Transportation carbon emission information: the effect of format on behavioural intention

Waygood, E.O.D; Avineri, Erel

Abstract

Climate change is a global problem and transportation contributes to it. In response, CO2 information on transport is being provided to the public to aid with informed decision-making. Including CO2 mass in choice experiments has found that it could influence choice, however, other research suggests that CO2 presented as mass is not fully understood and that the presentation of CO2 information affects interpretation. If presentation can affect understanding and interpretation, might it then affect choice? The problem with presentation is likely one of information content versus information context. CO2 mass is information content; without information context, it would be difficult to interpret the appropriateness of
the mass. Context can highlight some aspect of the information to influence choice. That context could relate the CO2 mass to a societal goal. It could aid with analytical decision-making, or it could influence through emotion. A presentation format that provides context to information content is here termed a contextualized format. This research examined how people’s behavioural intention responses varied by three different contextualized formats
and the information content format of simply CO2 mass.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 2012 IATBR Conference
• Start Date: Jul 16, 2012
• End Date: Jul 20, 2012
• Publication Date: Jul 16, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 7, 2019
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: travel behaviour, carbon emissions
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/945398
• Publisher URL: http://iatbr.weebly.com/
• Additional Information: Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : 2012 IATBR Conference