Abstract
Islamabad, being the capital of Pakistan, is attracting every business. Thus, the city is growing towards traffic congestion as the city’s car ownership rate is rapidly growing. In such a situation, for successful implementation, the policymakers need to understand the public acceptance of carpooling services based on its key motives and constraints. This research explores the key motives and constraints to the introduction scenarios of carpooling service in Islamabad. A stated preference questionnaire survey was conducted via Google Form comprising several parts relating to carpooling. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were processed, and a structural model was developed. Females (both single and married) were less orientated to carpool with males and married males with females. Unknown carpooling partners negatively influenced the factor of intention to shift to carpooling service. Our study provides policymakers and transport planners with an appropriate forecasting model of significant factors. In addition, it provides suggestions to transport planners to design promotional tools to enhance the tendency of carpooling among private car users in favor of reducing traffic congestion and increased car ownership rate in the city.
Highlights
Brief historyThe term carpooling is widely used since the 1970s in response to the oil crises at that time
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) is a set of programming items and associated services for statistical analysis, presented by the International Business Machines Corporation IBM [56]
If we look at the graphical representation of the single males’ data, their result is skewed negatively, which predicts that unmarried males are more oriented towards carpooling with female partners
Summary
Brief historyThe term carpooling is widely used since the 1970s in response to the oil crises at that time. In the early days of World War I when the USA met the economic declines, car owners started offering seats in their cars [1, 2]. This step got much success for short times, and the car manufacturers were affected very badly. Companies like Uber, Careem, Swvl, BlaBlaCar, Lyftshare, and Zimride are saturating the market day to day. Through these mobile applications, one can request a ride while sitting at his workplace.
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