幸福感在交通政策中的作用

幸福感、生活质量和幸福正逐渐影响众多不同领域,例如经济、国家标准和公共健康。尽管心理幸福感的重要性日益受到重视,但却鲜有人关注交通系统对生活满意度的影响。首先,探讨幸福感在交通政策中所发挥的作用,并阐述幸福感对未来交通政策的启发作用。其次,回顾心理学文献,提出一个假设的模型即交通会通过提高重要生活领域的可达性或者物质环境的机动性及外部性从而对生活满意度产生间接或直接影响。对交通领域的初步研究为该模型提供了支持。最后,阐述政策建议和可使用该框架进行研究的领域。

The Role of Wel-Being in Transport Policy

Well-being, quality of life and happiness are gradually making their way into such diverse areas as economics, national benchmarking and public health. Yet despite this growing emphasis on the impor-tance of psychological well-being, there is little attention devoted to how the transport system can influ-ence life satisfaction. This paper explores the role that well-being currently plays in transport policy and scopes out its potential to inform transport policy in future. Based on a review of the psychological litera-ture, a model is proposed that hypothesises that transport influences life satisfaction indirectly through fa-cilitating access to important life domains and directly through physical mobility and externalities. Prelimi-nary studies in transport provide support for this model. Policy implications are discussed and areas of fu-ture research using this framework are suggested.