TY  - JOUR
T1  - Measuring Attitude of a University’s Employees Towards Carpooling
AU - Srivatsa, H.S. AU - Safwan, Mohammed AU - Umraz Aqib, Syed 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 14
IS  - 22
SP  - 8187
EP  - 8195
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2019.8187.8195
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2019.8187.8195
KW  - employee’s
KW  -university
KW  -institution
KW  -Carpool
KW  -attitude
KW  -India
AB  - Growing traffic congestion has slowed down the movement of traffic in India cities and the
congestion has been attributed to growing population resulting in gorwth in number of vehicles plying on the
road, poor infrastructure and non compliance of traffic rules along with other factors. Single driver driven cars
and four wheelers have increased on Indian roads due to increase in car and four wheeler ownership thereby
contributing to more space being occupied on roads but with less number of people being transported in the
process. This has necessitated initiatives by government to promote car/taxi sharing. Many taxi agrregators
have also sensed business opportunities and have introduced sharing taxi as a method of transport. Many of
the organisations have also tried to inculcate the habit of carpoopling among their employee’s with varied
degree of success. This research study was conducted to measure the attitude of employee’s of a university
towards carpooling with an intent to propose a plan to introduce carpooling for its campus. The researched
location of the Bangalore based university is characterized by knowledge workers, connected by public bus
transport largely to central business districts but only for a few residential locations. The campus under
consideration is situated in an industrial manufacturing zone of Bangalore. Focus group discussions were
conducted to understand the perception of employee’s towards carpooling and variables that influenced
carpooling have been selected both from focus group discussions and literature review. Data was collected from
165 employee’s through a questionnaire designed after conducting the focus group discussions. Exploratory
factor analysis was used to understand the attitude of the employee’s towards carpooling. Six factors were
discovered namely-core benefit seekers, implementers, travel companionship, role neutrality, walk the extra mile
and security. Discriminant analysis was used to discriminate between potential car poolers from avoiders and
to predict the willingness of employees to adopt carpooling. Willingness to initiate the car pool and commitment
towards carpooling were the key discriminating variables between potential carpoolers and avoiders. The
analysis revealed that potential to implement carpool was high in the university. Further research could lead
to propagation of carpooling across various institutions. This research explored the possibility of carpooling
by studying the attitude of employee’s of an university in Bangalore. The literature revealed that there are few
studies that has been done to explore attitude towards carpooling and research in India is scant. Since, there
are sufficient number of universities and institutions in urban metros in India this research offers scope to
explore and propagate carpooling which can decrease congestion on roads and make driving less stressful and
protect the environment to some extent.
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