Sustainable Commuting: A Contradiction In Terms?

‘Daily Drags’ and ‘Wannabe Walkers’ – Identifying dissatisfied public transport users who might travel more actively and sustainably

“…The identification of different types of bus users has important implications for our general understanding of the public transport user and the encouragement of active travel. In the current sample, 88% of bus users lived within a four mile radius of the university campus, supporting the notion that bus trips can be sufficiently short to be undertaken by either walking or cycling (Shaw & Gallent, 1999).…”

“…For some shorter trips, we might more appropriately view bus use as an intermediate goal between car use and active travel. Shaw and Gallent (1999) noted years ago that most bus trips tend to be sufficiently short to be substituted by green alternatives. Hence, it was always going to be 1 The UK saw a 14% increase in such households from 2001 to 2011 (Office for National Statistics, 2011).…”