Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour最新文献

{"title":"Exploring public support and opposition to 100% zero emission vehicle policy","authors":"S. Nordhoff,&nbsp;S. Hardman","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.06.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.06.018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The degree to which the public supports or opposes climate and clean transportation policies can impact the success of these policies. Here, we focus on understanding the level of public support for California’s 100 % zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales regulations, as well as the reasons for that support. Until now, little research has been conducted to identify why the public supports California’s 100 % ZEV sales policy, or any ZEV sales policy. Even less is known about why people may oppose the regulation, or why they are neutral (i.e., neither supporting nor opposing). The aim of this study is to address these research gaps using data from a survey distributed to 2,554 Californian households. Content analysis (<em>n</em> = 1,698) was supplemented with ordinal logistic regression (<em>n</em> = 1,318) to better understand factors related to policy support. The results show that despite only 8 % of survey respondents owning a ZEV, more respondents support the regulation than oppose it. Overall, 46 % support the regulation, 37 % oppose it, and 17 % neither support nor oppose it. While more respondents support the regulation, we find diverse reasons for opposition, including monetary issues (e.g. related to vehicles, charging, and maintenance) and non-monetary costs (e.g. range, charging time), perceptions that ZEVs have negative environmental impacts, and concerns about governmental overreach and the restriction of consumer choices. Support for the regulation relates to sustainability issues, including related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, local air pollution, and reducing oil dependency. Providing information and education, improvements to ZEV technology (including issues on monetary and non-monetary costs), and investments in charging infrastructure and the electricity grid may overcome some of the public’s opposition towards the policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1294-1323"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Turning the wheel of behavior change −An experimental vignette design on incentives for electric vehicle adoption in the workplace","authors":"Daniel Guzmics,&nbsp;Florian Kutzner","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.030","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study assesses the potential for workplace interventions to increase employees’ willingness to adopt electric vehicles (EVs) in corporate fleets across Germany and Austria. Using on the COM-B model, the Behavior Change Wheel (BCW), and a “mobility persona” framework which we proposed in a previous study, the effects of motivational and opportunity-focused interventions on post-intervention willingness to adopt an EV as corporate car are studied. A total of 576 company car users participated in an online experimental vignette design, where they were exposed to randomized AI-generated video messages containing bundles of behavior change techniques (BCTs). Descriptive analyses show that approximately 40% of respondents exhibited high motivation and opportunity (Innovators), while another 40% lacked both (Non-Adopters). Regression analysis revealed that motivation-focused interventions – which included monetary benefits – significantly increased willingness to adopt EVs across all groups. In contrast, opportunity-focused interventions – such as managerial support – were only effective for individuals with low baseline perceptions of opportunity. The findings highlight the role of both psychological drivers and perceived structural and social barriers to promoting transport behavior change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1278-1293"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predicting young drivers’ time-to-licensure from sociodemographic characteristics and quality of adult-supervised practice","authors":"Jessica Hafetz ,&nbsp;Catherine Gervais ,&nbsp;D. Leann Long ,&nbsp;Carol Ford ,&nbsp;Catherine C. McDonald","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many jurisdictions now require adult-supervised practice for learner drivers. For many younger drivers this entails supervision from parents. There is not consensus on how to best optimize this supervision or which factors influence how quickly young drivers progress through the learner period to obtain an independent license. Additionally, young male drivers are over-represented in fatal and serious crashes and it is unknown if this risk has a basis in their learner driver experiences. Using data from the control arm of the Drivingly Trial (554 parent-teen dyads) we examined how sociodemographic factors and parent-teen driving practice behaviours contributed to how quickly teens were licensed and determined if there were sex differences in how practice was experienced by teens. Greater practice variety was associated with faster licensure. Parent engagement with practice supervision increased over the learner period and teens became more supportive of their parents’ supervision as their anticipated license date neared. Male and female teens did not differ with respect to their experience of supervised practice, pre-permit driving or time-to-licensure. White teens and teens from non-urban areas were licensed faster than other teens in our sample, all of whom began the study with a learner’s permit and intention to get licensed. Licensing confers risks and opportunities for young people. Ensuring young learner drivers practice in a range of different driving environments is important. More research is needed to determine how to reduce structural and social barriers to licensure without conferring an increased crash risk.