TY - JOUR
T1 - Users of different travel modes differ in journey satisfaction and habit strength but not environmental worldviews
T2 - a large-scale survey of drivers, walkers, bicyclists and bus users commuting to a UK university
AU - Thomas, Gregory Owen
AU - Walker, Ian
PY - 2015/10/12
Y1 - 2015/10/12
N2 - People who travel to the same university workplace by bicycle, bus, car, and walking were compared in a survey (N = 1609). Data are presented on environmental worldviews, journey affective appraisals, and habit strength. Unexpectedly, findings showed comparable levels of environmental worldview across modes. This might reflect the role of attitudes on behaviour, or question the validity of the established environmental worldview scale used here. Results also replicated previous work on affective appraisal, and suggested that whilst walking, bicycling and bus use have distinctive affective appraisals associated with each mode, car driving was affectively neutral, generating no strong response on any dimension - a finding tentatively explained with reference to the normative status of driving. The survey also showed users of active travel modes reported stronger habit strength than car or public transport users, with possible links to the role of affect in formulating habit strength in line with habit theory.
AB - People who travel to the same university workplace by bicycle, bus, car, and walking were compared in a survey (N = 1609). Data are presented on environmental worldviews, journey affective appraisals, and habit strength. Unexpectedly, findings showed comparable levels of environmental worldview across modes. This might reflect the role of attitudes on behaviour, or question the validity of the established environmental worldview scale used here. Results also replicated previous work on affective appraisal, and suggested that whilst walking, bicycling and bus use have distinctive affective appraisals associated with each mode, car driving was affectively neutral, generating no strong response on any dimension - a finding tentatively explained with reference to the normative status of driving. The survey also showed users of active travel modes reported stronger habit strength than car or public transport users, with possible links to the role of affect in formulating habit strength in line with habit theory.
KW - Affect
KW - Environmental worldviews
KW - Habit
KW - Health
KW - Transport choice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84941283390&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2015.07.016
U2 - 10.1016/j.trf.2015.07.016
DO - 10.1016/j.trf.2015.07.016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84941283390
SN - 1369-8478
VL - 34
SP - 86
EP - 93
JO - Transportation Research Part F - Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
JF - Transportation Research Part F - Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
ER -