“Would it be weird to live here without a car?”: Using social media to understand car ownership decisions

E Iacobucci - Transportation, 2024 - Springer
Transportation practitioners and scholars increasingly view car-free mobility as an essential
component of a sustainable, healthy, and safe transportation future. In the United States …

Travel in the digital age: Vehicle ownership and technology-facilitated accessibility

E Blumenberg, J Paul, G Pierce - Transport Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite their negative externalities, cars provide many benefits. Chief among these is the
ability to travel to destinations within a reasonable time budget. Consequently, in the US …

[HTML][HTML] Using social media to understand challenges faced by US urban parcel delivery drivers: Reports from the curb

E Iacobucci, N McDonald, CHW Edwards, R Steiner - Transport Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
While several studies have begun to quantify the problems presented by curb conflicts
surrounding delivery vehicles, especially unauthorized parking behavior, fewer have …

Disruption of individual mobility ahead? A longitudinal study of risk and benefit perceptions of self-driving cars on twitter

C Kohl, D Mostafa, M Böhm, H Krcmar - 2017 - aisel.aisnet.org
In this paper, we address the question if there is a disruption of individual mobility by self-
driving cars ahead. In order to answer this question, we take the user perspective and …

Carless in California: Green choice or misery?

SK Mitra, JDM Saphores - Journal of transport geography, 2017 - Elsevier
Approximately 1 million Californian households do not own a motor vehicle (hereafter a
“car”). These households, who are often forgotten in transportation policy discussions, can …

[HTML][HTML] In the driver's seat: Pathways to automobile ownership for lower-income households in the United States

NJ Klein, R Basu, MJ Smart - Transportation research interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine how lower-income households in the United States acquire automobiles.
Although car ownership plays a vital role in social and economic mobility in the US …

Driverless cars and the city: Sharing cars, not rides

W Cox - Cityscape, 2016 - JSTOR
A world of driverless cars seems likely to provide massively improved highway safety, better
mobility—especially for those with mobility disadvantages (such as the rising elderly …

[图书][B] Mobility fulfillment among low-car households: Implications for reducing auto dependence in the United States

K Lovejoy - 2012 - search.proquest.com
There is widespread interest in reducing vehicle-miles of travel as a policy goal. Any
progress toward that goal requires a better understanding of the potential for incremental …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring “automobility engagement”: A predictor of shared, automated, and electric mobility interest?

VH Gauer, J Axsen, E Dütschke, Z Long - Transportation Research Part D …, 2022 - Elsevier
Automobility theory investigates the prevalence of the privately-owned car, including
technology, infrastructure, and cultural elements. In an application of this theory, we …

[PDF][PDF] Detroiters' views on transportation and mobility

E Gerber, J Morenoff, C Smith - Detroit remains a driving city …, 2017 - detroitsurvey.umich.edu
For the nearly two-thirds of Detroiters who own a car, Detroit remains the Motor City. These
Detroiters rely on cars as their primary mode of transportation, rarely or never use public …