Automated Vehicles: Changes in expert opinions over time

Innovations in transportation can contribute to reaching relevant societal objectives (e.g. reduce emissions, congestion levels and/or risks). To determine which innovations to stimulate (and which not) it is important for policy makers to assess their effects on beforehand. Expert judgement is an often-used method for this purpose. Although...

Understanding how accessibility influences health via active travel: Results from a structural equation model

Active travel (walking and cycling) is increasingly being recognised as a potentially effective means of increasing physical activity levels and thereby contribute to physical and mental health. Research related to active travel typically either focuses on the determinants of active travel or its health effects. As far as the authors are...

Attitude changes, modelling travel behaviour, and ex ante project evaluations

The literature has increasingly recognized that people's attitudes can change for many reasons. This paper argues that attitude changes can have important implications for modelling travel behaviour and ex ante evaluations of candidate policy options. Limiting ourselves to the transport system and the built environment, we discuss why attitudes...

Autobezit en autogebruik onder jongeren en visies ten aanzien van deelmobiliteit

Attitudeveranderingen, modellen en ex-ante evaluaties

In de wetenschappelijke literatuur over mobiliteitsgedag spelen attitudes van mensen sinds ongeveer 25 jaar een belangrijke rol. Tot voor kort werden attitudes als min of meer stabiel verondersteld. Recente inzichten geven aan dat attitudes kunnen veranderen onder invloed van mobiliteitsgedrag en de gebouwde omgeving. We stellen dat, als hiervan...

Kunnen gemeenten de gezondheid bevorderen door het stimuleren van actief reisgedrag? De resultaten van een padmodel

Actief reisgedrag (lopen en fietsen) draagt bij aan de mate van lichamelijke beweging en daarmee aan de lichamelijke en geestelijke gezondheid van mensen. Onderzoek naar actief reisgedrag richt zich meestal of op de determinanten van dit gedrag of op de gezondheidseffecten. Tot nu toe zijn er geen studies die beide groepen variabelen in één...

Attitudeveranderingen: belangrijk voor verkeersmodellen en ex-ante evaluaties van beleidsopties: Een discussiepaper

In de wetenschappelijke literatuur over mobiliteitsgedag spelen attitudes van mensen sinds ongeveer 25 jaar een belangrijke rol. Tot voor kort werden attitudes als min of meer stabiel verondersteld. Recente inzichten geven aan dat attitudes kunnen veranderen onder invloed van mobiliteitsgedrag en de gebouwde omgeving. In dit discussiepaper...

Linear, non-linear, bi-directional? Testing the nature of the relationship between mobility and satisfaction with life

Travel is one of the most important facilitators of life and has been widely acknowledged as a prerequisite for economic and social activity. Research developing in recent decades has found that limitations to mobility and accessibility can reduce satisfaction with life. To date, research in this field assumes a linear and one-way...

Implications of automated vehicles for accessibility and location choices: Evidence from an expert-based experiment

In this paper, possible accessibility impacts of fully automated vehicles (AVs) are explored. A conceptual framework for those impacts is developed based on the model of four accessibility components (i.e. land use, transport, temporal and individual) of Geurs and van Wee (2004). Q-method is applied among a sample of seventeen international...

Changing Influence of Factors Explaining Household Car Ownership Levels in the Netherlands

To contribute to existing research on the influence of various factors on household car ownership in the Netherlands, this study addressed the question whether and to what extent the influence of economic, sociodemographic, and spatial factors on the number of cars owned by households has changed over time. There seems to be an absence of...

Historic vehicles: an overview from a transport policy perspective

Historic vehicles (HVs) are the heritage of road transport that have surprisingly received little attention in the academic literature. This study presents an overview of the literature on HVs, focusing on the three topics that dominate the policy debate on transport: environmental, safety and congestion impacts. We observed that polluting...

Identifying reasons for historic car ownership and use and policy implications: An explorative latent class analysis

The number of historic vehicles is steadily increasing. Although, these vehicles are part of our cultural heritage with respect to road transport and mobility, they present (future) environmental concerns, which is a relevant development from policy perspective. Yet, as far as the authors are aware, there is hardly any academic literature...

Causal effects of built environment characteristics on travel behaviour: A longitudinal approach

The influence of the built environment on travel behaviour and the role of intervening variables such as socio-demographics and travel-related attitudes have long been debated in the literature. To date, most empirical studies have applied cross-sectional designs to investigate their bidirectional relationships. However, these designs provide...