THE ATTITUDES OF HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT CARS TO PRESENT-DAY PUBLIC TRANSPORT

BILLOESA HUSHAALLS ATTITYD TILL DAGENS KOLLEKTIVTRAFIK

Households which cannot or will not use a car to travel have lately received greater attention in the planning of traffic in general and public transport in particular. It has also been found that this category is numerically larger than had been thought. It has been found in surveys that (1) those without cars are more satisfied with the design of local public transport than those with cars; (2) 6 out of 10 people in households without cars thought public transport should have a prior claim to public resources, but only 4 out of 10 believed this would happen; (3) irrespective of the type of household, one third of those asked considered that improvements in public transport should be financed by increased taxation; (4) in both categories, dissatisfaction with public transport centred on service frequency, placing of routes and fares. Old age pensioners would prefer shorter distances to stops, ease of getting on and off, access to seats, and no interchanges. Young people wish to have greater frequency and later services. Both old and young had a negative attitude towards cars in town centres. /TRRL/

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  Svenska Vag-Och Vattenbyggaren Riksforband

  Regeringsgaten 98
  S-11139 Stockholm,   Sweden 

  Svenska Vag-Och Vattenbyggaren Riksforband

  Regeringsgaten 98
  S-11139 Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Andreason, S
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 45-46
• Serial:
  • Vag-Och Vattenbyggaren
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Svenska Vag-Och Vattenbyggaren Riksforband
  • ISSN: 0042-2177

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Highway planning; Households; Level of service; Motor vehicles; Ownership; Public transit; Traffic
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic planning
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00147453
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Traffic Research Institute
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1981 12:00AM