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Applicability of ridesharing using paratransits: a case study from a university community in Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Jayasinghe, RMTTB
dc.contributor.author Sivakumar, T
dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-17T21:00:23Z
dc.date.available 2018-09-17T21:00:23Z
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/13566
dc.description.abstract Recent increase in number of singly hired para-transit usage in Sri Lanka favors ride shared paratransit modes. Applicability of ridesharing is studied in a selected corridor by examining the attitude of the passengers and drivers. The undergraduates of University of Moratuwa (passengers) were selected as the population and one of the access road (between Katubedda junction and university) was selected as the study area with Three-Wheel (3W) mode as common para-transit mode in Sri Lanka. Structured questionnaire was used to gather users (3W passengers) preference and drivers willingness along with road side survey on 3W movements to study the existing situation in the study area. The study focused on effects of ridesharing on three aspects while identifying barriers for ridesharing implementation; (1) demand for 3W, (2) monetary benefit for 3W operators and (3) Environment. It is found that implementing ridesharing with pool of three passengers and with fare of LKR (Sri Lankan currency- Rupees) 20 (less than ⅓ of the current fare, LKR 70) per head; (1) increases 3W ridership by 42%, (2) increases daily profit of the drivers by 13.3% compared to the existing (average vehicle occupancy=1.4) operating cost and (3) Reduces emission cost per user by 50% per passenger. Barriers to ridesharing from users are reluctant to share rides with unknown passengers (stranger-danger) and also with opposite gender while that of from operators is the fear from peer operators like other 3W drivers and bus operators. Implementing ridesharing is certainly a win-win case for both users and operators. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject Ridesharing en_US
dc.subject Para transit en_US
dc.subject Three wheel en_US
dc.subject User behavior en_US
dc.subject Questionnaire survey en_US
dc.title Applicability of ridesharing using paratransits: a case study from a university community in Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Civil Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.year 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Transportation & the Environment en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos 347-357 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Conference on Transportation & the Environment en_US
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.31705/APTE.2014.32 en_US


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