Sustainable Transport Policy: The Contribution from Behavioural Scientists

Linda Steg and Gerard Tertoolen

Public Money & Management, 1999, vol. 19, issue 1, 63-69

Abstract: Publication of the UK Government’s White Paper on Transport, in July 1998, has raised public awareness of the problems associated with widespread car use. The authors argue that these problems, which largely result from the aggregated choices and behaviour of many individual car uses, could be mitigated if the main determinants of car use and the underlying behavioural mechanisms were better understood. This article examines six strategies for changing social behaviour, and some important conditions for reducing car use. Examples are presented of how the insights gained can be applied in practice.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00154

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