Role of Social Climate in Habitual Transit Use by Young Adults to Work and Leisure Activities

Abstract

As mobility has increasingly become a vehicle for producing meaning and culture, and public transport has traditionally formed a dense and diverse social climate in which social interactions habitually occur, assessing the relationship between social climate and transit use is extremely important, especially in the younger populations that will shape the future of transport systems. This study proposes a behavioral framework founded on the theory of planned behavior and the social climate model. The study presents a tailor-made, web-based survey and a structural equation model for analyzing transit use as a function of attitudes toward public transport, subjective norms, social ambience in public transport, travel independence and autonomy, family (house) rules, and perceived quality of service. This study focuses on transit systems in cities in North and South America that have a much higher public transport ridership, tighter design standards in terms of personal space, and a higher degree of informal social interaction than transit systems in Europe, where previous studies have been conducted. Estimation results from a structural equations model show that (a) transit use frequency is significantly related to the perceived behavioral control of using transit and the social climate; (b) attitudes, norms, and perceived behavioral control are associated with perceived service quality; (c) gender differences exist in the user experience and appreciation of the social climate in transit; and (d) the residential social climate is linked to the transit social climate.

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“…à aversão ao trânsito.Por outro lado, cortesia e gentileza do motorista estão relacionadas à qualidade de serviço percebida e desejada, do mesmo modo, socializar com outros está relacionado com maior satisfação e emoções positivas, especialmente para grupos de usuários mais jovens e usuários idosos, onde o trânsito serve como local para socializar, encontros anônimos e fomentar interações sociais entre gerações mais jovens e idosos. Finalmente o estudo, afirma que os gestores do sistema devem investir em proporcionar um clima social positivo, assim como a qualidade e acessibilidade com o fim de criar uma melhor experiência e fazer o trânsito mais atrativo(SALVÁ et al, 2015).Nesse contexto, garantir ambientes propícios e de apoio à medida que as pessoas envelhecem é um desafio significativo, para que os idosos possam envelhecer ativamente e participar da vida política, social, econômica e cultural da sociedade. Isso significa que os aspectos de vida, incluindo moradia e transporte, devem ser amigáveis com os idosos, para garantir que os idosos possam "envelhecer" e permanecer independentes pelo maior tempo possível (UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND, 2012)2.2.7 Dificuldades com o ambienteO sistema de transporte compreende diferentes elementos que se relacionam entre si.…”