Kyoto University · Social Sciences
Professor Jan‐Dirk Schmöcker's research lab focuses on sustainable urban mobility, with a strong emphasis on behavioral change, transport policy, and the role of technology in shaping travel decisions. The lab investigates how persuasive technologies and mobile applications can influence sustainable travel behavior, particularly among aging and disabled populations. It also explores socio-psychological factors—such as trust in government, perceived fairness, and attitudes toward vehicles—that affect the acceptance of coercive transport policies like road pricing. The lab combines quantitative methods, including statistical modeling and survey analysis, to inform evidence-based transport planning and policy design.
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This is an article from the journal, Transportation Research Record [© National Academy of Sciences]. It is also available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1924-02
Mobile phone applications to monitor and influence one's behavior are numerous. Most developed appear to be health applications, but in the past decade, “persuasive technology” has also been leveraged and applied to promote sustainable travel behavior. We discuss the health applications and review and evaluate existing behavior change support systems (BCSS) designed to promote sustainable travel behavior. We extract the persuasive features embedded in these systems and evaluate their persuasive
The aging of populations has implications for trip-making behavior and the demand for special transport services. The London Area Travel Survey 2001 is analyzed to establish the trip-making characteristics of elderly and disabled people. Ordinal probit models are fitted for all trips and for trips by four purposes (work, shopping, personal business, and recreational), with daily trip frequency as the latent variable. A log-linear model is used to analyze trip length. A distinction must be made b
Car and motorcycle ownership levels are increasing rapidly in southeast Asian developing countries, leading to unsustainable developments. In this article we focus on car ownership motivations in Bandung, Indonesia, where cars have become the main contributor to traffic congestion. We suggest that attitudes toward cars are important for explaining car ownership trends. Using data from 500 undergraduate students from one university in Bandung, this study constructs five factors regarding car perc
ABSTRACT Coercive policies, such as road pricing or environmental taxation, are policies of an authority that charges or restricts its subjects in order to protect or restore common goods. Studies have shown it is important to understand the acceptability of such policies to the general public to guarantee long-term success. Our analysis, based on a limited survey of British and Japanese students, investigates well-established psychological factors that determine acceptability of road pricing di
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