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

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04720300
Recruitment Status : Not yet recruiting
First Posted : January 22, 2021
Last Update Posted : August 25, 2021
Sponsor:
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
John Renne, Florida Atlantic University

Study Description
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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.

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
Health Behavior Other: MaaS app Other: No app Not Applicable

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
Study Design
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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Estimated Enrollment : 6000 participants
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
Official Title: Using a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Travel App's Influence on College Student Commuting to Campus
Estimated Study Start Date : February 2022
Estimated Primary Completion Date : December 2022
Estimated Study Completion Date : May 2023

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Arms and Interventions
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Arm Intervention/treatment
Active Comparator: MaaS app
The Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) App will be provided to students in the Intervention Group and is intended to facilitate their use of alternative transportation modes such as public transit, ride-hailing, walking, biking, bike share, and e-scooter share to get to campus. 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. This means, for instance, that a student can plan a trip that includes driving to a train station, taking the train, and then walking from the alighting train station to their final destination. The app will be white label, i.e. it will have a customized look and feel specific to the participating south Florida colleges, and it will have personalization features so that students can tailor the app to their travel patterns. Students in a cluster assigned to the MaaS group will also receive information concerning housing options. Students complete surveys
 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.
Placebo Comparator: No app
Students receive no app, no housing information, students complete surveys.
 Other: No app
students receive no app or housing information


Outcome Measures
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Primary Outcome Measures :
  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 Outcome Measures :
  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 Outcome Measures:
  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


Eligibility Criteria
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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older   (Adult, Older Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   Yes
Criteria

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
Contacts and Locations
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT04720300


Contacts
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Contact: John L Renne, PhD 561-297-4279 jrenne@fau.edu
Contact: Serena A Hoermann, MBA 561-297-4279 shoermann@fau.edu

Sponsors and Collaborators
Florida Atlantic University
Investigators
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Principal Investigator: John L Renne, PhD Florida Atlantic University
  Study Documents (Full-Text)

Documents provided by John Renne, Florida Atlantic University:
Study Protocol  [PDF] June 22, 2021

More Information
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Responsible Party: John Renne, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Director, Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions, Florida Atlantic University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04720300    
Other Study ID Numbers: G-1905-283549
1588924-3 ( Other Identifier: FAU IRB )
First Posted: January 22, 2021    Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted: August 25, 2021
Last Verified: August 2021

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Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
Keywords provided by John Renne, Florida Atlantic University:
Students
Transportation
Academic achievement
Behavior