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Piloting a Survey for Understanding Public Expectations Towards Autonomous Train Experiences as a Passenger
Vos, S.A.M. (2025) Piloting a Survey for Understanding Public Expectations Towards Autonomous Train Experiences as a Passenger.
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| Abstract: | With 5% of all inland transport being done by trains in Europe in 2020 and spanning over 250 billion kilometers of rail across the entirety of Europe, it has to keep improving to make sure it is capable of transporting all these people. In this study, public expectations towards an autonomous train experience were investigated. This study is divided into 2 parts. The first part is a literature analysis, and the second part included a the pilot of a survey study based on the findings of earlier research, but also included 2 videos of a train experience to see which the participant attributed a human driver to. The literature analysis found that people find safety and reliability the most important and prefer a level of automation where the train is autonomous, but there are still humans aboard in case of emergency. The survey results indicated significant effects of Risk and Attitude on the willingness to use trains (p = .003), and the opinion surrounding autonomous trains were largely in line with earlier research concerning the most important needs and concerns, except for the effect of previous experience with autonomous vehicles and influence of Age which were not found in this study. Overall, the public seems open to the use of autonomous trains in the future. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 55 traffic technology, transport technology, 70 social sciences in general, 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/107013 |
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