Health Behavior
Conditions
Keywords
Students, Transportation, Academic achievement, Behavior
Brief 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
Interventions
OTHERMaaS 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.
OTHERNo app
students receive no app or housing information
Sponsors
Florida Atlantic University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Students who live off-campus and attend any of the following three colleges or universities: Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Broward College (BC), or Palm Beach State College (PBSC). * Students must plan to be at the same institution for the next academic year.
Exclusion criteria
* Students live on campus * Students will leave their current institution within the next academic year
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in credit hours earned. | one academic year | Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or students who do not own vehicles |
| Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increased grade point averages. | one academic year | Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or who do not own vehicles |
| The rate of students using alternative modes increases. | one academic year | Percentage of trips taken to campus by alternative modes. Will students in the intervention group, subject to information and marketing incentives as delivered through a MaaS app, be more likely to use alternative modes to reach campus? |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in degree completion. | one academic year | Number of studentswho make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or students or do not own vehicles |
| The rate of students who own vehicles should decrease. | one academic year | Student car ownership--Will students in the intervention group, subject to information and marketing incentives as delivered through a MaaS app, reduce their level of car reliance? |
| Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in retention. | one academic year | Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or who do not own vehicles |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-Reported BMI | one academic year | Number of students reporting BMI within CDC Healthy guidelines increases. |
| Self-reported general health | one academic year | Number of students reporting general health as good, very good, or excellent increases |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed