In line with scholarly and practitioner efforts to encourage and facilitate sustainable mobility by reducing dependence on private cars, this study aims to better understand voluntarily carless families. In particular, it focuses on two questions. First, what motivates voluntarily carless households? Second, what personal practices facilitate carless family mobility? Focusing on outliers, in this case, middle-class Israeli families with children who chose a carless lifestyle enables the identification of previously unobserved factors that affect the choice to live without a car. Based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with carless families (N = 27), this study offers two main contributions. First, it identifies overlooked variables, such as fear of driving and healthy lifestyle preferences, that may explain household car ownership. Second, it uncovers both instrumental practices and emotional resolutions as facilitating a voluntarily carless lifestyle.

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了解自愿无车：为什么异常值很重要


与学术界和从业者通过减少对私家车的依赖来鼓励和促进可持续出行的努力一致，本研究旨在更好地了解自愿无车家庭。特别地，它侧重于两个问题。首先，是什么促使自愿无车家庭？其次，哪些个人做法促进了无车家庭出行？关注异常值，在这种情况下，有孩子的以色列中产阶级家庭选择了无车生活方式，从而能够识别以前未观察到的影响选择无车生活的因素。基于对无车家庭 （N = 27） 的深入半结构式访谈，本研究提供了两个主要贡献。首先，它确定了被忽视的变量，例如对驾驶的恐惧和健康的生活方式偏好，这些变量可以解释家庭拥有汽车的原因。其次，它揭示了工具性实践和情感解决方案都促进了自愿无车的生活方式。