Travel satisfaction effects of changes in public transport usage

Abou-Zeid, Maya; Fujii, Satoshi

doi:10.1007/s11116-015-9576-3

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“…Focusing on public transport, for instance, this could be realized by making public transport routes and schedules more clear to public transport riders, improving comfort and service frequency, increasing public transport services outside urban areas and by providing temporary free public transport passes to habitual car users (creating a new context in which mode decisions happen more consciously (e.g., Fujii and Kitamura, 2003)). Doing so, this could not only increase overall travel satisfaction levels (e.g., Abou-Zeid and Fujii, 2016), but could in turn also improve people's subjective well-being and quality of life (De Vos, 2018;De Vos and Witlox, 2017;De Vos et al, 2013;Lancée et al, 2017).…”

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Do people travel with their preferred travel mode? Analysing the extent of travel mode dissonance and its effect on travel satisfaction

Vos

2018

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Numerous studies have indicated that travel mode choice is affected by travel-related attitudes. A positive stance towards a certain travel mode increases the probability that people will choose this mode for a particular trip. However, not a lot of studies have analysed whether people actually choose their preferred travel mode. In this paper we will look at whether respondents with a preference for car use, public transport use, cycling and walking will actually use these modes. Furthermore, we also analyse whether respondents who use their preferred travel mode (i.e., consonant travellers) are more satisfied with their trips compared to respondents travelling with a non-preferred travel mode (i.e., dissonant travellers). Results from this study, analysing leisure trips of 1,656 respondents from the city of Ghent (Belgium), indicate that about half of the respondents chooses a non-preferred travel mode and that dissonant travellers can be mainly found within public transport users and least within cyclists, partly due to relatively low levels of public transport attitudes and high levels of cycling attitudes. Furthermore, travel mode dissonance seems to have an important impact on travel satisfaction. Consonant travellers have above average travel satisfaction levels, independent of the used travel mode, while dissonant travellers (except dissonant pedestrians) have below average travel satisfaction levels. This suggests that using a preferred travel mode has at least an equally important impact on travel satisfaction than the chosen travel mode itself.

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Do people travel with their preferred travel mode? Analysing the extent of travel mode dissonance and its effect on travel satisfaction

Vos

2018

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…When habit was strong, no intention-behavior relation existed [37]. Therefore, policy makers should strive to change habits with appropriate information to strengthen the intention–behavior relation and apply good promotional offers to break the car habit choice [77] as soft measures or interventions for more public transport use has proven to be promising [78]. …”

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The Role of Personality Traits through Habit and Intention on Determining Future Preferences of Public Transport Use

Yazdanpanah

Hosseinlou

2017

Behavioral Sciences

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A complex set of factors may affect transportation mode choice. While earlier studies have often considered objective factors in determining preferences of public transport use as a sustainable transportation, subjective factors such as personality traits are underexplored. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the influence of personality traits on the number of future public transport use. Additionally, “car habit” and “intention toward using public modes” were considered to be important. For this purpose, a case study from departure passengers at Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA, Tehran, Iran) was conducted between January and February 2015 at IKIA. Results of structural equation modeling (SEM) shows that only neuroticism and extraversion personality traits were significant in determining future public transportation mode choice. However, the model indicates that these traits indirectly influence intention and car habit. Neuroticism was found to have a total effect of −0.022 on future public transport use, which represents a negative association with public transport use, while extraversion positively influenced future public transport use with a total effect of 0.031. Moreover, the results found interestingly that car access had a better fit to the data than the number of cars in household (NCH); both had significant positive effect on car habit, but only car access had a significant influence on intention. Furthermore, the effect of socio-demographic variables such as age, gender, educational level, income level, and body mass index (BMI) were determined to be significant in identifying choice of future transport mode to airports, which is explained in the discussion section of this paper.

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“…This result, however, does not assure the conclusion that car access and use had no or little effects on SWB in that the reduction in car use may result in a number of difficulties for car-dependent households [26]. However, a travel satisfaction survey of the changes in PT usage showed that the average level of satisfaction in commuting increased among the people who switched to PT, and this increase was sustained [27].…”

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Exploring the Effects of Car Ownership and Commuting on Subjective Well-Being: A Nationwide Questionnaire Study

2018

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How and to what extent household car ownership and commuting behavior affect individual subjective well-being (SWB) is of great interest for urban and transportation planning. Increasing attention has been paid to the associations between car ownership, commuting and SWB. However, only a limited number of studies examined the effects of travel-related factors on both cognitive and affective SWB aspects. This research empirically investigated the relationships from the two SWB aspects. Furthermore, we extend the modeling of generic cognitive SWB to several specific measures (e.g., satisfaction with life compared to a specific group of people, degree of free choice, social position, and social equality) to explore how car ownership and commuting behavior contribute to individual SWB. Drawing on the data derived from the 2014 China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey, a set of ordered probit models based on Bayesian inference are estimated. The findings point out that household car ownership has a significant effect on cognitive SWB but a limited influence on affective SWB. It appears that commuting time is significantly and negatively associated with individuals’ cognitive and affective well-being, whereas a positive correlation is found between the commuting by bicycle and affective SWB. The effects of commuting time and transportation modes on different measured satisfactions with life have no big differences. Finally, results of the Wald tests indicate that incorporating household car ownership and commuting behavior into the modeling framework can significantly improve the prediction accuracy of individual SWB.

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Travel satisfaction effects of changes in public transport usage

Cited by 41 publications

References 38 publications

Do people travel with their preferred travel mode? Analysing the extent of travel mode dissonance and its effect on travel satisfaction

Do people travel with their preferred travel mode? Analysing the extent of travel mode dissonance and its effect on travel satisfaction

The Role of Personality Traits through Habit and Intention on Determining Future Preferences of Public Transport Use

Exploring the Effects of Car Ownership and Commuting on Subjective Well-Being: A Nationwide Questionnaire Study

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