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Influencing travel behaviour

Influencing travel behaviour
Influencing travel behaviour
As travel planning’s theoretical underpinnings have broadened from engineering and economics to embrace psychology and sociology, an emphasis has been placed on social marketing and nudge theory. It is argued that this is consistent with a neo-liberal trend towards governing from a distance. Using two case studies, one a qualitative study of reducing short-haul air travel, the other a quantitative study of attempts to reduce local car travel, it is found that actual behaviour change is limited. This seems to arise because behavioural change has been too narrowly defined and overly identified with personal choice.
Policy Press
Barr, Stewart
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Preston, John
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Barr, Stewart
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Preston, John
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Barr, Stewart and Preston, John (2019) Influencing travel behaviour. In, Transport Matters. Policy Press. (doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447329558.003.0005).

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As travel planning’s theoretical underpinnings have broadened from engineering and economics to embrace psychology and sociology, an emphasis has been placed on social marketing and nudge theory. It is argued that this is consistent with a neo-liberal trend towards governing from a distance. Using two case studies, one a qualitative study of reducing short-haul air travel, the other a quantitative study of attempts to reduce local car travel, it is found that actual behaviour change is limited. This seems to arise because behavioural change has been too narrowly defined and overly identified with personal choice.

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Published date: 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 444210
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/444210
PURE UUID: 4967bbd0-8505-4b23-9d3a-ca069f0b4740
ORCID for John Preston: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-049X

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Date deposited: 01 Oct 2020 16:34
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:04

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Author: Stewart Barr
Author: John Preston ORCID iD

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