A single-blinded randomised controlled trial incentivising adults to increase public transport for health gain: The trips4health study

•It is unclear whether financial incentives increase public transport use.•The intervention increased public transport use in this COVID-19 interrupted trial.•Financial rewards may be a useful strategy for increasing public transport use.•Fully powered studies with longer term follow-up are warrante...

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Published in:Travel, behaviour & society behaviour & society, 2024-04, Vol.35, p.100732, Article 100732
Main Authors: Cleland, Verity J., Zhao, Ting, Stanesby, Oliver, Sharman, Melanie J., Ball, Kylie, Greaves, Stephen, Blizzard, Leigh, Cooper, Katie, Harpur, Siobhan, Lester, Dion, Morse, Megan, Palmer, Andrew, Venn, Alison, Wells, Gudrun, Williams, Julie, Jose, Kim A.
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Language:English
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Behaviour and Behaviour Mechanisms
Exercise
Public-Private Sector Partnerships
Translational Medical Research
Transportation Facilities
Walking
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Summary:•It is unclear whether financial incentives increase public transport use.•The intervention increased public transport use in this COVID-19 interrupted trial.•Financial rewards may be a useful strategy for increasing public transport use.•Fully powered studies with longer term follow-up are warranted. Incentives-based strategies can improve health behaviour. Public transport use confers individual- and societal-level public health gain but incentivising public transport has been under-explored. The study objective was to assess the effectiveness of financially incentivising public transport use from a public health perspective. trips4health was a single-blinded parallel group randomised controlled trial (RCT) conducted in Hobart, Australia. Participants were 18 + years and infrequent (
ISSN:2214-367X
DOI:10.1016/j.tbs.2023.100732