PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Urban Sprawl, Attitude Change, Norm (Social)
14 Sep 2020
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Modern mobility (or rather, the dominance of the car?) Mostly travelling by cars (62% of trips, 78% of distance); walking (25 % of trips, % of distance) Car ownership 77% households own at least one car! Women travel more often, but men travel further distances. Change in transport 1950 mostly local bus services; 2014 cars. Global motor vehicle production is slowly moving mainly to developing countries, such as china, whereas production in the usa/uk is lowered shift in production. Private car registration/sales relatively stable in the uk/usa/eu for the past few years but a big increase in china and india (6 fold increase) Air travel rising in developed countries, the rich and middle class but lower class and the poor still don"t have access. Global shipping increase in the goods being transported. = many societies in the world have the car as the dominant mode of travel (infrastructure is often designed around having access to the car)
