Evaluating a Travel App's Influence on College Student Commuting to Campus

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

450 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-02-01

Study Completion Date

2023-12-31

Brief Summary

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The Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT) portion of the study will focus on evaluating the use of information, marketing, and incentives to shape student travel behavior to campus through the three channels identified in Ajzen's (1991) framework.

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Detailed Description

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The investigators will evaluate whether a package of information, marketing, and incentives shifts student travel behavior to campus over one year, and in turn if these shifts in travel behavior result in improved academic performance.

Specific objectives of the cRCT include evaluating whether the intervention results in relatively:

1. Greater utilization of travel modes alternative to single-occupant vehicle travel (transit, biking, walking, bike-sharing, electric scooters, and carpooling)
2. Lower rates of car ownership
3. Superior college performance--higher grade point averages (GPAs)
4. More credit hours completed
5. Higher retention rates

Conditions

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Health Behavior

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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MaaS app

The Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) App will be provided to students in the Intervention Group and is intended to facilitate their use of alternative transportation modes such as public transit, ride-hailing, walking, biking, bike share, and e-scooter share to get to campus. The MaaS App will be downloaded to students' smartphones and will provide real-time, multimodal trip planning to students on demand when they open the app. This means, for instance, that a student can plan a trip that includes driving to a train station, taking the train, and then walking from the alighting train station to their final destination. The app will be white label, i.e. it will have a customized look and feel specific to the participating south Florida colleges, and it will have personalization features so that students can tailor the app to their travel patterns. Students in a cluster assigned to the MaaS group will also receive information concerning housing options. Students complete surveys

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

MaaS app

Intervention Type OTHER

The MaaS App will be downloaded to students' smartphones and will provide real-time, multimodal trip planning to students on demand when they open the app.

No app

Students receive no app, no housing information, students complete surveys.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

No app

Intervention Type OTHER

students receive no app or housing information

Interventions

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MaaS app

The MaaS App will be downloaded to students' smartphones and will provide real-time, multimodal trip planning to students on demand when they open the app.

Intervention Type OTHER

No app

students receive no app or housing information

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Students who live off-campus and attend any of the following three colleges or universities: Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Broward College (BC), or Palm Beach State College (PBSC).
* Students must plan to be at the same institution for the next academic year.