Social context, personal norms and the use of public transportation: Two field studies

Bamberg, Sebastian; Hunecke, Marcel; Blöbaum, Anke

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2007.04.001

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“…More recent research into environmental awareness and attitudes suggests that a moral norm to take action to help the environment is important in forming intentions to make travel behaviour changes which reduce carbon emissions. The work by Eriksson et al (2008) and King et al (2008) corroborates that of Bamberg et al (2007), who reported finding personal norms to be a significant determinant of intentions to use public transport. Similarly, Abrahamse et al (2009) reported that intentions to reduce car use were "mostly explained by ... personal norms".…”

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Accommodating underlying pro-environmental attitudes in a rail travel context: Application of a latent variable latent class specification

Hess

Shires

Jopson

2013

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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Using data from a stated preference survey conducted in the UK, we show how the relative importance that rail travellers attach to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and faster journey times varies strongly as a function of underlying attitudes towards the environment. We specify a latent class structure that allocates respondents to two classes with substantially different valuations of greenhouse gas emissions, and show how the allocation of a given respondent to either class is a function of underlying attitudes that also drive the answers to a number of attitudinal questions. We also show how these underlying attitudes are a function of a number of socio-demographic characteristics, with female respondents, older respondents, and respondents with a university degree having a stronger pro-environmental attitude, with the opposite applying to respondents with regular car access.

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Accommodating underlying pro-environmental attitudes in a rail travel context: Application of a latent variable latent class specification

Hess

Shires

Jopson

2013

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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“…Bamberg, Hunecke and Blöbaum [34] studied the strength of socio-normative influence and argued that the more anchored the social norms are, the stronger the association between social norms, personal norms and behaviour. Traits and personal dispositions were studied long ago in psychology where they are defined as neuropsychic structures that uniquely characterize an individual and his/her personality.…”

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“…Norms usually have a small, albeit significant, role in explaining pro-environmental behaviour (e.g., [34,57]). This may be due to the way these constructs are assessed in most questionnaires, where items measure salient and explicit norms (people tell you what should be done).…”

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Engaging in Pro-Environment Travel Behaviour Research from a Psycho-Social Perspective: A Review of Behavioural Variables and Theories

Pronello

Gaborieau

2018

Sustainability

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This paper aims to review variables and behavioural theories originating from social and environmental psychology as applied to transport research, to better understand decision-making mechanisms, information processing and modal choice. The first section provides an overview of the main psycho-social variables which explain behaviour and, notably, pro-environment behaviour. The analysis shows the relations among variables, highlighting some potential cause-effect mechanism or, at least, the influence that such variables can have on behaviour. Furthermore, the strengths and weaknesses of using psycho-social variables to predict travel behaviour are discussed. Such analysis feeds the section related to the behavioural theories. These are reviewed with a focus on potential application to transport sector, showing the would-be added value of introducing a socio-psychological approach in the current vision, focused on stochastic models based on maximisation of personal utility. To this end, attention is paid to the data collection and analysis, basic for any models and even more challenging to collect when they deal with personal characteristics of individuals. Finally, the concept of attitude and intention is discussed, opening the doors between disciplines to overcome the attitude-behaviour gap.

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“…Si bien es cierto que existen algunos trabajos centrados en las experiencias que les suscita a los visitantes de dichos espacios la vivencia de permanecer en ellos en diferentes enclaves, como baluartes de paisajes emblemáticos (Turnbull, 2003;Louter, 2006); otras investigaciones presentan un carácter más aplicado, por ejemplo al evaluar el impacto de la accesibilidad y sus implicaciones, indagando por ejemplo en el problema del cambio climático, las emisiones contaminantes o acústicas (Burson, 2000;Anable, 2005;Guiver, 2007;Gössling, 2012); el diferente uso del transporte turístico desde el punto de vista de la percepción ambiental (Louter, 2006;Bamberg, 2007;Stradling, 2007); las derivaciones de los cambios modales hacia medios de transporte más sostenibles (Transport 2000Trust, 2001Dickinson, 2006;Dickinson y Robbins, 2007); o también la planificación de rutas turísticas para el transporte público (Lumsdon, 2006;Enoch, 2012).…”

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Análisis de la accesibilidad en transporte público al Parque Nacional de Garajonay (Isla de la Gomera): propuesta para su corrección

Luís¹

2015

BAGE

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RESUMENEl objetivo principal de este artículo es la realización de una diagnosis de la accesibilidad al Parque Nacional de Garajonay, para luego detectar los principales problemas, planteando posteriormente las alternativas más sostenibles de transporte hasta este paraje emblemático de la Isla. Partimos de la evaluación de diferentes encuestas, con el fin de evaluar la cantidad de desplazamientos (en el tiempo y en el espacio), proponiendo las soluciones pertinentes según los casos.Palabras clave: accesibilidad, transporte público, Parque Nacional, visitantes, sostenibilidad. ABSTRACTThe main objective of this paper focuses on a diagnosis of accessibility Garajonay National Park, and then identify the main problems, subsequently raising the sustainable transport alternatives to this iconic place on the Island. We start with the evaluation of different surveys, in order to assess the amount of displacement (in time and space), proposing solutions depending on the case.

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Social context, personal norms and the use of public transportation: Two field studies

Cited by 708 publications

References 22 publications

Accommodating underlying pro-environmental attitudes in a rail travel context: Application of a latent variable latent class specification

Accommodating underlying pro-environmental attitudes in a rail travel context: Application of a latent variable latent class specification

Engaging in Pro-Environment Travel Behaviour Research from a Psycho-Social Perspective: A Review of Behavioural Variables and Theories

Análisis de la accesibilidad en transporte público al Parque Nacional de Garajonay (Isla de la Gomera): propuesta para su corrección

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