PostCarWorld

Policy decisions in many developed countries, especially for urban areas, tend to favor car reducing and pedestrian-friendly environments to reduce urban traffic congestion and improve the overall transportation network efficiency. In fact, a technological and behavioral transformation is already under way towards a world with a reduced role of privately owned and operated cars, which are substituted by various forms of shared mobility. The investigation of temporal rhythms in activity scheduling, the reshaping in time organization and mobility tool ownership plays a key role in understanding travel behavior in a world with restricted car ownership and usage, including carsharing and carpooling as potential mode alternatives. The main research question addressed by this study is to what degree individuals would change travel modes, time allocation and activity patterns after experiencing large changes in generalized transportation costs and how they would react regarding their longer-term ownership in mobility tools, assessing radical pricing effects from an activity-based perspective. The empirical basis is a multi-day travel and online diary that is required to obtain the personalized reference values for the later stated choice and stated adaptation tasks.