Examining the adaptation process of people’s behavioral response to high gasoline costs

摘要: Many travel demand management policies are not effective in addressing traffic congestion. Policy makers assume people would actively respond to the that minimize social costs, but might behave a way their own costs — costminimization hypothesis. The hypothesis implies tend adopt lower-cost travel-related strategies, before moving higher-cost ones if dissatisfaction persists. Travel behaviour studies have yet substantiate This study conducted several statistical tests using 2008–2009 data Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. analysis on adoption of different groups strategies offer supportive evidence for hypothesis: adoptions interdependent. An examination time confirms first seek mitigation from low-cost mediumor high-cost strategies. Overall, this substantiates discrepancy between policy assumptions and people’s behavior responses, which helps explain limited effectiveness policies.