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When it comes to changing driver behaviour is it smarter to offers carrot or to wield a stick?

Smarter travel choices certainly work, if you remove parking

Steve Melia
01 April 2017
Steve Melia
Steve Melia

 

‘Smarter choices’ have been in the news again recently. The Behavioural Insight Team reported that several ‘low-cost behaviour change interventions’ designed to reduce commuting to Heathrow Airport made no measurable difference. Their comments on evaluation methods (“don’t trust self-reported surveys”) have re-opened a long-running controversy: how do we know any of these measures actually work?

‘Smarter choices’ is a catch-all phrase,...

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