Moving towards sustainability? Mobility styles, attitudes and individual travel behaviour

Prillwitz, Jan; Barr, Stewart

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.06.011

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“…This is in line with Prillwitz and Barr (2011), who found that "attitudes towards the environment, sustainability and certain environmentally friendly transport modes have a significant impact on daily travel behaviour". Using data from a stated preference survey conducted in the UK, we examine how such attitudes can be accommodated in a hybrid model that explains both the preferences for travel time and GHG reductions and the answers to attitudinal questions.…”

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Accommodating underlying pro-environmental attitudes in a rail travel context: Application of a latent variable latent class specification

Hess

Shires

Jopson

2013

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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Using data from a stated preference survey conducted in the UK, we show how the relative importance that rail travellers attach to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and faster journey times varies strongly as a function of underlying attitudes towards the environment. We specify a latent class structure that allocates respondents to two classes with substantially different valuations of greenhouse gas emissions, and show how the allocation of a given respondent to either class is a function of underlying attitudes that also drive the answers to a number of attitudinal questions. We also show how these underlying attitudes are a function of a number of socio-demographic characteristics, with female respondents, older respondents, and respondents with a university degree having a stronger pro-environmental attitude, with the opposite applying to respondents with regular car access.

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Accommodating underlying pro-environmental attitudes in a rail travel context: Application of a latent variable latent class specification

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Shires

Jopson

2013

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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“…Heinen et al, 2011;Prillwitz & Barr, 2011). All of these approaches have specific pros and cons depending on the area of application (cf.…”

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European mobility cultures: A survey-based cluster analysis across 28 European countries

Haustein

Nielsen

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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More targeted European policies promoting green travel patterns require better knowledge on differing mobility cultures across European regions. As a basis for this, we clustered the EU population into eight mobility styles based on Eurobarometer data. The mobility styles -including, for example, "green cyclists" and "convenience drivers" -differed not only in their travel-related variables but also in their socio-economic background, IT-affinity, and life satisfaction, with green cyclist showing the highest life satisfaction and two car-oriented styles having the highest socioeconomic resources. In a second step, the 28 EU member countries were clustered into six country • Based on Eurobarometer data, we clustered the EU population into eight mobility styles.• Mobility styles differed in travel-related choices, socio-economics, IT-affinity, and life satisfaction.• Based on their representation of mobility styles, EU countries were clustered into six country clusters. 2• The country clusters form identifiable sub-regions or spatial clusters within the EU.• Country clusters can be used for monitoring and targeting European transport policies.3

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“…Some interesting observations arise from the result reported here including the fundamentally reframe what we consider sustainable lifestyles are including daily behaviours in the light of travel and tourism. This may indicate the extent of behavioural changes that are needed to bring about real change (Barr, Shaw, Coles, Prillwitz 2010;Prillwitz and Barr 2011;Barr, Gilg and Shaw 2011) to make a step change in the transferability of daily sustainability behaviour to the holiday concept. As Stoll-Kleemann, O'Riordan and Jaeger (2001) highlighted, the metaphor of displaced commitment, dominates tourist desires to travel to destinations, where they knowingly impact the environment, but where they believe this impact is counterbalanced by environmental action at home.…”

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Tourist attitudes towards water use in the developing world: A comparative analysis

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Essex

Čaušević

2014

Tourism Management Perspectives

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2 Highlights Water use amongst tourists visiting developing countries is review in The DominicanRepublic, Zanzibar and the Gambia 2. The green at home-not on holiday proposition is evaluated through water consumption 3. Issues of water inequality are examined to demonstrate the need to adjust tourist attitudes and behaviour where water use cannot easily be offset 3 Key words: water use; comparative analysis; developing countries; tourists' attitudes; TOURIST ATTITUDES TOWARDS WATER USE IN THE DEVELOPINGtourists' behaviors INTRODUCTIONThis paper examines the interconnections between water use by tourists and their awareness and behaviour towards problems facing destinations in the developing world in terms of water scarcity and access to drinking water. The paper is based on a comparative analysis of tourist attitudes towards water consumption and sustainability in both their home environment and whilst on holiday, focusing on the growing research agenda associated with water equity (Whitely, Ingram & Perry, 2008). As Hadjikakou, Chenoweth & Miller (2013) argue, there has been an oscillating interest in water issues in the wider sustainability debates due to the focus on carbon reduction and energy issues. Water equity refers to the UN's right to water and sanitation and, in the context of tourism, is considered as "Development that does not infringe upon or take precedence over the right to water of communities in destinations for essential personal, domestic and livelihood needs" (Tourism Concern, 2012: 5). 4The principle is unambiguous in ensuring access to water for communities alongside the operation of tourism, and reflects the growing application of wider social science areas of research structured around social equity in local communities and sustainability (Cole & Morgan 2011;Cole 2012). Water equity also connects with many wider issues of tourism and development, notably the debate over how western tourism interests exploit the developing world, as highlighted by Britton (1982Britton ( , 1991. This political economy approach acts as a means to understand, theorise and rationalise the tourism economies built around mass coastal tourism in fragile and vulnerable coastal tourism communities, particularly in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) (UNWTO 2012). Whilst it is not the purpose of this paper to adopt a political economy perspective, it is an important context to recognise as it also has a clear bearing on many of the debates associated with tourism and sustainability, especially in relation to the control of resources, access to these resources by local communities and their use by resource-intensive tourism interests (i.e. businesses and entrepreneurs).Although the issue of water consumption is not new within environmental management and tourism research, developing a comparative analysis to the issue across multiple destinations is a novel methodology to advance knowledge beyond single case studies. This paper focuses on research into tourists' attitudes to water equity in three developing c...

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Moving towards sustainability? Mobility styles, attitudes and individual travel behaviour

Cited by 204 publications

References 19 publications

Accommodating underlying pro-environmental attitudes in a rail travel context: Application of a latent variable latent class specification

Accommodating underlying pro-environmental attitudes in a rail travel context: Application of a latent variable latent class specification

European mobility cultures: A survey-based cluster analysis across 28 European countries

Tourist attitudes towards water use in the developing world: A comparative analysis

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