Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the factors associated with car use for short trips. Using the data collected from a travel survey conducted with car users in Kunming, the structural equation model is employed to explore the structural relationships between car use for short trips, attitudes toward cars and alternative travel modes, sociodemographics, and the built environment. The results show that instrumental and symbolic attitudes toward cars are positively related to the affective attitude, and these three attitudes have a significant effect on car use for short trips. The symbolic attitude of drivers is negatively associated with their walking and cycling attitudes. Drivers with a better cycling attitude use a car less frequently for short trips. Concurrently, the effects of sociodemographics and the built environment on the attitudes and car use for short trips are also identified. The findings may contribute to understanding the car use behavior and help policy makers to identify methods for reducing car use more clearly.
Highlights
In recent decades, with the rapid economic development and urbanization in China, cars are being increasingly used by families
E value of χ2/df is 2.55, which is lower than the cutoff value of 3.0; values of 3 or less indicate a good fit [36]. e comparative fit index (CFI) and Tucker–Lewis index (TLI) are used to evaluate he improvement of the hypothesized model compared with the independence model with unrelated variables [39]. e value of the CFI is 0.926, and TLI is 0.917, indicating that the model has an acceptable fit. e value of the root-mean-square error of approximation (RMSEA) is 0.070, which exhibits a reasonable fit
Using the data collected from a travel survey conducted with car users in Kunming, the structural equation model (SEM) is employed to explore the structural relationships between the car use for short trips, attitudes toward different travel modes, sociodemographics, and the built environment
Summary
With the rapid economic development and urbanization in China, cars are being increasingly used by families. Another study [18] showed that the convenience of parking a car induced the park and ride demand, Journal of Advanced Transportation and weather influenced the decisions of drivers to use cars for short trips Additional influencing factors such as the individual and household socioeconomic status of the traveler, availability of cars and alternative modes, trip purpose, and the built environment of their residence play an essential role in choosing the mode for short trips [19, 20]. In this study, using data collected from a travel survey conducted with car users in Kunming, the structural equation model (SEM) is employed to explore the structural relationships between the car use for short trips, attitudes toward different travel modes, sociodemographics, and the built environment.
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