IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/transp/v38y2015i3p265-276.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Investigating the effects of psychological factors on commuting mode choice behaviour

Author

Listed:
  • Ahmed Osman Idris
  • Khandker M. Nurul Habib
  • Alejandro Tudela
  • Amer Shalaby

Abstract

This paper utilizes socio-psychometric survey data to investigate the influence of attitudes, affective appraisal and habit formation on commuting mode choice. The data-set was collected in 2009-2010 in Edmonton, Alberta. In addition to conventional socio-economic, demographic and modal attributes, the survey gathered psychological information regarding habitual behaviour, affective appraisal and personal attitudes. Different psychometric tools were used to capture psychological factors affecting mode choice. Habitual behaviour was measured using Verplanken's response-frequency questionnaire. Affective appraisal was indirectly estimated using the Osgood's semantic differential. Five-point Likert scales were used to measure attitude. The structural equation modelling (SEM) approach was used to investigate the effects of psychological factors on mode choice behaviour. SEM captures the latent nature of psychological factors and uses path diagrams to identify the directionality as well as intensity of the relationships. The investigation reveals that passengers have positive emotions towards their chosen mode. Further, evidence of the superiority of the car as a travel alternative was established in terms of strong habit towards it, such that passengers would use the car for almost every single trip.

Suggested Citation

  • Ahmed Osman Idris & Khandker M. Nurul Habib & Alejandro Tudela & Amer Shalaby, 2015. "Investigating the effects of psychological factors on commuting mode choice behaviour," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 265-276, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:38:y:2015:i:3:p:265-276
    DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2014.997451
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/03081060.2014.997451
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/03081060.2014.997451?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ruone Zhang & Xin Ye & Ke Wang & Dongjin Li & Jiayu Zhu, 2019. "Development of Commute Mode Choice Model by Integrating Actively and Passively Collected Travel Data," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-15, May.
    2. Blandin, Lola & Vecchio, Giovanni & Hurtubia, Ricardo & Tiznado-Aitken, Ignacio, 2024. "Car dependency in the urban margins: The influence of perceived accessibility on mode choice," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 184(C).
    3. Hernández, Jaime, 2021. "Tiempo de desplazamiento al puesto laboral y relación con los empleados autónomos: el caso de las mujeres trabajadoras alemanas [Commuting time and relationship with self-employed: the case of Germ," MPRA Paper 106040, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio & Molina, José Alberto & Velilla, Jorge, 2020. "Commuting and self-employment in Western Europe," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    5. Geng, Jichao & Long, Ruyin & Chen, Hong & Li, Wenbo, 2017. "Exploring the motivation-behavior gap in urban residents’ green travel behavior: A theoretical and empirical study," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 282-292.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:38:y:2015:i:3:p:265-276. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/GTPT20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.