Social Interaction

Jun 25 2007

Stress and Tension Caused by Transportation

How Does Transportation Create Stress and Tension?

Ocean Park Trolley, Los Angeles Transportation-related stress-tension generated by declining transit service, increased traffic noise, highway traffic congestion, transit overcrowding, and increased travel time-may contribute to the "psychic overload" suggested by Milgram (1970)... read more »

May 28 2007

Promoting a Sense of Identity - Autonomy and Control

How Does A Sense of Identity for Public Transportation Create Autonomy and Control?

Greem Trolley, Washington, D.C. As part of the environment and a key mediator between that environment and the individual, urban transportation can affect and be affected by its users' desires for autonomy and control. Urban travelers favor transportation systems that serve these desires (Brunner, 1966, 100; cited in Yago, 1983)... read more »

Apr 30 2007

Private Transport Creates Spatial Limits to Mobility

How Does Private Transport Create Spatial Limits to Mobility?

Yellow Trolley, Los Angeles Among those with access to urban transportation, inequities appear in time spent in work-related travel. Although shifts in transportation technology towards private transportation and policies supporting that trend promised the universal destruction of the barriers of space through decreased travel time, they created instead land-use patterns that imposed new spatial limits to mobility... read more »