UK Pre-Trial Survey on Autonomous Shuttle Safety, Trust, and Acceptance

A 2026 pre-trial survey of 922 travellers at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, UK, assessed public attitudes towards autonomous shuttles. The survey examined demographics, travel behaviour, willingness to ride under four supervision scenarios, and perceived barriers and benefits. It was authored by Hisham Y. Makahleh and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling willingness to ride based on operational scenarios with varying human supervision.
• Analyzing the relationship between attitudinal components (psychological perceptions and service expectations) and acceptance.
• Identifying key barriers (safety, trust, reliability) and benefits (environmental friendliness, reliability) to autonomous shuttle adoption.
• Studying travel behaviour patterns, such as car dependency and solo travel, among potential users.

Strengths

• Survey includes a substantial sample size of 922 respondents.
• Analysis identified two attitudinal components explaining 62% of the variance in responses.
• Provides specific acceptance rates for four distinct operational scenarios (e.g., 95% for driver+steward, 31% for staff-free).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is contained in a 29.9 KB DOCX file, suggesting a limited scope, likely summary results rather than raw response data.

Provenance

Source

Hisham Y. Makahleh via figshare

Collection Method

Pre-trial survey conducted with travellers at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 22:01:44; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Birmingham, United Kingdom