Sustainable the entire journey - increased understanding of perceptual factors to achieve seamless combined trips

Purpose and goal:

In Sweden, the share of combined bicycle and public transport trips accounts for approximately six percent of public transport trips and for approximately seven percent of bicycle trips, but the potential is much greater. The aim is to investigate which perceptual factors affect people´s experience of safety and control in combination trips with bicycle/electric scooter and public transport, to clarify which measures promote the traveler´s experience of a complete and seamless journey. The goal is a deeper understanding of the human perceptual experience in the transport system.

Expected results and effects:

The aim is that the collaborative constellation between the project´s parties (traffic experts and psychologists) will lead to new insights into how the individual´s perception and social processes affect combined journeys. This knowledge is combined with previously known factors about barriers in the infrastructure and lack of integrated coordination between different actors.

Based on the new insights, one or several concepts that facilitate combination travel will be proposed, which in the next step can be tested in a real environment. Approach and implementation: The project includes four work packages:

1. Explore the needs and preferences of the individual - qualitative study of factors that can improve the user experience. Includes literature study, interviews and focus groups. 2. Create seamless combination trips. Visualization of results AP1 and focus groups and workshop with key actors.

3. Concept description of combination travel and potential study for scaling up - develop concepts for how the new knowledge can be introduced into the existing real environment to increase combination travel. 4. Project management and communication.