TY - JOUR
T1 - Shifting to more sustainable mobility styles
T2 - A latent transition approach
AU - Haustein, Sonja
AU - Kroesen, Maarten
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Cities around the world make efforts to reduce car use and its negative consequences but even in cycling cities, mobility behaviour is still dominated by car use. This paper examines the effect of life events, changed resources and attitude-behaviour incongruency on changes in people's mobility style. The paper is based on a longitudinal survey including people who participated 2–3 times within a 2.5-year period. Applying latent transition analysis based on participants' mobility attitudes and behaviour, we identified 5 distinct mobility classes: one functional and one enthusiastic car user class; one car-prone and one car-aversive cycling class and a public transport class. Free-floating car sharing subscription had an effect on initial class membership but not on transition probability. However, shifts were significantly related to age and gender, changes in income and place of residence. Yet, most effects disappeared when car ownership was included in the latent transition model. Once people end up in car-centred mobility styles, a voluntary transition back seems difficult to achieve.
AB - Cities around the world make efforts to reduce car use and its negative consequences but even in cycling cities, mobility behaviour is still dominated by car use. This paper examines the effect of life events, changed resources and attitude-behaviour incongruency on changes in people's mobility style. The paper is based on a longitudinal survey including people who participated 2–3 times within a 2.5-year period. Applying latent transition analysis based on participants' mobility attitudes and behaviour, we identified 5 distinct mobility classes: one functional and one enthusiastic car user class; one car-prone and one car-aversive cycling class and a public transport class. Free-floating car sharing subscription had an effect on initial class membership but not on transition probability. However, shifts were significantly related to age and gender, changes in income and place of residence. Yet, most effects disappeared when car ownership was included in the latent transition model. Once people end up in car-centred mobility styles, a voluntary transition back seems difficult to achieve.
KW - Attitudes
KW - Car ownership
KW - Free-floating car sharing
KW - Latent transition analysis
KW - Mode choice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133727022&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103394
DO - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103394
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133727022
SN - 0966-6923
VL - 103
JO - Journal of Transport Geography
JF - Journal of Transport Geography
M1 - 103394
ER -