Digital commuting: The effect of social normative feedback on e-bike commuting - Evidence from a field study

ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Flüchter, Kristina ^a   Wortmann, Felix ^b   Fleisch, Elgar ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Commuting; E bike; Social normative feedback; Travel mode choice

Indexed keywords

BICYCLES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMMUTING; E-BIKE; ELECTRIC BICYCLES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL DEMAND MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL MODE CHOICES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84905833837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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