Modeling the desire for using public transport

Vos, Jonas De; Waygood, E. Owen D.; Letarte, Laurence

doi:10.1016/j.tbs.2019.12.005

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“…In line with recent research [44] which concluded that more frequent travel with public transport (than desired) may negatively impact attitudes and satisfaction, the present results suggest that the frequency of public transport travel also appears to have a negative impact on perceived accessibility. Thus, individuals traveling more frequently with public transport also experience their accessibility as lower than people who travel less often.…”

Section: General Findings In Light Of the Structural Model And The Hysupporting

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Public Transport Quality, Safety, and Perceived Accessibility

2020

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Service quality in public transport is proposed as a key determinant of perceived accessibility, the ease to live the life one wants with the help of the transport system, as low service quality may be a barrier for use, decreasing the ease to participate in daily activities. The first aim was to validate the direct relationship between public transport quality and perceived accessibility. Secondly, we analyzed the mediating role of safety perceptions to better explain the link between service quality and perceived accessibility. Public transport travelers (n = 4944) from five northern European cities were surveyed. Results from PLS-SEM modeling show that service quality has a significant and direct relationship with perceived accessibility, especially regarding functionality. An indirect relationship through travel safety perceptions was also observed, highlighting information and comfort as main drivers. High car use, low public transport use, increasing age, and being a woman were also associated with greater perceived accessibility. City comparisons yielded a number of significant differences. Our results contribute to the research literature by highlighting the importance of service quality in public transport for perceptions of accessibility in daily travel. In particular, we argue that functionality is the core attribute to focus on, and that attributes related to travel safety perceptions should be carefully considered when planning for sustainable transport.

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Section: General Findings In Light Of the Structural Model And The Hysupporting

confidence: 91%

Public Transport Quality, Safety, and Perceived Accessibility

2020

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“…Carrus et al (2008) found that positive anticipated emotions of travelling by PT have a positive effect on the desire to use PT instead of the car. A similar effect-of satisfaction with PT use on the desire to use PT-was found by De Vos et al (2020). Lai and Chen (2011) found that the intention to use PT is positively affected by satisfaction with PT, while Carrus et al (2008) found that anticipated emotions of travelling by PT (in the two weeks after measurement) affect the intention to use PT instead of the car.…”

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“…Although our sample may not be fully representative of the students at Laval University, it is relatively large in size, which makes it possible to estimate specific relationships with ample confidence. For more information regarding the recruitment of participants and sample characteristics, see De Vos et al (2020).…”

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Do frequent satisfying trips by public transport impact its intended use in later life?

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Previous studies have indicated that factors such as the built environment, attitudes and past behaviour can influence travel behaviour. However, the possible effect of travel satisfaction on travel mode choice remains underexplored, despite many studies focusing on travel satisfaction over the past years. It is likely that individuals experiencing satisfying trips with a certain travel mode will use this mode (more) frequently for future trips. In this study—using data from 984 students from Laval University, Canada—we analyse how satisfaction with public transport and the frequency of public transport use affect the intention to use public transport in later life stages. Our results indicate that public transport frequency, public transport satisfaction and the interaction between these two factors (i.e., the frequency of (dis)satisfying public transport trips) significantly affect people’s intentions to use public transport in later life, although variations in effect sizes exist between different life stages. Making public transport more pleasant and increasing ridership of children and young adults (e.g., by giving them free public transport passes) may consequently result in a higher public transport frequency in later life stages. We argue that travel satisfaction can play an important role in the formation of habitual mode use, and that satisfying trips (if undertaken frequently) are likely to be repeated in the future.

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“…Studies of desire have mainly focused on desired travel amounts (Mokhtarian & Salomon, 2001;Redmond & Mokhtarian, 2001), although some studies analysed the desired use of a certain travel mode (e.g. public transport (Carrus, Passafaro, & Bonnes, 2008;De Vos, Waygood, & Letarte, 2020a)).…”

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From attitude to satisfaction: introducing the travel mode choice cycle

2021

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Many studies analysing the relationship between attitudes and travel behaviour have found that travel attitudes have an important impact on travel mode choice. More recently, studies focusing on how people experience travel have shown that travel satisfaction is influenced by the chosen travel mode. The desire and intention of using a travel modewhich can be considered as important predictors of mode choicehave, however, received limited attention. Furthermore, existing studies mostly have a narrow scope and lack integration of the above constructs. In this paper, we introduce the travel mode choice cycle (TMCC), a comprehensive model aiming to link attitude, desire, intention, behaviour, and satisfaction by integrating prominent social-psychological attitude theories such as the theory of planned behaviour, the model of goal-directed behaviour, and the theory of cognitive dissonance. We argue that the constructs of the TMCC are strongly interrelated such that they can affect each other in direct and indirect ways. The proposed cycle provides valuable insights for policymakers to stimulate the use of desired travel modes, such as public transport and active travel. We end this paper by providing suggestions for future studies to simultaneously investigate the relationships specified by the TMCC.

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Modeling the desire for using public transport

Cited by 44 publications

References 46 publications

Public Transport Quality, Safety, and Perceived Accessibility

Public Transport Quality, Safety, and Perceived Accessibility

Do frequent satisfying trips by public transport impact its intended use in later life?

From attitude to satisfaction: introducing the travel mode choice cycle

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