An empirical evaluation of different usage pattern between car-sharing battery electric vehicles and private ones

Wanying Wang, Qiang Zhang, Zhanglin Peng, Zhen Shao and Xuefang Li

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2020, vol. 135, issue C, 115-129

Abstract: As a non-ownership business mode, a car-sharing service system has received an extensive popularization recently. Many related studies based on the theoretical and questionnaire analyses have confirmed the existence of differences in usage patterns between car-sharing users and private users. Nowadays, usage data provides a new way to analyze and understand the usage pattern of vehicles, which can improve user experience. To study the usage of car-sharing cars and private ones, namely, to study their usage patterns, this paper proposes an evaluation indicator system for usage pattern based on the battery electric vehicle (BEV) data. The evaluation indicator system is based on the state transition approach and describes the usage pattern of BEVs from three dimensions. The travel temporal and travel spatial dimensions describe the time and space characteristics of usage pattern. The decision-making dimension, as a cause of state transition at the micro level, describes the decision-making pattern according to a conceptual psychological model. Finally, an empirical study using the promotion is undertaken to explore differences in the performance of the two BEV types using the real-world usage data. Results show that the evaluation indicator system can identify the differences in usage pattern between car-sharing BEVs and private ones effectively and objectively from different perspectives.

Keywords: Evaluation indicator system; Battery electric vehicle; Car-sharing systems; Car usage pattern; Usage data analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2020.03.014

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