Abstract

Modern life requires increasingly complex and diverse travel behavior. We attend multiple destinations for multiple purposes, and trips are chained together as households negotiate the demands and opportunities presented by cities. To compete with the autonomy and flexibility of the private car, a successful public transport system should accommodate this complexity. Drawing from a series of data sources, this paper applies a discourse analysis to examine perspectives on the implementation of a public transport policy designed to accommodate one specific, but surprisingly common, user need: travel with dogs. In 2015, A bespoke survey of 1250 dog-owners in Sydney, Australia revealed a high level of car use for dog-related trips. This reflects, in part, the fact that dogs are prohibited on the public transport network in the case study city. Recognizing that any change to this policy requires an evidence base of community sentiment, a further survey (n = 1091) of both dog and non-dog owners was conducted in 2017 to assess attitudes to dogs on public transport. Over 20 percent of the representative sample opposed apolicy change. In 2019, a discourse analysis was conducted on 163 comments to an article on dogs on public transport published on the academic news site, The Conversation. Several themes emerged, extending from concerns about cleanliness, to a basic distrust of dog owners. These three data sources, in combination, establish both the need for change and the nature of resistance to change, revealing the complexity of advocating for potentially positive developments in transport policy.

摘要

现代生活需要越来越复杂和多样化的旅行行为。我们出于多种目的前往多个目的地，当家庭协商城市提供的需求和机会时，旅行被链接在一起。为了与私家车的自主性和灵活性竞争，一个成功的公共交通系统应该适应这种复杂性。本文从一系列数据源中提取，运用话语分析来审视公共交通政策实施的观点，该政策旨在满足一个特定但令人惊讶的普遍用户需求：带狗旅行。2015 年，一项针对澳大利亚悉尼 1250 名狗主人的定制调查显示，与狗相关的旅行中使用汽车的比例很高。这部分反映了在案例研究城市的公共交通网络中禁止狗进入的事实。n =  1091) 于 2017 年对狗和非狗主人进行了评估，以评估对公共交通工具上的狗的态度。超过 20% 的代表性样本反对改变政策。2019年，对学术新闻网站The Conversation上发表的一篇关于公共交通工具上的狗的文章的163条评论进行了话语分析。出现了几个主题，从对清洁的担忧延伸到对狗主人的基本不信任。这三个数据源结合起来确定了变革的必要性和抵制变革的性质，揭示了倡导交通政策潜在积极发展的复杂性。