The social context of informal commuting: Slugs, strangers and structuration

Mote, Jonathon; Whitestone, Yuko

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2011.01.006

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“…To ensure that we collected data to best represent the quantity and variety of adoptions we opted for an ethnographic approach (Geertz, 1973) utilising a range of data collection methods (Thompson et al, 2012;Mote and Whitestone, 2011). We spent extended time in the field (3 years) visiting stations and witnessing first-hand the work of the station adopters.…”

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A ‘placeful’ station? The community role in place making and improving hedonic value at local railway stations

Alexander

Hamilton

2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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a b s t r a c tIn recent years, railway stations have come to be seen as non-places within society, points of transit and nothing more. The role of the station in place making is disputed with stations seen as both creating and destroying a sense of place within a community. Our study is located within the railway stations of Scotland and explores how local communities have been empowered to reclaim, customise, and re-appropriate stations to simultaneously create a sense of place and better promote their community to the outside world. Drawing on ethnographic research we refute the notion that stations are somehow 'placeless'. We show how through a process of legitimisation, a sense of ownership and appropriation of the station environment, communities are able to transform the station, improving hedonic value and recapturing a sense of place.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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A ‘placeful’ station? The community role in place making and improving hedonic value at local railway stations

Alexander

Hamilton

2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…The needs and demands for transportation will differ among different types of user segments (Jensen, 1999;Mote and Whitestone, 2011;Abrahamse et al, 2009Noblet et al, 2014. The private, personally-owned car is often perceived as the most appealing mode of transport supported by well-known arguments relating to convenience, speed, comfort and individual freedom (Wang and Chen, 2012;Correia and Viegas, 2011;Eriksson et al, 2008;Anable, 2005;Hagman, 2003;Sovacool, 2009).…”

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Of “white crows” and “cash savers:” A qualitative study of travel behavior and perceptions of ridesharing in Denmark

Nielsen

Hovmøller

Blyth

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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…Specific examples in transportation include: Axsen and Kurani (2012) identify contagion, conformity, and dissemination as possible sources of influence in electric vehicle purchasing decisions. Lovejoy and Handy (2011) study how social context affects carpooling among immigrants while Mote and Whitestone (2011) study informal commuting (slugging). Bartle et al (2013) study social influence in cycling commuting through the interaction of cyclists on an online social networking site, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews.…”

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Generalized behavioral framework for choice models of social influence: Behavioral and data concerns in travel behavior

Maness

Cirillo

Dugundji

2015

Journal of Transport Geography

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a b s t r a c tOver the past two decades, transportation has begun a shift from an individual focus to a social focus. Accordingly, discrete choice models have begun to integrate social context into its framework. Social influence, the process of having one's behavior be affected by others, has been one approach to this integration. This paper provides a review and discussion of the incorporation of social influence into discrete choice models with specific application in travel behavior analysis. The discussion begins with a generalized framework to describe choice models of social influence. This framework focuses on the behavioral microfoundations of social influence and choice by separating the social influence mechanism from the source of its influence and by explicitly acknowledging the role of the social network in the model structure. This contrasts with prior work that focused on the measurement of contextual, endogenous, and correlated effects. Then, the state of the art in travel behavior research is reviewed using a taxonomy based on the generalized framework with research performed in sociology, social psychology, and social network analysis. The discussion then shifts to the importance of understanding the motivations for social influence, and the formation and structure of social networks are explored. Additionally, the challenges of collecting data for social influence studies are mentioned and the paper concludes with a look at the challenges in the field and areas for future research.

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The social context of informal commuting: Slugs, strangers and structuration

Cited by 23 publications

References 21 publications

A ‘placeful’ station? The community role in place making and improving hedonic value at local railway stations

A ‘placeful’ station? The community role in place making and improving hedonic value at local railway stations

Of “white crows” and “cash savers:” A qualitative study of travel behavior and perceptions of ridesharing in Denmark

Generalized behavioral framework for choice models of social influence: Behavioral and data concerns in travel behavior

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