Using a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Travel App's Influence on College Student Commuting to Campus
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 450
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in credit hours earned.
研究概览
简要总结
The Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT) portion of the study will focus on evaluating the use of information, marketing, and incentives to shape student travel behavior to campus through the three channels identified in Ajzen's (1991) framework.
详细描述
The investigators will evaluate whether a package of information, marketing, and incentives shifts student travel behavior to campus over one year, and in turn if these shifts in travel behavior result in improved academic performance.
Specific objectives of the cRCT include evaluating whether the intervention results in relatively:
- Greater utilization of travel modes alternative to single-occupant vehicle travel (transit, biking, walking, bike-sharing, electric scooters, and carpooling)
- Lower rates of car ownership
- Superior college performance--higher grade point averages (GPAs)
- More credit hours completed
- Higher retention rates
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Students who live off-campus and attend any of the following three colleges or universities: Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Broward College (BC), or Palm Beach State College (PBSC).
- •Students must plan to be at the same institution for the next academic year.
排除标准
- •Students live on campus
- •Students will leave their current institution within the next academic year
研究组 & 干预措施
MaaS app
The Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) App will be provided to students in the Intervention Group and is intended to facilitate their use of alternative transportation modes such as public transit, ride-hailing, walking, biking, bike share, and e-scooter share to get to campus. The MaaS App will be downloaded to students' smartphones and will provide real-time, multimodal trip planning to students on demand when they open the app. This means, for instance, that a student can plan a trip that includes driving to a train station, taking the train, and then walking from the alighting train station to their final destination. The app will be white label, i.e. it will have a customized look and feel specific to the participating south Florida colleges, and it will have personalization features so that students can tailor the app to their travel patterns. Students in a cluster assigned to the MaaS group will also receive information concerning housing options. Students complete surveys
干预措施: MaaS app (Other)
No app
Students receive no app, no housing information, students complete surveys.
干预措施: No app (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in credit hours earned.
时间窗: one academic year
Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or students who do not own vehicles
The rate of students using alternative modes increases.
时间窗: one academic year
Percentage of trips taken to campus by alternative modes. Will students in the intervention group, subject to information and marketing incentives as delivered through a MaaS app, be more likely to use alternative modes to reach campus?
Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increased grade point averages.
时间窗: one academic year
Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or who do not own vehicles
次要结局
- The rate of students who own vehicles should decrease.(one academic year)
- Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in degree completion.(one academic year)
- Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in retention.(one academic year)
研究者
John Renne
Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Director, Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions
Florida Atlantic University