Travel attitudes, the built environment and travel behavior relationships: Causal insights from social psychology theories

Rahman, Mashrur; Sciara, Gian-Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.04.012

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“…This suggests that improved walkability and perception of subway stations could guide people to choose subway travel; (3) Hypothesis H9, referring to the path between TE and TBI, was not supported based on the SEM results. It can be inferred that the impact of TE on TBI could be explained by the intermediate effect of subjective psychological factors, which is also supported by other studies [ 34 , 35 ]; (4) The impact path of TE-TB is clear and has been confirmed by many empirical studies [ 13 , 14 ]. This indicates that people do not simply choose a travel method based on their subjective attitudes but also are restricted by their objective environment.…”

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Impact of Subjective and Objective Factors on Subway Travel Behavior: Spatial Differentiation

Chen

Yan

Zhang

et al. 2022

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People’s perceptions and understanding of the built environment can shape and regulate travel intention and behavior. From the perspective of urban design, improving the built urban environment is an important way to encourage green travel. This study determined the impact path from the built environment to subway travel behavior, considering the intermediate effect of psychological factors. The impact path could provide feedback for optimizing the built environment, thereby improving the ratio of subway travel. In this study, the impact path hypothesis of “objective environment—subjective psychological—travel behavior” was first proposed, taking travelers’ psychological perceptions as the intermediary variable. Second, questionnaires and geographic information were used to measure the objective environment and subjective psychological perceptions. Third, a structural equation model was constructed to verify the proposed path hypothesis. Finally, multiscale geographically weighted regression was used to analyze the influence of subjective and objective factors on travel behavior and its spatial differences. The empirical case sampled 405 residents of Zhengzhou, China. The results verified the proposed impact path hypothesis and revealed spatial heterogeneity in its impact on travel behavior. The research explains how travel behavior is generated and could support the optimization of the urban built environment.

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Impact of Subjective and Objective Factors on Subway Travel Behavior: Spatial Differentiation

Chen

Yan

Zhang

et al. 2022

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“…This study has several limitations. First, it does not consider the role of residential selfselection, that is, whether the participants with a specific socio-psychological disposition choose to reside in the residential neighborhoods with the characteristics that match their preferences and desire [38,39]. This would confound the relationship between housing types and socio-psychological health.…”

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Physical Environment, Socio-Psychological Health, and Residential Satisfaction: A Link across Housing Types in the Unique Chinese Context

Chen,

Tian,

Nielsen

et al. 2023

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Housing plays a critical role in health and has real consequences on people’s wellbeing. Numerous studies have provided extensive insights into the housing–health–wellbeing association. However, in the Chinese context, the unique housing allocation system with institutional force may present a distinct picture from that based on international knowledge. Using sample data from housing surveys, this study employs statistical analysis and the Tobit model to explore the links between the physical environment, socio-psychological dispositions, and residential satisfaction at the neighborhood level across different housing types in the unique Chinese context. The analyses reveal that (1) residents’ socio-psychological dispositions and residential satisfaction vary remarkably across different housing types, with residents in replacement housing experiencing particularly low levels of residential satisfaction, presenting a regionalization trend; (2) housing types appear to have a significant effect on socio-psychological dispositions; and (3) physical environment characteristics in conjunction with socio-psychological dispositions significantly affect residential satisfaction. These findings suggest that social housing development should integrate socio-psychological initiatives with physical environment improvement, particularly for disadvantaged groups in public and replacement housing, to achieve more livable communities with better residential satisfaction and higher social resiliency and sustainability.

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“…In this situation, it is expected that the true effect of residential built environment on people’s car use behavior could be obtained by including relevant attitudes into models. Rahman and Sciara ( 3 ) presented a comprehensive conceptual model to illustrate the role of travel attitude and residential choice in the relationship between built environment and travel behavior based on a review of theories and empirical findings. Finally, the third research domain refers to the improvement of classical discrete choice mode, where attitudes and other psychological factors are included as latent variables to enhance the predictive power and behavioral realism, for example, the hybrid choice model (HCM).…”

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“…It has been commonly acknowledged that discerning the influence of an individual’s attitude is a key point in understanding travel behavior ( 3 ). Travel studies rooted in social psychology have long examined attitude and attitude structure, along with the attitude–behavior relationship.…”

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Identifying the Nature of Travel by Different Transport Modes as Consummatory or Instrumental

2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Attitudes are crucial in understanding people’s travel behavior. In this paper, affective and cognitive components are simultaneously considered, where affective attitude refers to feelings and emotions that are evoked from traveling by particular mode, and the cognitive component of an attitude contains the attributes and beliefs associated with that mode. Based on a mobility survey for the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences (LISS) panel, this study endeavors to identify the relative importance of attitude components on travel behavior related to car, public transport, and bike, based on which the nature of mode-specific travel behavior could be determined. Being confined to the psychosocial sphere, the target mode-specific travel behavior will be defined as instrumental if a comparatively strong impact from cognitive attitude is observed and as consummatory if affective attitude has a larger influence on travel behavior. The identified behavioral nature is further examined across people with diverse characteristics. The dominant role of affective attitude suggests car travel behavior to be highly consummatory, which applies for most groups. Public transport travel is performed as an instrumental behavior basically determined by cognitive attitude, and this outcome considerably varies across population groups. Travel by bike is carried out by all the groups firmly as consummatory, and the negative effect of cognitive attitude on bike travel basically reflects people’s motivation to fulfill social desirability, which leads to a behavioral violation. The analysis offers a further understanding of travel behavior, which might provide useful implications for transportation administration.

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Travel attitudes, the built environment and travel behavior relationships: Causal insights from social psychology theories

Cited by 35 publications

References 66 publications

Impact of Subjective and Objective Factors on Subway Travel Behavior: Spatial Differentiation

Impact of Subjective and Objective Factors on Subway Travel Behavior: Spatial Differentiation

Physical Environment, Socio-Psychological Health, and Residential Satisfaction: A Link across Housing Types in the Unique Chinese Context

Identifying the Nature of Travel by Different Transport Modes as Consummatory or Instrumental

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