The Role of Infrastructural and Psychological Factors in Sustainable Transportation Mode Choices
Individual mobility behavior continues to pose a challenge to achieving climate goals, as motorized individual transportation is still favored over public transportation. The present study examines five possible drivers of more sustainable transportation mode choices: two infrastructural factors, sp...
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| description | Individual mobility behavior continues to pose a challenge to achieving climate goals, as motorized individual transportation is still favored over public transportation. The present study examines five possible drivers of more sustainable transportation mode choices: two infrastructural factors, specifically city center accessibility and railway accessibility, and three psychological variables: adaptability, climate change perception, and car orientation. A sample of <i>N</i> = 187 participants was collected in a German city in the Lower Rhine region. Our findings, based on ordinal logistic regression models, indicate that railway accessibility and car orientation are associated with both the use of motorized and public transportation. While center accessibility and adaptability predicted the use of motorized individual transportation, these variables did not significantly relate to the use of public transportation. Also, our results indicate that climate change perception does not relate to transportation use. This surprising finding is discussed in detail. On a more general level, the study’s insights reinforce previous findings and stress the importance of considering not only infrastructural factors in urban spaces but also the characteristics and attitudes of their inhabitants. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-624ada844e1a466db0d3b950adca2a0a2025-08-20T03:11:21ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172025-05-011511595310.3390/app15115953The Role of Infrastructural and Psychological Factors in Sustainable Transportation Mode ChoicesEva Gößwein0Johannes Aertker1Dirk Wittowsky2Magnus Liebherr3Chair of General Psychology: Cognition, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057 Duisburg, GermanyChair of Mobility and Urban Planning, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45127 Essen, GermanyChair of Mobility and Urban Planning, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45127 Essen, GermanyChair of Mechatronics, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057 Duisburg, GermanyIndividual mobility behavior continues to pose a challenge to achieving climate goals, as motorized individual transportation is still favored over public transportation. The present study examines five possible drivers of more sustainable transportation mode choices: two infrastructural factors, specifically city center accessibility and railway accessibility, and three psychological variables: adaptability, climate change perception, and car orientation. A sample of <i>N</i> = 187 participants was collected in a German city in the Lower Rhine region. Our findings, based on ordinal logistic regression models, indicate that railway accessibility and car orientation are associated with both the use of motorized and public transportation. While center accessibility and adaptability predicted the use of motorized individual transportation, these variables did not significantly relate to the use of public transportation. Also, our results indicate that climate change perception does not relate to transportation use. This surprising finding is discussed in detail. On a more general level, the study’s insights reinforce previous findings and stress the importance of considering not only infrastructural factors in urban spaces but also the characteristics and attitudes of their inhabitants.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/11/5953adaptabilitytransport mode choicetraffic psychologyaccessibilityclimate change perceptionmobility behavior |
| spellingShingle | Eva Gößwein Johannes Aertker Dirk Wittowsky Magnus Liebherr The Role of Infrastructural and Psychological Factors in Sustainable Transportation Mode Choices Applied Sciences adaptability transport mode choice traffic psychology accessibility climate change perception mobility behavior |
| title | The Role of Infrastructural and Psychological Factors in Sustainable Transportation Mode Choices |
| title_full | The Role of Infrastructural and Psychological Factors in Sustainable Transportation Mode Choices |
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| title_short | The Role of Infrastructural and Psychological Factors in Sustainable Transportation Mode Choices |
| title_sort | role of infrastructural and psychological factors in sustainable transportation mode choices |
| topic | adaptability transport mode choice traffic psychology accessibility climate change perception mobility behavior |
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