Understanding the determinants for predicting citizens' travel mode change from private cars to public transport in China.

ABSTRACT: Rapid urbanization and motorization have generated increasing social and environmental challenges to the urban transport sector in China, such as traffic congestion, car accidents, air pollution, and global warming. Prioritizing the development of urban public transport system has been adopted as a primary strategy by Chinese government. However, the problems caused by large numbers of private cars are still far from being solved, and the ridership of public transport in China is relatively low. Therefore, the current study proposes a new comprehensive framework by enhancing the norm activation model (NAM) and theory of planned behavior (TPB) with the perceived accessibility to public transport, to better understand the determinants for predicting citizens' choice of public transport as a

SUBMITTER: Sheng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9588939 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature