The problems concerning transport sector highlight the need to allocate increasingly material and immaterial resources for the development of high-tech devices, able to improve greatly city liveability and citizens' transport conditions. In this regard, high attention has been paid to the development and subsequent implementation of smart technologies, able not only to collect data, but also to interpret them. Innovative transport systems, such as car sharing, bike sharing, boat sharing, and especially carpooling, thanks to the implementation of more and more performing Technologies (ICT) lead to greater economic progress, ensuring a strong reduction of costs and time. Carpooling is a system of private car shared among a group of people thanks to the use of smart technologies. Specifically, carpooling is based on an virtual platform (developed on a website or app) that allows users to provide or require the willingness to travel by a car directed in a certain place, encouraging the exploitation of resources (free places in car) that otherwise would be wasted. Over the years, several scholars have tried to identify the socio-demographic determinants of carpooling, in order to understand the real reasons for which people tend to resort to it. Specifically, the paper aims to facilitate the acquisition of a full awareness about the benefits of new forms of sustainable mobility, encouraged by an increasingly extensive and widespread use of technology (smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc.) (Ciasullo et al., 2016) for trips. Furthermore, the work attempts to provide an empirical evidence of the real reasons inducing consumers to use alternative "smart" journey systems and, more specifically, carpooling. In this regard, the study seeks to highlight whether, in addition to money saving, the rising success of this phenomenon is linkable to other reasons, such as environmental protection, desire to socialize, curiosity, comfort in travelling, etc.
Money saving or what? Understanding the advantages of carpooling through big data analysis
Ciasullo Maria Vincenza;Maione Gennaro;Torre Carlo;Troisi Orlando
2018-01-01
Abstract
The problems concerning transport sector highlight the need to allocate increasingly material and immaterial resources for the development of high-tech devices, able to improve greatly city liveability and citizens' transport conditions. In this regard, high attention has been paid to the development and subsequent implementation of smart technologies, able not only to collect data, but also to interpret them. Innovative transport systems, such as car sharing, bike sharing, boat sharing, and especially carpooling, thanks to the implementation of more and more performing Technologies (ICT) lead to greater economic progress, ensuring a strong reduction of costs and time. Carpooling is a system of private car shared among a group of people thanks to the use of smart technologies. Specifically, carpooling is based on an virtual platform (developed on a website or app) that allows users to provide or require the willingness to travel by a car directed in a certain place, encouraging the exploitation of resources (free places in car) that otherwise would be wasted. Over the years, several scholars have tried to identify the socio-demographic determinants of carpooling, in order to understand the real reasons for which people tend to resort to it. Specifically, the paper aims to facilitate the acquisition of a full awareness about the benefits of new forms of sustainable mobility, encouraged by an increasingly extensive and widespread use of technology (smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc.) (Ciasullo et al., 2016) for trips. Furthermore, the work attempts to provide an empirical evidence of the real reasons inducing consumers to use alternative "smart" journey systems and, more specifically, carpooling. In this regard, the study seeks to highlight whether, in addition to money saving, the rising success of this phenomenon is linkable to other reasons, such as environmental protection, desire to socialize, curiosity, comfort in travelling, etc.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