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1268-1277"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144694665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The salience of highway work zone safety and cell phone use among US young adults: Formative evaluation for future campaign development","authors":"Prince Adu Gyamfi ,&nbsp;Evan K. Perrault","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cell phone use while driving is one of the most common distracted driving behaviors among young adults, leading to fatal crashes. However, limited research has explored this topic particularly in the context of highway work zone safety among college-aged adults in the US to understand their predispositions to this topic. Utilizing McGuire’s communication/persuasion model as a formative guide, this study sought to uncover 1) what young adults think about the topic of highway work zone safety, 2) where they want to receive highway work zone safety messages, and 3) whether tailored messaging can shift attitudes and intentions. An online survey of young adults in the U.S. between 18 and 24 years old (<em>N</em> = 1422) was utilized. Also, 1386 written responses about why they did [n = 868] (or did not; n = 518) consider highway work zone safety an important topic were analysed. A large majority (87.1%) of participants already perceived a high level of risk and a high level of efficacy to not drive while using a cell phone. Despite this, the majority (62.4%) thought highway work zone safety was still an important topic for future messaging because messages would help to save lives, protect public safety, and promote safe driving behaviours in highway work zones. Many young adults preferred seeing safety messages on road signposts close to highway work zones and on social media platforms. Messages tailored to participants’ unique risk and efficacy perceptions were no more successful at shifting attitudes and intentions on this topic than non-tailored messages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1241-1252"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144694661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do obstacle characteristics and driver alertness affect the takeover process in conditionally automated driving?","authors":"Penghui Li ,&nbsp;Shufen Zhu ,&nbsp;Ni Zhang ,&nbsp;Jianguo Gong ,&nbsp;Xiaomeng Li ,&nbsp;Chunjiao Dong ,&nbsp;Xuedong Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Before the achievement of fully automated driving, drivers are still required to take control of the vehicle when necessary. The performance of this takeover process is influenced by various factors, such as the driver’s state of alertness and the characteristics of the traffic environment. This study explored how obstacle characteristics in the traffic scenario, driver alertness, and non-driving related tasks (NDRTs) affected the performance of the takeover process, particularly the situation understanding time and takeover reaction time,  in conditionally automated driving. The AdVitam dataset published by <span><span>Meteier et al. (2023)</span></span> was used in this study, where a driving simulation experiment was conducted with 90 participants, collecting data on electrodermal activity (EDA) and subjective perceived risk in six different scenarios (Deer, Cone, Frog, Can, False Alarm 1, and False Alarm 2). A Structural Equation Model (SEM) was constructed to investigate the causal relationship among obstacle movability, obstacle inherent hazard, NDRTs, driver perceived risk, alertness prior to the takeover request, and takeover process. The results indicated that driver alertness, measured by features extracted from EDA, played a significant role in takeover reaction time. Higher alertness leaded to quicker reactions when taking over control. Furthermore, perceived risk, influenced by obstacle movability and inherent hazard, significantly mediated the relationship between obstacle characteristics and takeover reaction time. Additionally, obstacle movability affected situation understanding time directly. These findings suggest that obstacle characteristics and driver physiological signals can be combined for an accurate prediction of drivers’ situation understanding time and takeover reaction time in automated vehicles, thereby enabling adaptive adjustment of takeover warning lead time and enhancing human–machine interaction experience during automated-to-manual transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1253-1267"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144694664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Car dependence and car ownership among carsharing users and the mitigating effect of having multiple carsharing memberships: A moderated mediation analysis","authors":"Felix Czarnetzki","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As business-to-consumer carsharing continues to expand on a global scale, it is probable that a growing number of carsharing users will become enrolled in multiple carsharing services concurrently, particularly in major cities. However, extant literature offers scant insight into whether and to what extent enrollment in multiple services shapes the perception of carsharing as a substitute for car ownership. In addressing this gap, this paper aims to examine how having multiple carsharing memberships affects the relationship between carsharing users’ perceived car dependence, their perception of the suitability of carsharing to meet their car travel needs, and, consequently, their car ownership. To this end, a moderated mediation analysis was conducted with a sample of 788 carsharing users (including 362 individuals with multiple memberships) in the inner city of Hamburg, Germany. The findings suggest that heightened car dependence diminishes the perception of carsharing as a substitute for car ownership, thereby increasing the odds of car ownership. However, having multiple carsharing memberships was found to mitigate this effect. While surveyed carsharing users with more than one membership reported higher levels of car dependence compared to users with only one membership, they were more inclined to perceive carsharing as a viable alternative to car ownership. The moderating influence of multiple carsharing memberships was particularly pronounced among carsharing users with relatively high levels of car dependence, while among carsharing users with relatively low levels of car dependence, having multiple memberships did not lead to significantly more positive perceptions of carsharing or significantly lower car ownership.