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Life cycles, shocks and travel behaviour

Are people more likely to change their travel behaviour during a period of upheaval?

05 September 2008
Some evidence suggests that young people, once tempted onto public transport, are likely to stay there as they get older
Some evidence suggests that young people, once tempted onto public transport, are likely to stay there as they get older

 

There is periodic interest in a rather simple proposition that always strikes a chord with anybody who hears it and is potentially extremely useful, but has remained on the fringe of theory and practice for years. This is the proposition that people who are undergoing some important ‘life-event’ are more likely to be receptive to changing their travel behaviour than those whose lives are stable and uninterrupted.

This is not self-evidently true. After all, when you are in the...

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