Communicating transportation carbon dioxide information: Does gender impact behavioral response?

General concern and knowledge on climate change have been increasingly studied over the past decade. Gender differences have been found for general environmental concern and knowledge, but there are mixed findings with respect to climate change. In transportation, research has examined potential relations between environmental attitudes and transportation behavior, with mixed findings as well. Recently, the use of carbon dioxide (CO₂ ) emissions information to influence choice has been tested, with women being found to be willing to pay more to reduce their personal impacts, suggesting that women are either more willing to change or that their response to information on climate change is stronger. However, those studies used CO₂ mass and studies that examined understanding of CO₂ information as a mass have found that people struggle to understand it. If concern and knowledge about climate change differ amongst individuals, then, according to theories such as the Transtheoretical Model, the type of information used to motivate choices is likely important. Using a unique data set (n = 236) it is possible to take a first look at how gender might affect concern, knowledge, and action in terms of transportation and climate change. Further, it is also possible to examine behavioral responses to transportation climate change information. Finally, an empirical analysis is conducted of the effect of how the information is presented might differ by gender. Thus, this work aims to investigate whether gender differences might contribute to the explanation of individual behavioral responses (from concern to action) in a transportation climate change context.

• Record URL:
  http://wiit-paris2014.sciencesconf.org/conference/wiit-paris2014/pages/Proceedings_The_5th_International_Conference_on_WIiT_1.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Federation Internationale De L'Automobile (FIA)

  8 Place de la Concorde
  Paris,   France 

  Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)

  14-20 bd Newton, Cité Descartes, Champs su Marne
  77447 Marne la Vallée,   France  Cedex 2

  Department of Transportation

  Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Waygood, Owen
  • Avineri, Erel
• Conference:
  • 5th International Conference on Women's Issues in Transportation
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2014-4-14 to 2014-4-16
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 163-174
• Monograph Title: Women's Issues in Transportation 5th International Conference. Proceedings: Bridging the Gap

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acceptance; Attitudes; Behavior; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Environmental impacts; Gender; Transportation
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01553510
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 17 2015 10:32AM