Why is active travel more satisfying than motorized travel? Evidence from Dublin.
Environmental transport policy
Subjective well-being
Travel satisfaction
Journal
Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice
ISSN: 0965-8564
Titre abrégé: Transp Res Part A Policy Pract
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101603981
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2020
Jun 2020
Historique:
received:
07
08
2019
revised:
04
02
2020
accepted:
08
04
2020
entrez:
12
5
2020
pubmed:
12
5
2020
medline:
12
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Some trips are better than others, and more and more studies find that active travel (walking and cycling) is more satisfying than motorized forms of travel (using the car or public transport). Why is this the case? Using data on travel satisfaction from 4134 commutes to a large University campus in Dublin, Ireland, this paper replicates the differences in travel satisfaction between active and motorized travel. We attribute these differences in large part to the duration of the trip. Subjective trip characteristics, such as safety and convenience, also play important roles. The trip duration explains rush-hour effects as well as why people starting from less affluent and more difficult-to-reach places are less satisfied with their trips. Longer-term policy options suggested by these results include infrastructure developments and spatial development strategies. A shorter-term initiative would be to delay university schedules in the morning to avoid low travel satisfaction during the slow rush-hour period and simultaneously ease pressure on the transport network at peak times.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32390693
doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2020.04.007
pii: S0965-8564(20)30562-0
pmc: PMC7200371
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
318-333Informations de copyright
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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