NCT04720300

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

Using a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Travel App's Influence on College Student Commuting to Campus

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 450 (actual)
• Sponsor: Florida Atlantic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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

• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	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.
OTHER	No app	students receive no app or housing information

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-12-31
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2021-01-22
• Last updated: 2024-05-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States