Influence of information about trip time variability, personal benefits, and environmental harm from cars versus public transportation on the choice of transportation mode
The influence of information about trip time variability, personal benefits, or environmental harm from cars or public transportation on commuting mode choice (car or subway) is examined in an experimental study. In addition to these experimentallymanipulated variables, the influence of prior attitu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Murcia |
| Repositorio: | DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digitum.um.es:10201/144240 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10201/144240 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Attitudes Mode choice Actitudes Modo de transporte CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología::159.9 - Psicología |
| Sumario: | The influence of information about trip time variability, personal benefits, or environmental harm from cars or public transportation on commuting mode choice (car or subway) is examined in an experimental study. In addition to these experimentallymanipulated variables, the influence of prior attitudes towards the subway was verified. The sample is made up of habitual users of the car to travel to work (N= 220, age M= 37.4, SD = 8.1, 63.2% women). The results show that providing information aboutthe advantages of public transportation, as well as prior attitudes towards the subway, decrease the preference, choice, and perceived control of car use. Of the experimentally manipulated variables, infor-mation about the variability of trip time had the greatest influence. These results highlight the importance of taking into account these variables to implement institutional campaigns to reduce car use as transportation mode. |
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