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The importance of lifestyle in predicting individual and groups of individuals’ behaviours has been widely recognized across various fields, including transport studies, urban planning, and public health. Research on mobility lifestyles aims to inform interventions and policies that promote sustainable and health-conscious transportation choices in cities. Lifestyles shape mobility and transportation routines, influencing physical activity levels and the prevalence of certain health conditions. However, despite its significance, there is no formally agreed-upon definition, theoretical framework, or standardized methodology for measuring mobility lifestyles or policies/interventions that can encourage more sustainable/healthy lifestyles.
This study conducts a systematic literature review to examine the evolution of mobility lifestyle research, identifying key trends in definitions, measurement approaches, and research themes. The review highlights a shift from traditional transport mode choice analysis to a more holistic approach integrating underlying sociocultural, behavioural and psychological dimensions. Additionally, there is growing recognition of how mobility lifestyles intersect with broader issues of social equity and environmental justice including individual, social, and environmental barriers. Methodologically, studies have moved beyond simple segmentation approaches with sociodemographic data to include environmental and travel attitudes and residential neighbourhood preferences, the role of constraints, and big data analytics (to identify activity patterns). Despite these advancements, challenges remain in establishing a unified conceptual framework and integrating measurement techniques across different fields. This review identifies critical gaps in mobility lifestyle research and conceptualisation and calls for more interdisciplinary approaches that integrate environmental psychology, environmental justice, advancements in mobility data analytics, and co-creative approaches is research and policy/intervention design to understand lifestyle and foster equitable and sustainable urban mobility transitions.
| Keywords | lifestyle, behaviour change, travel behaviour, mobility transitions, environmental psychology, justice |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