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1207-1222"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Still fit to drive? Effect of car sickness on takeover and driving performance – A test-track study","authors":"Myriam Metzulat ,&nbsp;Barbara Metz ,&nbsp;Andreas Landau ,&nbsp;Aaron Edelmann ,&nbsp;Alexandra Neukum ,&nbsp;Wilfried Kunde","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In automated driving, car sickness may occur as a new driver state as drivers become passengers during automation. Given previous findings of cognitive impairments due to motion sickness, which could lead to safety critical behavior in takeover situations, the aim of this study was to understand if and how car sickness affects takeover and subsequent driving performance. In a wizard-of-Oz test-track study, <em>N</em> = 33 participants experienced a car sickness and a baseline condition without car sickness. Car sickness was induced by a dynamically simulated automated drive during which participants engaged in an NDRT. In both conditions, four takeover requests were triggered followed by four driving tasks: emergency braking, target braking, free speed slalom and a 25 km/h slalom. Driving with car sickness subjectively impaired the driving performance and was perceived as significantly more critical and demanding. Subjective fitness to drive decreased significantly with increasing car sickness (<em>r</em> = 0.601, <em>p</em> &lt; 0.001). However, objective performance measures did not reflect these subjective impairments, showing no significant adverse effects on takeover times, emergency braking reaction times, distance to target position or slalom performance. Nevertheless, participants drove significantly faster with car sickness, contrary to participants’ report of reducing speed. To conclude, based on the objective data car sickness is unlikely to be a critical driver state, however subjectively it may be. Driving with car sickness appears to be more of a comfort issue than a safety issue. These results should be replicated with more realistic driving scenarios and with longer sustained driving performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1223-1240"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The hidden toll of commuting: How and when stress travels from the road to the workplace","authors":"Yin Zhu,&nbsp;Zhen Wang,&nbsp;Zimei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While commuting stress has received increasing attention, prior research has primarily focused on its physical and mental impacts on individuals. In contrast, limited work has examined how commuting stress affects employee performance or the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Drawing on the work-home resources model, the present study investigates how commuting stress affects employees’ work productivity. Using a time-lagged survey design with three waves of data collected from 340 full-time employees, we examined both in-role and extra-role performance outcomes. Results from path analyses revealed that commuting stress diminishes employees’ in-role and extra-role performance by increasing negative emotional experience. Moreover, emotional regulation served as a buffering resource that attenuated these adverse effects. These findings advance the commuting literature by demonstrating how commuting stress affects work outcomes and by highlighting emotional mechanisms that help reduce its adverse impact.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1195-1206"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risky roads: Unraveling used electronic vehicle resistance from the Perspective of social amplification of risk theory","authors":"Zhenya Tang ,&nbsp;Xueyan Dong ,&nbsp;Yuxin Tian ,&nbsp;Jianliang Hao ,&nbsp;Merrill Warkentin","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the factors contributing to consumer resistance toward used electric vehicles (EVs) through the lens of social amplification of risk theory. Despite the rapid growth in new EV sales, adoption of used EVs remains limited, largely due to consumer concerns around various perceived risks. Using an online survey to collect data from 409 potential used EV buyers in China, we examine how different risk dimensions, such as image risk, technological obsolescence risk, financial risk (low resale value), and performance risk, influence consumers’ resistance to used EVs. Additionally, we explore EV knowledge and negative word-of-mouth as antecedents to perceived risk, aligning with social amplification of risk theory to understand how these factors intensify risk perceptions. We used structural equation modeling to analyze the data. The results supported 11 out of 12 hypotheses, confirming that higher EV knowledge and exposure to negative word-of-mouth amplify perceived risks, which in turn significantly increase resistance to used EV adoption. This study offers theoretical and practical implications for addressing consumer hesitance and fostering greater acceptance within the used EV market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1179-1194"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards a model for understanding the pedestrian behaviours of older adults with and without cognitive impairment: A systematic review","authors":"Ann Carrigan ,&nbsp;Thomas B. McGuckian ,&nbsp;Prasannah Prabhakharan ,&nbsp;Nishat Tasnim ,&nbsp;Georgina McCracken ,&nbsp;Joanne M. Bennett","doi":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Older pedestrians are over-represented in crash statistics and those with cognitive impairment (CI) are potentially at greater risk. Prior research has focused on examining individual pedestrian behaviours, and to date there has been no mapping of the stages of behaviour that pedestrian engage in when crossing the road. This study had two aims; firstly to map the pedestrian behaviours of older adults and use this to develop a theoretical understanding of the stages of street crossing, and secondly to better understand the role that key demographic characteristics including age, sex and cognitive status have on the pattern of street crossing behaviours for older adults. Published studies available on PsycINFO, Medline, and Scopus up to April 2024 were included in the review. Studies included a measure of pedestrian behaviour and participants over the age of 60 years. Forty studies met the inclusion criteria, and they examined 11 different behaviours. These mapped on to three stages of street crossing: the approach, step off, and crossing. There was evidence that older adults, particularly females, are much more cautious at the approach stage than younger adults, however they are more unsafe during the step off and crossing stages. A small amount of evidence shows that older pedestrians with CI had poorer safety across all three stages than those without CI. Speaking a common language for the stages of street crossing is beneficial for identifying areas to target improvements. There are opportunities for targeted training and practical road designs to be implemented to improve older adult pedestrian safety. Further research to examine other predictors of pedestrian behaviours beyond demographic factors, such as, perceptual, cognitive, and physical predictors of safe road crossing would be beneficial.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48355,"journal":{"name":"Transportation Research Part F-Traffic Psychology and Behaviour","volume":"114 ","pages":"Pages 1142-1160"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144662919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}