Gauging Public Attitudes and Preferences Toward a Hypothetical Future Public Shared Automated Vehicle System: Examining the Roles of Gender, Race, Income, and Health

Noah Wexler; Yingling Fan

doi:10.1177/03611981221090512

Gauging Public Attitudes and Preferences Toward a Hypothetical Future Public Shared Automated Vehicle System: Examining the Roles of Gender, Race, Income, and Health

Noah Wexler, Yingling Fan

Urban & Regional Planning

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Abstract

We use data from an originally designed survey instrument administered in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area to gauge general attitudes and design preferences for a hypothetical shared automated vehicle (SAV) system. Design considerations include seating, payment and booking logistics, security, and extra space and amenities. We pay particular attention to the role of gender, race, health, and income in shaping these attitudes and preferences. Specifically, we use multiple regression models to uncover general willingness-to-use SAV technology, finding that women are overall less comfortable with the technology, Black and Hispanic participants are more willing to pay for SAV technology and generally display lower magnitude preferences for design considerations. Although results are mixed in both sets of analysis for health status, higher income individuals display higher willingness to pay and higher magnitude preferences for design considerations.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Transportation Research Record
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Pages	588-600
Number of pages	13
Volume	2676
Edition	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221090512
State	Published - Oct 2022

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research in this paper is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Smart and Connected Communities (NSF S&CC) program. The NSF S&CC award (#1831140) is entitled Leveraging Autonomous Shared Vehicles for Greater Community Health, Equity, Livability, and Prosperity (HELP). In addition, the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota provided in-kind support for the research in the paper.

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© National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2022.

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automated vehicles
operations
planning and analysis
planning for connected and automated vehicles
preference survey data analysis

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