{"id":1484,"date":"2013-02-04T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2013-02-04T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:37:00","slug":"why-people-choose-cars-even-when-mass-transit-would-serve-them-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/why-people-choose-cars-even-when-mass-transit-would-serve-them-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Why People Choose Cars, Even When Mass Transit Would Serve Them Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">Original article by Eric Jaffe at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2013\/02\/why-people-chose-cars-even-when-metro-would-be-faster\/4566\/\"> The Atlantic Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People don&#8217;t always make rational decisions. The entire field of behavioral economics, with all its colorfully named biases and heuristics, is based on our irrationality.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead and add cars to the illogical list too. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0967070X12001680\">upcoming paper<\/a> in <em>Transport Policy<\/em>, a group of Italian researchers report that people show an irrational bias toward automobiles \u2014 they call it the &#8220;car effect.&#8221; Instead of considering all travel modes and choosing the one that saves the most time and money, people prefer to drive even when it&#8217;s not the best objective option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2013\/02\/why-people-chose-cars-even-when-metro-would-be-faster\/4566\/\">Continued at original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article by Eric Jaffe at The Atlantic Cities People don&#8217;t always make rational decisions. The entire field of behavioral economics, with all its colorfully named biases and heuristics, is based on our irrationality. Go ahead and add cars to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/why-people-choose-cars-even-when-mass-transit-would-serve-them-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6846,6851,6849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-ownership","category-economics","category-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}