leisure

This paper contributes a hitherto overlooked perspective on leisure practices-as-entities, and as performed by the carless, to understand and facilitate the conditions for related shared mobility. It identifies how organized car dependent leisure practices can be performed more sustainably by means of ridesharing. Applying a social practice perspective, car use is viewed as bundled with leisure practices. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 25 carless practitioners of scouting, orienteering, and children’s soccer in Sweden, we seek to determine the procedures and frictions of ridesharing, and how it can be facilitated. The findings show that ridesharing occurs and is mediated by digital tools in all three studied practices. Notable variations and sources of friction relate to whether ridesharing is collectively or individually coordinated, which is connected to the meanings and competences of the leisure practices themselves. The paper illustrates that, to facilitate ridesharing, competences beyond the management of digital tools are needed. More concretely, the promotion of ridesharing as part of a more formalized exchange within clubs and associations for organized leisure is suggested. Carless performers of car dependent practices illustrate potential “proto-practices” beyond the private car.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2023.100737
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X23001886
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Lagrell, Ellen
  • 0000-0001-8972-2285
• Publication Date: 2024-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 100737
• Serial:
  • Travel Behaviour and Society
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2214-367X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2214367X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile travel; Leisure time; Ridesharing; Shared mobility; Travel behavior
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01905234
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 22 2024 10:56AM