Understanding the ridesharing needs of older adults

Payyanadan, Rashmi P.; Lee, John D.

doi:10.1016/j.tbs.2018.08.002

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“…In the US, for example, daily shopping trips and social and recreational trips are more numerous than commuting trips, and they are primarily made by car [74]. In social terms, the development of everyday and long-distance carpooling has the potential to improve access to mobility for people with health or economic problems, or people living in areas with poor public transport provision [75,76]. Sharing rides associated with childrens' school and extracurricular activities is also a way to ease the pressure on complex family schedules [47].…”

Section: The Under Consideration Of Carpooling For Non-work Purposesmentioning

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The Future and Sustainability of Carpooling Practices. An Identification of Research Challenges

Aguiléra

Pigalle

2021

Sustainability

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This article proposes several new research directions regarding the future and sustainability of carpooling practices. The reflection is based on a systematic review of the literature (2010–2021) and a consideration of some of the main recent changes in carpooling, such as carpooling platforms and apps, and changes in lifestyles that may affect carpooling practices, such as telework. Carpooling is defined here as the sharing of short- or long-distance car rides between people who are not members of the same household, for a trip (or part of a trip) already scheduled by the driver, free of charge or expense sharing. After a description of the corpus selection method used, followed by a brief review of existing literature, we propose three new avenues for research. The first avenue is a call for greater consideration of forms of transport, other than carpooling, to work (or to the place of study), which remain poorly studied. The second avenue proposes the investigation of the role that the current digitalisation of carpooling, namely online carpooling platforms and their integration into mobility platforms, and also the use of social media by carpoolers, could play in the coming years. The third avenue argues that the consequences of the rise of collaborative consumption and the current pandemic, namely teleworking practices and the perception of shared mobility, could have an effect on carpooling, which merits specific investigation.

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The Future and Sustainability of Carpooling Practices. An Identification of Research Challenges

Aguiléra

Pigalle

2021

Sustainability

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“…The Commission on Aging defines ridesharing as an option for two or more individuals traveling to the same location or along the same route to share the ride's cost amongst the passengers (Commission on Aging, 2012). Payyanadan and Lee used a contextual design approach in studying the ridesharing needs of older adults (Payyanadan & Lee, 2018). They instrumented the vehicles of older drivers with recording equipment and conducted post-drive interviews, after which they analyzed the results from the recordings and interviews.…”

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An Accessible Autonomous Vehicle Ridesharing Ecosystem

Carvalho

Gluck

Quinn

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Autonomous ridesharing vehicles provide a potential alternative and affordable mode of transportation for older adults and users with disabilities or special needs, but relatively few studies have investigated the accessibility of autonomous ridesharing applications and vehicles for them. Therefore, a participatory design approach was used to investigate the needs and challenges of this population. This investigation involved interviews, review of past focus group transcripts, literature reviews, and surveys. The findings resulted in a list of user needs to design and build prototypes of accessible technologies as part of an ecosystem for booking and riding in autonomous ridesharing vehicles. The ecosystem of technologies consisted of prototypes of a mobile application, a web application, an in-vehicle human-machine interface, an external human-machine interface, and the vehicle interior design.

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“…From both a societal and business perspective it is important that older consumers can get to self-service facilities in order to perform as co-producers of services. New forms of mobility, such as ridesharing, may contribute to improving older consumer access to self-service facilities, but research suggests that a better understanding of the ridesharing needs of older adults is required (Payyanadan and Lee 2018).…”

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‘Consumption as Work’ - Questioning the Meaning of ‘Retirement’ in the Self-Service Economy

Nicholls

2020

Population Ageing

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This article contributes to the establishment of a new perspective in the debate on how to respond to the economic and social challenges of ageing society. It re-examines the productive activity of older people through the lens of the self-service economy and initiates a discussion on how the self-service economy can be leveraged to help deal with some of the challenges created by an ageing population. The article’s main argument is built on the growing importance of self-service and the potential for older consumers to engage in such production/consumption. The substantial efficiency gains surrounding increased levels of self-service are illustrated. The potential of the retired population engaging in self-service and thus dampen the life cycle deficit is highlighted. Self-service activity by older consumers is presented as a type of productive activity and as forming part of older people’s contribution to society. It is argued that the growing self-service nature of consumption brings the meaning of ‘retirement’ even further into question. The policy implications of self-service are explored and a wide range of suggestions for further research areas related to self-service and the older consumer are put forward.

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Understanding the ridesharing needs of older adults

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

The Future and Sustainability of Carpooling Practices. An Identification of Research Challenges

The Future and Sustainability of Carpooling Practices. An Identification of Research Challenges

An Accessible Autonomous Vehicle Ridesharing Ecosystem

‘Consumption as Work’ - Questioning the Meaning of ‘Retirement’ in the Self-Service Economy

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