Every day, many people travel between their place of residence
and their place of work - they commute. Commuting behavior depends on many factors, which the ConPolicy Institute has investigated and now published together with other partners in the MOBITAT 2050 project.
Commuter behavior depends not only on the choice of where to work, but also on the choices of where to live and means of transportation. The MOBITAT project showed that choosing where to live is the important factor for people and that the commute is usually accepted as a result.
The commute itself is strongly influenced by habits. Nudging and other soft measures that target well-known behavioral tendencies can usefully support hard measures from infrastructure and political framework conditions and motivate new or more sustainable behaviors.
However, the MOBITAT 2050 experiments showed that behavior-based interventions only have an effect if the other framework conditions are already attractive - i.e. in particular if they are affordable and easily accessible.
Key results have now been published in a compact handbook.
Further information can be found on the project website.