Understanding how and why travel mode changes: analysis of longitudinal qualitative interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Encouraging alternatives to the car such as walking, cycling or public transport is a key cross-sector policy priority to promote population and planetary health. Individual travel choices are shaped by individual and environmental contexts, and changes in these contexts - triggered by key events - can translate to changes in travel mode. Understanding how and why these changes happen can help uncover more generalisable findings to inform future intervention research. This study aimed to identify the mechanisms and contexts facilitating changes in travel mode.

Methods

Prospective longitudinal qualitative cohort study utilising semi-structured interviews at baseline (in 2021), three- and six-month follow up. Participants were residents in a new town in Cambridgeshi

SUBMITTER: Garrott K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11367882 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature