The Psychological Decision-Making Process Model of Giving up Driving under Parking Constraints from the Perspective of Sustainable Traffic

Pan Shuangli, Zheng Guijun and Chen Qun
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Pan Shuangli: School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China
Zheng Guijun: School of Business, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
Chen Qun: School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 17, 1-19

Abstract: Parking restrictions can affect the use of cars and become an effective means to promote the sustainable development of urban traffic. To understand the influencing factors of car owners giving up driving due to parking constraints, the research constructs a theoretical model of psychological decision process about giving up driving under parking constraints, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and taking the public transit perception as a mediating variable, considering psychological factors. The empirical data were used to verify and modify the model by the Structural Equation Model (SEM) method, and finally the model was determined. The result shows that the choice of travel mode under the constraint of parking berth is not only affected by individual social and economic attributes and travel mode characteristics, but also by psychological latent variables such as behavioral attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavior control, public transportation perception and behavior intention. The subjective norms of car owners about giving up driving have a positive effect on perceived behavioral control and behavioral attitude; perceived behavior control also has an effect on behavior attitude; the behavior attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavior control all have positive effects on the behavior intention of giving up driving due to parking constraints, among which public transit perception plays a positive adjustable intermediary role. The Integration of Choice and Latent Variable (ICLV) model considering psychological latent variables has a higher fitting degree to empirical data than the traditional Multinomial Logit (MNL) model. Based on the analysis results, some suggestions for auxiliary measures to implement the optimization strategy of parking supply are put forward.

Keywords: give up driving; parking constraints; psychological factors; theory of planned behavior; structural equation model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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