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

Health Behavior Clinical Trial

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Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04720300
• Other study ID #: G-1905-283549
• Secondary ID: 1588924-3
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Florida Atlantic University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 450
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Behavior

Intervention

Other:
• MaaS 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.
• No app
students receive no app or housing information

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Florida Atlantic University	Boca Raton	Florida

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Florida Atlantic University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Self-Reported BMI	Number of students reporting BMI within CDC Healthy guidelines increases.	one academic year
Other	Self-reported general health	Number of students reporting general health as good, very good, or excellent increases	one academic year
Primary	The rate of students using alternative modes increases.	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?	one academic year
Primary	Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increased grade point averages.	Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or who do not own vehicles	one academic year
Primary	Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in credit hours earned.	Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or students who do not own vehicles	one academic year
Secondary	The rate of students who own vehicles should decrease.	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?	one academic year
Secondary	Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in retention.	Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or who do not own vehicles	one academic year
Secondary	Number of students who make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus are associated with increases in degree completion.	Number of studentswho make more frequent use of alternative modes to campus or students or do not own vehicles	one academic year