The benefits of the sharing economic solutions from a user’s perspective

How is the implementation of public transport services perceived by the public in the context of the sharing economy? What social and economic elements determine their development? The task of this article is to look for answers to questions formulated in this way. A quantitative method was used to conduct the research; the technique that was used was the CASI online survey. Profitability calculations were carried out and compared for three variants of vehicle use: rented, new and used. The deadlines for exceeding the profitability thresholds were set under the assumed preconditions for the analyzed variants. The results that were obtained provided an assessment of the customers’ opinions on the use of elements of the sharing economy in public passenger transport, and enabled the formulation of determinants of the popularization of these solutions as well as a determination of the cost-effectiveness thresholds for practical applications.