Citation

Hsieh HS, Kanda Y, Fujii S. Transp. Res. F Traffic Psychol. Behav. 2019; 60: 228-244.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.trf.2018.10.025

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Voluntary travel behavior change has been increasingly paid attention for promoting sustainable transportation. However, in the psychological process underlying the foundation of travel behavior change programs, the roles of volitional phase and its constructs have not been fully clarified. This research therefore incorporated coping planning, in addition to implementation intention, as two volitional constructs, to model the volitional phase of travel behavior change, and to investigate how the volitional constructs mediate between behavioral intention and behavior change. The data were collected from citizens in Taipei City, Taiwan, by two questionnaires across a one-month period. The main results suggested that implementation intention mediated the effect of behavioral intention on car use change only through the mediation of coping planning; that coping planning mediated between behavioral intention and car use change; and that the effectiveness of personalized travel plans in behavior change could be attributed to the volitional constructs. Based on the findings, the behavior change model incorporating coping planning could account for the effectiveness of implementation intention in travel behavior. Further implications of implementation intention and coping planning, and potential extension of behavior change process were discussed.

Language: en

Keywords

Behavioral intention; Coping planning; Implementation intention; Intention-behavior gap; Personalized travel plans; Voluntary travel behavior change