WORK-RELATED TRAVEL ACTIVITY AND THESYDNEY 2000 OLYMPIC GAMES: ALONGITUDINAL STUDY OF COMMUTERS’COPING STRATEGIES

摘要

The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was staged in September 2000 and absorbed a vastproportion of the available transport and logistics resources for a significant period of theyear. While there was potential for disruption to the transport system and road infrastructure,this did not eventuate. This paper firstly investigates commuter’s intentions to adjust theirwork and travel behaviour in the light of a major event. Secondly, since planningfor the impacts of travel during the Sydney Olympics will benefit from early advice onbehavioural intentions to specific coping strategies, it is desirable to identify how reliablebehavioural intentions are. A covariance structure model was specified to investigate thestructural relationships among work and travel intentions and the commuters’ context as wellas the relationships between commuters’ work and travel intentions and behavioural outcome.It was found that intentions to modify work and travel behaviour leading up to a major eventremained relatively stable over time. More importantly, early intentions have a significantimpact on actual behavioural outcome during a major event. This conclusion has implicationsfor promoting transport options as early as possible and for employer to put forward andsupport alternative modes of working to accommodate different patterns of travel to work andto the event.