ABSTRACT
In today’s society, for reasons ranging from the increase in demand for employees’ ¦exibilityin the labor market to the decline of traditional household travel patterns, private vehicles play adominant role in travel behavior. In 2004, 23% of the world’s energy-related greenhouse gas emissions were from the transport sector and private vehicles contributed 44% to that share. The need for user-friendly transit systems has become crucial with road transport contributing signicantly toward climate change. The intergovernmental panel on climate change recommended modal shift from private vehicles to sustainable transport to be akey climate change mitigation strategy. In March 14, 2008, the Transportation Research Board released a research problem statement titled What Do Passengers Want, What Do Passengers Need? The statement discussed that little is known regarding what passengers want, need, or expect from intermodal facilities. Both the motivation to change and the means to facilitate such change, by the individual overcoming the perceived barriers, are required for altering travel behavior. The following article discusses sustainable travel behavior as a new era for passenger transport.
