Decentralized mobility hubs in urban residential neighborhoods improve the contribution of carsharing to sustainable mobility: findings from a quasi-experimental study

Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Publikationsdatum
2023-12
Sprache
English
Author
Czarnetzki, Felix orcid-logo
Siek, Florian 
Institut
Verkehrsplanung und Logistik W-8 
DOI
10.15480/882.4814
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/13980
Enthalten in
Transportation 
Volume
50
Issue
6
Start Page
2193
End Page
2225
Citation
Transportation 50 (6): 2193-2225 (2023-12)
Publisher DOI
10.1007/s11116-022-10305-9
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85134563627
Carsharing contributes to sustainable urban mobility by reducing private car ownership and use. Thus, policy-makers and planners need to know how cities can foster carsharing and the related benefits. Decentralized mobility hubs are an emerging approach to supporting carsharing. These hubs provide designated carsharing parking spots in the public street spaces of urban residential neighborhoods. The objective is to embed carsharing services into the immediate residential environments of urban households. Thus, the hubs are intended to make carsharing more accessible, reliable, and convenient. However, there is a lack of empirical insights into the impact of decentralized mobility hubs on carsharing. This research uses survey data on carsharing users in the inner city of Hamburg, Germany, to appreciate the actual effects of such hubs on car ownership, transport mode usage, and the perception of carsharing. Decentralized mobility hubs have existed in several high-density residential neighborhoods in Hamburg since 2017. Our findings suggest that the use of these hubs leads to a substantially more positive perception of carsharing and, as a consequence, to a greater willingness of carsharing users to forgo car ownership. Ultimately, by supporting the reduction of private car ownership, the hubs promote not only carsharing, but also the use of other sustainable modes of transportation.
Schlagworte
Car ownership
Car use
Multimodality
On-street parking
Street space allocation
Urban mobility
DDC Class
600: Technik
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften
Projekt(e)
Projekt DEAL 
Funding Organisations
Hamburger Hochbahn AG 
Publication version
publishedVersion
Lizenz
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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