Access-based consumption, behaviour change and future mobility: insights from visions of car sharing in Greater London

Henderson, Alex, Cao, Mengqiu and Liu, Qihao (2022) Access-based consumption, behaviour change and future mobility: insights from visions of car sharing in Greater London. Future Transportation, 2 (1). 216 - 236. ISSN 2673-7590

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Abstract

The way in which people choose to travel has changed throughout history and adaptations have taken place in order to provide the most convenient, efficient and cost-effective method(s) of transport possible. This research explores two trends—technological and socio-economic change—by discussing the effects of their application in the renewed drive to promote car clubs in Greater London through the introduction of new technologies and innovative ways in which a car can be used and hired, thus helping to generate new insights for car sharing. A mixed methods approach was used, combining secondary data analysis obtained from a car club member survey of 5898 people with in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Our findings show that there is an opportunity to utilise car clubs as a tool for facilitating a step change away from private vehicle ownership in the city. In addition, the results suggest that car club operators are seeking to deliver a mode of transport that is able to compete with private car ownership. In terms of policy implications, such findings would suggest that compromise is necessary, and an operator/authority partnership would offer the most effective way of delivering car clubs in a manner that benefits all Londoners.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futuretransp
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Authors
Divisions:	Statistics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2023 12:51
Last Modified:	08 May 2024 21:24
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/120849

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