Transportation is a main contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. For a sustainable transformation, consumers play a crucial role. While sustainability gains importance and is reflected in consumers' attitudes, consumers' behaviour does not always align with their sustainability attitudes - a discrepancy called the attitude behaviour gap. The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted people's daily lives and transport choices, potentially altering their attitude behaviour gap. Thus, the pandemic presents a unique opportunity to understand how crises and disruptions can lead to changes in the alignment between sustainable intentions and actions. Using local survey data from Germany, we identify socio-economic factors and transport infrastructure as key contributors to misalignments between attitudes and behaviour. Notably, during the pandemic, this gap widened, particularly among women and those with children, increasing inequalities among different socio-economic groups. This highlights the need for tailored policies to address the distinct mobility needs of these groups to allow them to act according to their attitudes and counteract increasing inequalities. Moreover, our findings underscore the importance of transitioning from individual motorized transport to public and more active modes of transport. This transition is particularly crucial in the German context, where levels of individual motorized transport are exceptionally high.

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差距拉大？来自德国的证据表明，新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 期间人们对交通的态度行为差距发生了变化


交通运输是全球温室气体排放的主要贡献者。对于可持续转型，消费者发挥着至关重要的作用。虽然可持续性变得越来越重要并反映在消费者的态度中，但消费者的行为并不总是与其可持续性态度一致——这种差异称为态度行为差距。 COVID-19 大流行严重扰乱了人们的日常生活和交通选择，可能会改变他们的态度行为差距。因此，这场大流行病提供了一个独特的机会，让我们了解危机和破坏如何导致可持续意图和行动之间的一致性发生变化。利用德国当地的调查数据，我们发现社会经济因素和交通基础设施是导致态度和行为不一致的关键因素。值得注意的是，在大流行期间，这种差距扩大了，特别是在妇女和有孩子的人中，从而加剧了不同社会经济群体之间的不平等。这突出表明需要制定量身定制的政策来满足这些群体独特的流动需求，使他们能够根据自己的态度采取行动并抵消日益加剧的不平等。此外，我们的研究结果强调了从个人机动交通过渡到公共和更积极的交通方式的重要性。这种转变在德国的背景下尤为重要，因为德国的个人机动交通水平异常高。