Journal
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART D-TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 272-279Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2009.02.003
Keywords
Vehicle ownership; Environmental attitudes; Environmental knowledge; Knowledge-attitudes-behavior
Funding
- University of California Transportation Center
- US Department of Transportation's Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship program
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Using responses to a knowledge-attitudes-behavior questionnaire administered in the Sacramento, California metropolitan region, the effects of environmental knowledge and environmental attitudes on the numbers and types of vehicles owned per household, annual vehicle miles traveled, and fuel consumption are assessed. The results indicate that households with pro-environmental attitudes own fewer and more fuel-efficient vehicles, drive them less, and consequently consume less fuel than do the households of respondents without pro-environmental attitudes. The households of respondents who know more about the environmental impacts of owning and using vehicles own more fuel-efficient vehicles, but environmental knowledge is not statistically significant in relation to numbers of vehicles owned, miles driven, or fuel consumption. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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