attitudes

User Preferences of Bicycle Infrastructure

  • Principal Investigator Calvin Clark
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
This project used a survey in areas without a strong bicycling culture, with the intent to measure the preferences for cycling infrastructure among current and potential cyclists. Results could be useful in informing infrastructure investments.
Project Status
Complete

What drives the gap? Applying the Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition method to examine generational differences in transportation-related attitudes

Research Product Type
Associated Publication
Considerable recent work suggests that Millennials’ behaviors may be converging with those of Generation X as they enter later life stages, but few have investigated whether attitudes, which are often strong predictors of behavior, are undergoing the same convergence. In this study, the authors analyze the existing generational gap in four transportation-related attitudes and examine the differential effects of other characteristics, including life-stage variables, on these attitudinal gaps.

Zero Emission Vehicles and Consumer Preference: Toward an Understanding of Consumer Practices and Valuation Processes in the Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Market

  • Principal Investigator Jennifer TyreeHageman
  • University of California, Davis
This dissertation explores the matrix of political, economic, and cultural elements that combine to create a historically contingent context for the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market, and analyzes consumption within this context to offer a case study of consumer behavior in an emerging market.
Project Status
Complete