Development of psychometric scales to evaluate the attitude towards risk, environmentalism and variety seeking of public transport users

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In the transport modelling community, there is a growing consensus that attitudes of travellers have to be taken into account. Though it is not possible to measure attitudes directly, psychometric scales can be used as indicators. The paper presents psychometric scales for environmentalism and variety-seeking that were tested in a mail-back survey and included in a latent variable mode choice model.