Assessing the Impact of New Mobility Services on Travel Behaviour: İstanbul Case

Abstract

There has been a paradigm shift in urban mobility around the developments in information and communication technologies, zero emission targets to reduce transport-related emissions. Hence, traditional transportation services are replaced by sustainable, shared, smart, innovative mobility services. It is crucial to understand what extent these services, which are increasingly used in the cities and have potential to become a part of the main transportation system of the city rather than serving as an alternative mode of transportation, affect people's travel behaviors and daily activity preferences to be aware of the trends in urban mobility, passenger and freight mobility. By this study, new mobility services such as micromobility, car and ride sharing services used in Istanbul examined in the context of (1) their effect on travel behavior (2) the relationship between people's demographic, socioeconomic status and new transportation service use (3) the conditions where the adoption of these services are higher. In this study, survey was conducted with a sample of 404 people in Istanbul and the results were interpreted using both explanatory analysis methods and the chi-square independence test as a statistical method. As a result of the study, questions such as what is the relationship between the demographics, travel behaviors and the use of new mobility services, the effect of these services on the total trips, transportation modes replaced by them, in which situations they are preferred or not and under what conditions those who do not use this service can use them were answered