Smartphone Applications to Influence Travel Choices: Practices and Policies: Practices and Policies

This primer is intended to demonstrate how vital smartphones are becoming to the transportation network and provide public agencies, transportation managers, and elected officials with a perspective and understanding the role of smartphones in identifying services and choices for individuals and influencing travel behavior. Whether a sophisticated or new adapter to smart phones, this publication provides the foundation to maximize the value of this new technology as well as a history of how the technology has developed and could benefit commuters. This report also outlines the challenges including protecting consumer privacy and data that is more widely available through thie smartphone apps .

Audiences: Business and personal users of smart phones, telecommunications experts and students, telemarketers, cyber-security administrators, and commuters may benefit from this report. 

Other products that may be of interest: 

YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computercan be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01071-4

Transportation Security collectioncan be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/security-defense-law-enforcement/transportation-security

Other publications produced by theUnited States Department of Transportationcan be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/199