Happiness and Travel Mode Switching: Findings from a Swiss Public Transportation Experiment

By Maya Abou-Zeid, Regina Witter, Michel Bierlaire, V. Kaufmann, Moshe E. Ben-Akiva. 2012

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The role of residential self-selection in land use-travel research: a review of recent findings (2020, background): “Abou-Zeid et al. (2012) found that attitudes toward public transport of habitual car commuters in Switzerland became more negative after being required to commute by transit temporarily.”
What makes travel pleasant and/or tiring? An investigation based on the French National Travel Survey (2012, background): “2009) or separate measures of stress and ease or enjoyment (Abou-Zeid et al. 2012; LaJeunesse and Rodriguez 2012); a newly-developed ‘‘satisfaction with travel scale’’ (Ettema et al. 2011; Friman et al. 2013) as well as a single-item measure of satisfaction with the commute (Abou-Zeid et al. 2012); ”
Travel and Subjective Well-Being: A Focus on Findings, Methods and Future Research Needs (2013, background): “The use of such scales could Abou-Zeid et al. (2012) Travel satisfaction and attitude after travel mode switching † Travel satisfaction Travel statements † attitudes towards car and public transit (Five-point scale) Statements on aspects of car and public transit Archer et al.…”
Do satisfying walking and cycling trips result in more future trips with active travel modes? An exploratory study (2019, background): “Positive attitudes towards bus use (Reibstein et al., 1980) and public transport in general (AbouZeid and Ben-Akiva, 2012; Abou-Zeid et al., 2012) positively affect the overall satisfaction with bus use and public transport use, respectively.”
On the use and potential of behavioural economics from the perspective of transport and climate change (2012, background): “Recently there have been attempts to enhance the utility-based framework by accounting for latent factors such as perceptions, attitudes, norms, and decision protocols (Ben-Akiva et al., 2002; Abou-Zeid et al., 2012).”
Travel satisfaction revisited : on the pivotal role of travel satisfaction in conceptualizing a travel behavior process (2017, background): “, 1980) and public transport in general (Abou-Zeid et al., 2012; AbouZeid and Ben-Akiva, 2012; Lai and Chen, 2011) positively affect the overall satisfaction of bus use and public transport use, respectively.”
Mood and mode: does how we travel affect how we feel? (2014, background): “…where car drivers switched to transit temporarily, happiness with car travel in most cases actually substantially increased as a result of the experience, suggesting transit travel was unpleasant; also, no drivers switched to transit when the experiment ended (Abou-Zeid et al. 2008, 2012).”
Satisfaction-induced travel behaviour (2019, background): “, 1980) and public transport in general (Abou-Zeid & Ben-Akiva, 2012; Abou-Zeid et al., 2012) positively affect satisfaction with bus use and public transport use, respectively.”
Commute happiness in Xi’an, China: Effects of commute mode, duration, and frequency (2018, methodology): “Existing studies on commute well-being are mostly from the U.S., Canada, and Europe (Abou-Zeid and Ben-Akiva, 2011; Abou-Zeid et al., 2012; Cantwell et al., 2009; Eriksson et al., 2013; Ettema et al., 2012; Lucas and Heady, 2002; Manaugh and ElGeneidy, 2013; Olsson et al., 2013; Ory et al., 2004;…”