Crowdshipping Participation Among Private Vehicle Users

Aditya Saxena, Deepjyoti Das, Alireza Ermagun and David Levinson
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David Levinson: TransportLab, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney

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Abstract: Keywords: Urban freight Crowd shipping Willingness to participate User participation Personality trait ICLV model This study investigates the determinants of willingness to participate in crowd shipping (WTP-CS) for the working population within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. It explores socioeconomic factors, personality traits, and travel correlates to WTP-CS by testing an integrated choice and latent variable (ICLV) modeling framework. Four conclusions are drawn. First, longer travel times and higher costs diminish WTP-CS, while economic incentives (e.g., free Wi-Fi services) are positively associated with WTP-CS. Second, lower-income individuals are positively inclined toward crowd shipping, while females and older individuals display less inclination toward crowd shipping. Third, increasing the number of services offered by crowd shippers nega­ tively affects WTP-CS. Fourth, individuals with higher levels of the openness personality trait exhibit a positive inclination toward WTP-CS, whereas those with higher conscientiousness tend to exhibit a more reserved attitude toward WTP-CS. The findings emphasize the role of individual traits in shaping participation behaviors in crowd shipping initiatives, and in contrast to most existing crowd shipping studies that focus on users or developedcountry contexts, provide new evidence on supply-side participation among working commuters in emerging markets in a less-studied region.

Keywords: transportation; road transport; freight transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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Published in Journal of Urban Mobility 9 100206

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DOI: 10.1016/j.urbmob.2026.100206

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