SEGMENT: Applicability of an Existing Segmentation Technique to TDM Social Marketing Campaigns in the United States
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Social marketing seeks to develop and integrate marketing concepts with other approaches to influence behaviors that benefit individuals and communities for the greater social good (International Social Marketing Association, 2013). Social marketing is a useful transportation demand management (TDM) planning approach to promote travel behavior change, and integrates several distinguishing features which set it apart from other popular behavior change planning approaches, such as education and mass media campaigns. These features include a focus on socially beneficial behavior change, a strong consumer orientation, the use of audience segmentation techniques and the selection of target audiences, the use of marketing’s conceptual framework (marketing mix and exchange theory), the recognition of competition, and continual marketing research. The purpose of the proposed study is to explore a consumer market segmentation technique (SEGMENT) successfully used in Europe for its applicability to social marketing campaigns in Florida. The SEGMENT project has developed a replicable and transferable market segmentation model to be used by all of the EU’s 27 member states when designing social marketing campaigns to persuade people to change their travel behavior and adopt more energy-efficient forms of transport (Intelligent Energy Europe, 2015). The SEGMENT project analyzed over 10,000 comprehensive attitudinal surveys containing over 100 questions to generate eight main attitudinal segments useful for the design of mobility social marketing campaigns; additional analysis produced eighteen ‘golden questions’ representing the smallest number of survey questions required to reproduce the eight market segments (Intelligent Energy Europe, 2015). The proposed study will replicate the SEGMENT methodology to determine whether the ‘golden questions’ accurately segment markets in Florida. Individuals will be surveyed using the long list of questions and discriminate analysis will be applied to identify the most powerful questions between the segments. Major contributions of this project will be the validation of a successful existing segmentation technique for applicability in the State of Florida, which will maximize the impact of TDM social marketing campaigns on changing travel behavior.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $214,765
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Contract Numbers:
NITC 1057
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590Florida Department of Transportation
605 Suwannee Street
Tallahassee, FL United States 32399-0450 -
Managing Organizations:
TREC at Portland State University
1900 SW Fourth Ave, Suite 175
P.O. Box 751
Portland, Oregon United States 97201 -
Project Managers:
Hagedorn, Hau
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Performing Organizations:
University of South Florida, Tampa
Center for Urban Transportation Research
3650 Spectrum Boulevard
Tampa, FL United States 33612-9446 -
Principal Investigators:
Lester, Amy
Winters, Philip
- Start Date: 20160801
- Expected Completion Date: 20180630
- Actual Completion Date: 20181001
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
- Source Data: N/A
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Data segmentation; Marketing; Social media; Surveys; Travel behavior; Travel demand management
- Geographic Terms: Florida; United States
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01607650
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: National Institute for Transportation and Communities
- Contract Numbers: NITC 1057
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Aug 16 2016 10:16AM