Exploring the Potential of Using Privately-Owned, Self-Driving Autonomous Vehicles for Evacuation Assistance

Table 1

Summary statistics of selected variables and relationship with evacuation sharing variable

Variable	Total	Min	Max	Mean	S. dev	Parameters	S. err
Dependent variable
Willingness to share AV for evacuation	518	1	5	3.409	1.603	—	—
Independent variables
Demographics
Gender: womenfemale	518	0	1	0.494	0.500	0.038	0.158
High income ( per year)	518	0	1	0.288	0.453	−0.120	0.175
Household size	512	1	5	2.740	1.207	0.010	0.066
Educated with a 4-year degree or more	518	0	1	0.508	0.500	0.008	0.158
Age 65 or older	518	0	1	0.168	0.374	−0.754	0.213
Income under per year	518	0	1	0.077	0.267	−0.504	0.296
Unemployed	518	0	1	0.071	0.258	0.646	0.320
Race: white/caucasian	518	0	1	0.689	0.463	0.011	0.171
Living in urban area	518	0	1	0.110	0.313	0.202	0.255
Technology
Use of ride-hailing services 8+ times in past year	518	0	1	0.168	0.374	0.671	0.219
0 or 1 social media accounts	518	0	1	0.214	0.411	−0.886	0.195
High comfort in AV deliveries in 5 years	518	0	1	0.514	0.500	0.993	0.163
High comfort in sharing AV for income in 5 years	518	0	1	0.108	0.311	1.144	0.280
High number of technology features on newest vehicle	501	0	1	0.158	0.365	−0.279	0.220
Evacuation experience
Household evacuation experience	518	0	1	0.322	0.468	0.105	0.170
Experience evacuating with friends/family	167	0	1	0.144	0.352	1.925	0.498
Received evacuation assistance from friends/family	167	0	1	0.329	0.471	1.346	0.321
Giving and volunteering
Giving to charitable causes more than once per year	518	0	1	0.635	0.482	0.382	0.165
Volunteering more than once per year	518	0	1	0.508	0.500	0.527	0.160
Experience giving any disaster relief assistance	518	0	1	0.629	0.483	1.070	0.168
Experience giving to assist friends/family in disaster relief efforts	518	0	1	0.259	0.438	0.514	0.184
Takes religious trips during a typical week	518	0	1	0.334	0.472	0.458	0.170
Commuting
Commuting by single-occupancy vehicle	335	0	1	0.833	0.374	−0.281	0.267
Commute length	324	10	60	23.386	13.825	−0.005	0.007
Regular weekly commute schedule	335	0	1	0.684	0.466	−0.126	0.213

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