INTEGRATING RESEARCH ON PUBLIC ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR INTO ENERGY CONTINGENCY PLANNING

As part of the development of a contingency plan for oil shortages, the Ontario Ministry of Energy undertook a study to identify and develop research methodologies that could be used before, during, and after a shortage to monitor public attitudes and behavior. The study consisted of an information needs assessment, methodology development, and implementation plan. The needs assessment was based on contingency management experience in Ontaroio and elsewhere, and on a shortage simulation session in which the utility of hypothetical research results was evaluated. Methodological development involved the review and modification of existing survey methods with which public response to a shortage and demand restraint interventions could be assessed. These included a home interview survey and an interview-game method--both directed at households and with a major emphasis on gasoline consumption--and a telephone survey directed at individual consumers. In addition, a brief driver interview conducted in service stations was developed to monitor problems at the retail level. The study further specifies the use of both public and expert panels to provide information when contingency events make more formal research methods difficult to implement, and proposes a design for an organized network of key informers to keep emergency operations staff up to date. These methodologies are not all active at the same time. The implementation plan assigns different sets of methods to six shortage stages for evolving contingencies, and to four stages for shock contingencies.

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• Authors:
  • Lee-Gosselin, Martin E H
  • Clinton, Kathryn M
• Publication Date: 1987

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 37-45
• Monograph Title: Transportation energy
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1155
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Behavior; Contingency planning; Data collection; Driver rehabilitation; Energy; Fuel consumption; Fuels; Households; Implementation; Interviewing; Methodology; Needs assessment; Supply; Surveys
• Uncontrolled Terms: Intervention
• Old TRIS Terms: Fuel shortage
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00475989
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309046629
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 30 1988 12:00AM