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Societal trends, mobility behaviour and sustainable transport in Europe and North America: the European Union network STELLA

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This contribution introduces the work of the European Union network Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons to America (STELLA) in the first section and examines especially social and behavioural aspects of sustainable transport from a transatlantic perspective in the second section. One of the most significant societal trends, the ageing of societies, is surveyed and its implications for mobility behaviour are shown. The sustainability of this behaviour is considered along with constraints and drivers of this behaviour in Europe and North America. The contribution takes up relevant policy issues and concludes with a discussion of a transatlantic research agenda on social and behavioural aspects of sustainable transport especially concerning the elderly.

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  1. Center for Evaluation and Methods, Römerstrasse 164, 53117, Bonn, Germany

    Georg Rudinger

  2. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 111 Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Drive, Champaign, IL 61820, USA

    Kieran Donaghy

  3. Impuls GmbH, c/o Psychological Institute, University of Bonn, Römerstrasse 164, 53117, Bonn, Germany

    Stefan Poppelreuter

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Rudinger, G., Donaghy, K. & Poppelreuter, S. Societal trends, mobility behaviour and sustainable transport in Europe and North America: the European Union network STELLA. Eur J Ageing 1, 95–101 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-004-0009-y

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