However, environmental benefits are of little importance in the car purchase decision, which is principally driven by price characteristics, performance and convenience attributes.
Disincentives on car use, parking incentives on carpooling, and comfort and convenience attributes are major motives for travelers to use carpooling service.
The reviewed preference valuation studies unveiled that environmental benefits are of minor importance for the adoption of AFVs, which is principally driven by price characteristics, performance and convenience attributes.
Survey and modeling results reveal that social, environmental and economic benefits, disincentives on car use, preferential parking treatment for carpooling, and comfort and convenience attributes are significant determinants in promoting carpooling.
These reviewed CM studies reveal that the most critical factors for the adoption of AFVs are price characteristics (e.g., purchase price, fuel costs) [3,26,29,33,72,79], followed by performance and convenience attributes (e.g., driving range, recharging times, fuel availability) [13,14,21,24,27,29,33,42,72,79].
As the needs that drive these chains basically relate to consumer's search for convenience attributes, low price and wide choice (Table 1), one more factor that pushes towards their complexity and variety is the focus on catching the diverse and changing demand trends.
Furthermore, as PHEV are not as reliant on the charging network as BEV, it may be that the impact of charging availability on the convenience attribute is over-estimated.
A strong and consistent finding that emerged in each group was the advantage of participant convenience attributed to online communication.
I just wish that my allies of convenience would attribute my views to me personally, and not by inference to The Times institutionally.
Convenience was attributed to the polypill in several ways including reduction in the number of pills taken per day, a decrease for some in the frequency of times a day pills were taken and fewer packages to transport and store (quote 2).
Which service attributes (convenience? friendliness?) does the firm target for excellence?
