Understanding the Competitive Advantages of Car Sharing from the Travel-Cost Perspective

Clicks: 171
ID: 111539
2020
Free PDF
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality Improving Quality
0.0 /100
Combines engagement data with AI-assessed academic quality
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Abstract
The emergence and development of car sharing can not only satisfy people’s diverse travel demands, but also can bring a new solution to facilitate urban low-carbon and green development. With the increasing acceptance of car sharing, the market competition between car sharing and traditional taxis is becoming increasingly fierce. Therefore, we explore the advantages of car sharing to travelers compared with taxis. In this paper, we first use the GPS (Global Positioning System) trajectory data of car sharing orders to construct a comparative advantage model based on travel-cost. Then, we take Beijing as the research area to explore the travel-cost advantages of car sharing in terms of the time and space dimensions compared with taxis, through calculating the travel-cost of car sharing and using simulation to calculate that of taxis. The results of the comparison between car sharing and taxis from the perspective of travel-cost are as follows: (1) Compared with short trips, the travel-cost advantage of car sharing is relatively higher in medium and long trips; for travelers, the taxi has a higher travel-cost advantage when the travel time is either very long or very short. (2) On weekdays, it is more cost-effective to travel by shared cars for travelers before the rush hours in the evening, and the travel-cost advantage of using taxis is greater after the evening peak. (3) Compared with weekdays, it is more cost-effective to travel by shared cars on weekends wherever travelers are living in the main urban areas or in the remote suburbs. It is suggested that relevant departments should understand the travelers’ preference and analyze the influence mechanism of other various factors on the market demand for car sharing as per the focus on the market on the travel-cost advantages of car sharing, so as to promote the healthy and sustainable development of urban shared transportation.
Reference Key
dong2020internationalunderstanding Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
Authors Xianlei Dong;Yongfang Cai;Jiaming Cheng;Beibei Hu;Huijun Sun;Dong, Xianlei;Cai, Yongfang;Cheng, Jiaming;Hu, Beibei;Sun, Huijun;
Journal International journal of environmental research and public health
Year 2020
DOI
10.3390/ijerph17134666
URL
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/13/4666##authors
Keywords
car sharing taxi gps trajectory data travel-cost advantage comparison National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine pmid:32610498 pmc7370085 doi:10.3390/ijerph17134666 xianlei dong yongfang cai huijun sun

Citations

No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.