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In this paper, the user requirements for future autonomous mobility services, i.e. autonomous ridesharing and the potential influence of gender are investigated following a two-tiered procedure. Subsequently to interviews, a questionnaire study including 893 participants was conducted, in which attitudes and requirements were evaluated. It turned out that users are generally open to the new mobility service. Factors of the journey itself, such as the determination of routes and co-passengers were perceived as important, whereas the vehicle equipment and the entertainment facilities were rather unimportant. In general, almost no willingness to pay surcharges for an additional individualization of the service was determined. While men and women differ in terms of readiness to use and evaluation of the service, no differences were found in the requirements for booking options and the willingness to pay.
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The authors thank all participants for sharing opinions on a novel technology. Furthermore, thanks go to Susanne Gohr, Jennifer Kirstgen and Kevin Wegener for their research assistance, as well as to Philip Glass for inspiring the paper title.
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Philipsen, R., Brell, T., Ziefle, M. (2019). Carriage Without a Driver – User Requirements for Intelligent Autonomous Mobility Services. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93885-1_31
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