Impact of information intervention on travel mode choice of urban residents with different goal frames: A controlled trial in Xuzhou, China

Geng, Jichao; Long, Ruyin; Chen, Hong

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2016.06.031

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“…The conclusions drawn from this study are consistent with previous studies [12,34,35], especially the analysis in relation to control variables. Therefore, the results of these variables are universal to a certain degree.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Residents are more inclined to increase their average daily use time of green travel modes, especially the bicycle, after the information intervention and this effect is more obvious in subjects with pro-environmental motivations [12]. It has also been proven that residents, even if they do not take environmental protection as their main motivation, can still be more or less guided by diversified information [12]. Our study shows that non-car users are more satisfied with government instruments.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…Once economic conditions permit, most people may buy and use cars and rapidly change to non-green travel behaviors. On the contrary, people with pro-environmental concerns as their main goals are always more willing to implement sustainable green travel behavior [12,29]. When pro-environmental motivation is promoted by self-interested motivation, it will bring about green travel behavior; however, when it is interfered by self-interested motivation, it will more than likely result in the "motivation-behavior gap" and then non-green car use.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Geng et al (2016) [12] carried out a controlled trial to indicate that information (advertising) has distinct impacts on travel mode choice of urban residents with different main motivations. Residents are more inclined to increase their average daily use time of green travel modes, especially the bicycle, after the information intervention and this effect is more obvious in subjects with pro-environmental motivations [12]. It has also been proven that residents, even if they do not take environmental protection as their main motivation, can still be more or less guided by diversified information [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…If a city constructs more bike paths and fast bus lanes, then non-car use will increase. The study of Geng et al (2016) [12] indicated that publicizing green information can prolong the time people travel by walking, cycling, and public transport, and there were differences between different groups when they reacted to this kind of information. In addition, it has been proven that financial subsidies [40] and administrative restriction policies [41] have direct influences on people's travel mode choices.…”

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confidence: 99%

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People's actions are always accompanied with multiple motives. How to estimate the role of the pro-environment motivation under the interference of other motivations will help us to better interpret human environmental behaviors. On the basis of classical motivation theories and travel mode choice research backgrounds, the concepts of pro-environmental and self-interested motivation were defined. Then based on survey data on 1244 urban residents in the Jiangsu Province in China, the multinomial logistic regression model was constructed to examine the effects of multiple motivations, government measures, and demographic characteristics on residents' travel mode choice behaviors. The result indicates that compared to car use, pro-environmental motivation certainly has a significant and positive role in promoting green travel mode choices (walking, bicycling, and using public transport), but this unstable green behavior is always dominated by self-interested motivations rather than the pro-environmental motivation. In addition, the effects of gender, age, income, vehicle ownership, travel distance, and government instruments show significant differences among travel mode choices. The findings suggest that pro-environmental motivation needs to be stressed and highlighted to ensure sustainable urban transportation. However, policies aimed to only increase the public awareness of environment protection are not enough; tailored policy interventions should be targeted to specific groups having different main motivations.

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Goal activation for sustainable consumer choices: A comparative study of Denmark and Brazil

Thøgersen

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2020

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To study the context dependence of the impact of goal activation on sustainable consumer choices in an online survey, 1,031 participants in Denmark and 1,028 in Brazil were randomly allocated to three different goal-activation manipulations, which were set up to activate a normative goal, a hedonic goal, and a gain goal, respectively. Goal-activation impacts were measured with a choice experiment consisting of six repeated choices of tomatoes. The importance for consumer choices of each of the varied product attributes for consumer choices can be linked to characteristics that differ between countries. Therefore, it was predicted that the importance of attributes differs between Denmark and Brazil. This was confirmed for one of the three attributes (appearance), but not for the other two (organic and price). Still, as predicted, the goal-activation manipulation influenced the impact of varied product attributes (two out of three) on choices. The activation of a normative goal made participants in both countries more likely to choose organic tomatoes and less focused on the appearance of the tomatoes. However, the goal-activation manipulation did not influence the importance of the price. The findings suggest that the situational activation of a normative goal can be an effective means to promote sustainable consumer choices in very different national contexts.

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Investigating the influence mechanism of goal‐framing theory on urban residents' green travel behavior

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This study aims to explore the influence mechanism of goal‐framing theory on green travel behavior (GTB), thereby supporting the promotion of sustainable transportation modes to mitigate environmental degradation and resource waste, in alignment with the “dual carbon” targets. Based on the GTB data of 334 Chinese residents, we use goal‐framing theory to analyze residents' subjective environmental concerns and the external media's driving mechanism on their choice of green travel through a structural equation modeling (SEM). At the same time, the mediating effect of goal frames is tested through mediation testing. The results show that: 1. indirectly encouraged by media persuasion influencing their normative and hedonic goals; 2. encouraged by normative and hedonic goals partially mediating the relationship between environmental concerns and GTB; and 3. surprisingly, not very affected by influencing their gain goals. The implications of this research provide actionable insights for interventions, messaging strategies, transportation industry practices, environmental policy development, and theoretical advancements. For future research, it is essential to delve into regional variations and to more thoroughly account for the influence of external factors on GTB.

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Impact of information intervention on travel mode choice of urban residents with different goal frames: A controlled trial in Xuzhou, China

Cited by 53 publications

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Exploring Multiple Motivations on Urban Residents’ Travel Mode Choices: An Empirical Study from Jiangsu Province in China

Exploring Multiple Motivations on Urban Residents’ Travel Mode Choices: An Empirical Study from Jiangsu Province in China

Goal activation for sustainable consumer choices: A comparative study of Denmark and Brazil

Investigating the influence mechanism of goal‐framing theory on urban residents' green travel behavior

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