Taking the self-driving bus

Taking the self-driving bus: A passenger choice experiment

Winter, M.K.E. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
Wien, Joost (Student TU Delft)
Molin, E.J.E. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics)
Cats, O. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
Morsink, Peter (Royal HaskoningDHV)
van Arem, B. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)

2019

At the brink of the introduction of self-driving vehicles, only little is known about how potential users perceive them. This is especially true for self-driving vehicles deployed in public transport services. In this study, the relative preferences for a trip with a self-driving bus is assessed compared to a trip with a regular bus, based on a stated preference experiment. Based on the responses of 282 respondents from the Netherlands and Germany, a discrete choice model is estimated as a Mixed Logit model including attitudes towards trust in self-driving vehicles and interest in technology. The results show that currently public transport passengers prefer the self-driving bus over the regular bus only for short trips. This is due to the finding that the value of travel time is about twice as high for the self-driving bus as for the regular bus for a short commuting trip. Findings from this study further suggest that the popularity of self-driving busses decreases with the presence of a human steward on-board, or if they are operated as a demand-responsive service with fixed routes. People who currently show a strong interest in technology or trust in automated vehicle technology perceive the self-driving busses better than others. The trust-effect is especially strong for women. In general, men are found to be more inclined to choose the self-driving bus than women. Preferences towards automated public transport services are expected to evolve along with the transition from demonstration pilots to their deployment in regular operations.

Automated public transport
Bus systems
Mixed Logit
Public transport passengers
Self-driving buses
Stated choice

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8221951e-474f-41b5-8642-19b6c277371a

https://doi.org/10.1109/MTITS.2019.8883310

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

2020-03-28

9781538694848

MT-ITS 2019 - 6th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems

6th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, MT-ITS 2019, 2019-06-05 → 2019-06-07, Krakow, Poland

MT-ITS 2019 - 6th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems

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© 2019 M.K.E. Winter, Joost Wien, E.J.E. Molin, O. Cats, Peter Morsink, B. van Arem