An Exploration of Household Response to Personal Travel Carbon-Reduction Targets

The potential behavioural effect of personal carbon trading: results from an experimental survey

“…These results are generally in line with ranges reported elsewhere in response to hypothetical measures (Brannlund and Nordstrom 2004;Lundin 2001;Parag et al 2011;Tight et al 2007), suggesting perhaps that there is a limit at around 20% for short-term reductions in carbon consumption.…”

Designing and Using Carbon Management Systems to Promote Ecologically Responsible Behaviors

“…However, evidence suggesting that CMS positively impact individual environmental behaviors exists (Froehlich et al, 2009;Tight, Vocat, Bristow, Pridmore, & May, 2007). For instance, Tight et al (2007) found that a 20 percent reduction in carbon emissions from landbased travel could be achieved by households when a CMS was used to summarize travel behavior and provide estimates of the carbon footprint resulting from changes in these behaviors. Nevertheless, many carbon calculators are not as effective as they could be due to weaknesses in usability, poor communication and presentation of carbon footprint calculations, limited social networking capabilities, absence of automated data inputs, and a lack of standard and transparent calculation methodologies (Bottrill, 2007;Froehlich et al, 2009;Padgett et al, 2008).…”

Toward Sustainable Transport: Conventional and Disruptive Approaches in the U.S. Context

“…There is broad recognition that substantive changes in the transport sector cannot be achieved through technical or behavioral changes alone (Tight, Vicat, Bristow, and Pridmore 2007;Potter 2007), but rather require a mix of innovations in policy, pricing, technology, and social marketing. Hoogma, Kemp, Schot, and Truffer (2002) assert that excessive attention to market mechanisms has resulted in the neglect of new or promising innovations in technology and policy that would advance sustainable development, even while new findings and insights from the fields of technology history, evolutionary economics, and constructive sociology have been ignored.…”