How childhood experiences affect travel behaviour differently across generations: an example of structural equation modelling in mobility biographies research

Objective factors such as price, travel time and speed have long dominated travel behaviour research. Only at the end of the 1990s with the reintroduction of attitude theory in travel behaviour research (Fujii and Gärling, 2003; Gärling et al., 1998), attention was also paid to subjective factors such as perceptions and attitudes. Since then, a growing number of studies combine objective and subjective factors to try and understand travel behaviour (e.g., Anable, 2005; Mokhtarian and Cao, 2008; Van Acker et al., 2011). Our wider understanding of the reasons for car ownership and use has shown the car is not simply a means of transportation but can evoke other feelings such as power and superiority (...)