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NCT Number: NCT04720300

Evaluating a Travel App's Influence on College Student Commuting to Campus

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Health Behavior Behavior

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton, Florida, 33431, United States

About this study

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:

  • Greater utilization of travel modes alternative to single-occupant vehicle travel (transit, biking, walking, bike-sharing, electric scooters, and carpooling)
  • Lower rates of car ownership
  • Superior college performance--higher grade point averages (GPAs)
  • More credit hours completed
  • Higher retention rates

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

MaaS app

Other

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.

No app

Other

students receive no app or housing information

Primary outcomes

  1. The rate of students using alternative modes increases.

    Time frame: 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?

  2. Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increased grade point averages.

    Time frame: one academic year

    Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or who do not own vehicles

  3. Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in credit hours earned.

    Time frame: one academic year

    Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or students who do not own vehicles

Secondary outcomes

  1. The rate of students who own vehicles should decrease.

    Time frame: 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?

  2. Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in retention.

    Time frame: one academic year

    Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or who do not own vehicles

  3. Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in degree completion.

    Time frame: one academic year

    Number of studentswho make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or students or do not own vehicles

Other outcomes

  1. Self-Reported BMI

    Time frame: one academic year

    Number of students reporting BMI within CDC Healthy guidelines increases.

  2. Self-reported general health

    Time frame: one academic year

    Number of students reporting general health as good, very good, or excellent increases

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Florida Atlantic University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Using a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Travel App's Influence on College Student Commuting to Campus

Acronym: CTRAVELAPP

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Jan 22, 2021
Registry last updated
May 3, 2024

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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