Before and after riding: changing comfort attitude towards autonomous shuttles from perspectives as riders, drivers, and pedestrians

IF 6.8 1区工程技术 Q1 ECONOMICS

Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI:10.1016/j.tra.2025.104613

Keke Long , Xiaowei Shi , Yang Li , Zhiwei Chen , Yuan Wang , Xiaopeng Li

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Abstract

Automated vehicle (AV) shuttles are emerging mobility technologies that have been widely piloted and deployed. Public attitude is critical to the deployment progress and the overall social benefits of automated vehicle (AV) technologies. The AV shuttle demonstration was regarded as a good way for possible attitude improvements. However, not all existing AV shuttle technologies are mature and reliable enough. Some frustrating uncomfortable issues in AV shuttle demonstrations may adversely affect public attitudes toward AV technologies. Studying the impact of the comfort of the demonstration on attitudinal change can help us provide guidance for future demonstrations. Thanks to the AV shuttle project piloted at Dunedin, Florida, this paper interviewed 161 people before and after taking an open road AV shuttle ride. In addition to the participant’s demographic information, driving-related information, and psychological-related information, we collected the AV shuttles’ operation status (e.g., abrupt brake). A series of discrete outcome models were employed to estimate the factors influencing people’s initial opinions before the AV shuttle ride and people’s attitudes change after the ride. The most important finding is that an unsatisfactory riding experience could negatively affect participants’ attitudes toward AV shuttles. Particularly, the number of abrupt brakes raises more concerns when the participants are drivers who share the rights of way with the AV shuttle compared to when the participants are pedestrians or AV shuttle riders. Moreover, the participants’ attitudes toward sharing public space with AV shuttles as pedestrians and human drivers exhibited more negative changes compared with simply riding on AV shuttles. These results improve our understanding of public attitudes toward the existing AV technologies and help identify new opportunities to improve AV technology adoption.

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乘车前后：从乘客、司机和行人的角度改变对自动驾驶班车的舒适态度

自动驾驶汽车（AV）是一种新兴的交通技术，已经得到了广泛的试点和部署。公众的态度对自动驾驶汽车（AV）技术的部署进展和整体社会效益至关重要。AV航天飞机的演示被认为是一种可能改善姿态的好方法。然而，并不是所有现有的AV穿梭技术都足够成熟和可靠。在自动驾驶航天飞机演示中，一些令人沮丧的不舒服的问题可能会对公众对自动驾驶技术的态度产生不利影响。研究演示舒适性对态度变化的影响有助于我们为未来的演示提供指导。得益于在佛罗里达州达尼丁试点的自动驾驶巴士项目，本文采访了161名在开放道路上乘坐自动驾驶巴士前后的人。除了参与者的人口统计信息、驾驶相关信息和心理相关信息外，我们还收集了自动驾驶汽车的运行状态（如突然刹车）。采用一系列离散结果模型来估计人们乘坐自动驾驶汽车班车前的初始意见和乘坐自动驾驶汽车班车后态度变化的影响因素。最重要的发现是，不满意的乘坐体验会对参与者对自动驾驶班车的态度产生负面影响。特别是，当参与者是与自动驾驶班车共享通行权的司机时，与参与者是行人或自动驾驶班车乘客时相比，突然刹车的次数引起了更多的关注。此外，与单纯乘坐自动驾驶汽车相比，参与者作为行人和人类驾驶员对与自动驾驶汽车共享公共空间的态度出现了更多的负面变化。这些结果提高了我们对公众对现有自动驾驶技术的态度的理解，并有助于确定提高自动驾驶技术采用的新机会。

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Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice 工程技术-运输科技

CiteScore

13.20

自引率

7.80%

发文量

257

审稿时长

9.8 months

期刊介绍： Transportation Research: Part A contains papers of general interest in all passenger and freight transportation modes: policy analysis, formulation and evaluation; planning; interaction with the political, socioeconomic and physical environment; design, management and evaluation of transportation systems. Topics are approached from any discipline or perspective: economics, engineering, sociology, psychology, etc. Case studies, survey and expository papers are included, as are articles which contribute to unification of the field, or to an understanding of the comparative aspects of different systems. Papers which assess the scope for technological innovation within a social or political framework are also published. The journal is international, and places equal emphasis on the problems of industrialized and non-industrialized regions. Part A''s aims and scope are complementary to Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Part C: Emerging Technologies and Part D: Transport and Environment. Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. The complete set forms the most cohesive and comprehensive reference of current research in transportation science.