Australian baby boomers switched to more environment friendly modes of transport during the global financial crisis

Kamruzzaman, Md.; Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Washington, Simon; Currie, Graham; Turrell, Gavin

doi:10.1007/s13762-014-0564-5

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“…Many academic studies of the effects of the global economic crisis provide evidence that some changes in transport behaviour originated during the recessionary phases (Rothengatter, 2011;Sobrino and Monzón, 2014;Campos-Soria et al, 2015). In Australia, where the impact of the crisis was much lower than in other countries, the baby boomers switched to more environmentally friendly travel modes at the beginning of the financial crisis (Kamruzzaman et al, 2014). In Reykjavik, during the first months of the crisis, people modified their travel behaviour by reducing their trip frequencies and car use, using public transport more, and working more at home (Ulfarsson et al, 2015).…”

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Impacts of the economic crisis on household transport expenditure and public transport policy: Evidence from the Spanish case

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The objective of this paper is to assess the impacts of the economic crisis in Spain on the transport expenditure of households from 2006 to 2014 and how transport authorities reacted to cope with the decreasing public resources and transport demand. The approach is based on quantitative and qualitative sources of information: the Spanish Household Budget Survey and in-depth interviews with public transport policy makers from six metropolitan areas.Highlights 1. Household expenditure on transport fell from 15.9% of total expenditure to 13.2%.2. Only the poorest households increased their share of budget on transport.3. The purchase of new cars decreased notably from the very beginning of the crisis. 4. Public transport authorities tried to reduce costs and increase revenues.5. Adaptation to the crisis was easier for the wealthiest households and PT networks.

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Impacts of the economic crisis on household transport expenditure and public transport policy: Evidence from the Spanish case

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“…Note, however, that the relationships between transport and the environment or between land use and the environment is not always unidirectional rather it is more complex and interdependent (Lambin et al 2003;Koomen and Stillwell 2007;Kamruzzaman et al 2014). For example, an unprecedented heat wave in the summer of 2010 caused several travel disruption in the USA.…”

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Investigating the interplay between transport, land use and the environment: a review of the literature

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Kamruzzaman

2014

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Integration of land use and transport decisions to achieve sustainable travel behavior has been considered an integral element for sustainable urban development. However, before the popularity of urban sustainability concept, land use and transport interaction had been scrutinized as strictly separate entities in the urban planning and development domains. Fortunately, today the concept of sustainability has been pushed to the forefront of policy-making and politics as the world wakes up to the impacts of climate change and the effects of the rapid urbanization and modern urban lifestyles. The paper therefore aims to highlight the importance of the interplay between transport, land use and the environment. This review paper provides evidence from the literature including the Transport, Land Use and the Environment Special Issue contributions and global best practice cases to showcase new empirical approaches and investigations from different parts of the world that contribute to the wealth of knowledge in exploring the interplay between transport, land use and the environment thoroughly.

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“…Traditionally, the measures of deprivation have attempted to identify and assess these attributes [39]. These are often referred to as different dimensions (or domains) of deprivation such as economic, social, political, personal, living space, mobility impairment, and geographical isolation [8,29,[40][41][42][43][44].…”

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Measures of Transport-Related Social Exclusion: A Critical Review of the Literature

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Quantitative measures of transport disadvantage are reviewed in this paper from the perspective of their effectiveness to investigate social exclusion. The effectiveness is assessed using criteria derived through a review of the concepts of transport disadvantage and social exclusion and their operationalisation. The specified criteria are related to issues of spatial (e.g., urban accessibility, and public transport accessibility), temporal (e.g., public transport availability, and facility opening hours), and social attributes of travel and activity participation (e.g., personal mobility, and disability). Four groups of transport disadvantage measures are identified and evaluated. These include deprivation-based measures, mobility-based measures, accessibility-based measures, and activity-based measures. The review suggests that although the first three categories of measures have traditionally been used to identify transport disadvantage, they do not satisfy issues surrounding activity participation-the key outcome of social exclusion. The activity space concept is a way in which these issues can be incorporated, as it is a measure of the outcomes of activity participation and their associated travel to that activity. Participation in an activity means that an individual has overcome the spatial, temporal and social barriers of travel for that activity. The research using the activity space concept has, however, inadequately identified individual travel and activity participation. This has been due to a separate application of a range of different indicators to assess activity space size. These indicators are by their nature multidimensional-e.g., area visited, distance travelled, and number of activity sites visited. Although each indicator represents a specific qualitative/quantitative aspect of travel and activity participation, researchers have treated these indicators in an isolated manner to identify transport disadvantage and consequently transport-related social exclusion. This paper identifies the weaknesses and strengths associated with these measures; and methods are directed to overcome the limitations.

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Australian baby boomers switched to more environment friendly modes of transport during the global financial crisis

Cited by 19 publications

References 77 publications

Impacts of the economic crisis on household transport expenditure and public transport policy: Evidence from the Spanish case

Impacts of the economic crisis on household transport expenditure and public transport policy: Evidence from the Spanish case

Investigating the interplay between transport, land use and the environment: a review of the literature

Measures of Transport-Related Social Exclusion: A Critical Review of the Literature

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