Transport poverty and car dependence: A European perspective

How much should public transport services be expanded, and who should pay? Experimental evidence from Switzerland

“…Second, support levels of more than 50% for certain PT design packages that include more demand-based services indicate that the public is not per se against putting cost efficiency before accessibility if, at the same time, PT becomes more affordable through ticket price reductions -even if this means that current service levels (providing regular connections during the day and basic connections to rural areas) would be difficult to uphold. While we would have expected more opposition against demand-based services from areas with low PT accessibility, it is also the case that subgroups who are vulnerable to reductions in services in more peripheral regions are mostly relatively small in numbers, as dependency on cars as the main mode of transport in these regions has led to entrenched car use practices and preferences (Mattioli et al 2020;Mattioli 2021).…”

“…Last, while our study did not find differences in support for PT designs depending on whether respondents live in peripheral regions with low access to PT (and thus have most to win or lose from changes to PT) or not, future research needs to differentiate between different forms of transport poverty carefully. As in these regions, the dependency on cars most strongly burdens particular groups, such as low-income households and individuals who need to spend a disproportionate amount of time on mobility (Mattioli 2021).…”

Facing a time crunch: Time poverty and travel behaviour in Canada

“…Lucas (2012) argues that researchers need to consider the sense of social isolation, stress, and impoverishment that occurs when an individual needs to spend an excessive amount of time traveling. Subsequent discussions of justice, social equity, and poverty have acknowledged the salience of time poverty (Lucas 2016, Mattioli 2020, Pereira et al 2016, Schwanen et al 2015. These articles share an understanding that temporal analysis must situate built environment effects on travel behavior within individual's social networks, reciprocity, household characteristics, and health.…”

Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach

“…For example, I have not looked into implications in the forms of a quantitative change in vehicle holding or VKT (vehicle kms travelled). Also, the limited focus on environmental sustainability means that I did not look into economic or social sustainability -for example, linking car-sharing to transport poverty and car dependence (Mattioli, 2021).…”