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Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards
Current mobility patterns over-rely on transport modes that do not benefit sustainable and healthy lifestyles. To explore the potential for active mobility, we conducted a randomized experiment aimed at increasing regular commuter cycling in cities. In designing the experiment, we teamed up with dev...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7503873/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32825070 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176033 |
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author | Máca, Vojtěch Ščasný, Milan Zvěřinová, Iva Jakob, Michal Hrnčíř, Jan |
author_facet | Máca, Vojtěch Ščasný, Milan Zvěřinová, Iva Jakob, Michal Hrnčíř, Jan |
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description | Current mobility patterns over-rely on transport modes that do not benefit sustainable and healthy lifestyles. To explore the potential for active mobility, we conducted a randomized experiment aimed at increasing regular commuter cycling in cities. In designing the experiment, we teamed up with developers of the “Cyclers” smartphone app to improve the effectiveness of the app by evaluating financial and non-financial motivational features. Participants in the experiment were recruited among new users of the app, and were randomly assigned to one of four different motivational treatments (smart gamification, two variants of a financial reward, and a combination of smart gamification and a financial reward) or a control group (no specific motivation). Our analysis suggests that people can be effectively motivated to engage in more frequent commuter cycling with incentives via a smartphone app. Offering small financial rewards seems to be more effective than smart gamification. A combination of both motivational treatments—smart gamification and financial rewards—may work the same or slightly better than financial rewards alone. We demonstrate that small financial rewards embedded in smartphone apps such as “Cyclers” can be effective in nudging people to commute by bike more often. |
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spelling | pubmed-75038732020-09-27 Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards Máca, Vojtěch Ščasný, Milan Zvěřinová, Iva Jakob, Michal Hrnčíř, Jan Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Current mobility patterns over-rely on transport modes that do not benefit sustainable and healthy lifestyles. To explore the potential for active mobility, we conducted a randomized experiment aimed at increasing regular commuter cycling in cities. In designing the experiment, we teamed up with developers of the “Cyclers” smartphone app to improve the effectiveness of the app by evaluating financial and non-financial motivational features. Participants in the experiment were recruited among new users of the app, and were randomly assigned to one of four different motivational treatments (smart gamification, two variants of a financial reward, and a combination of smart gamification and a financial reward) or a control group (no specific motivation). Our analysis suggests that people can be effectively motivated to engage in more frequent commuter cycling with incentives via a smartphone app. Offering small financial rewards seems to be more effective than smart gamification. A combination of both motivational treatments—smart gamification and financial rewards—may work the same or slightly better than financial rewards alone. We demonstrate that small financial rewards embedded in smartphone apps such as “Cyclers” can be effective in nudging people to commute by bike more often. MDPI 2020-08-19 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7503873/ /pubmed/32825070 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176033 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Máca, Vojtěch Ščasný, Milan Zvěřinová, Iva Jakob, Michal Hrnčíř, Jan Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards |
title | Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards |
title_full | Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards |
title_fullStr | Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards |
title_full_unstemmed | Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards |
title_short | Incentivizing Commuter Cycling by Financial and Non-Financial Rewards |
title_sort | incentivizing commuter cycling by financial and non-financial rewards |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7503873/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32825070 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176033 |
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