Melbourne: A study claims that People of India, China and other Asian countries are reluctant to use public transport. The study urges urban planners to find ways to overcome this "negative attitude".

According to the study, published in the Journal of Transport Geography, found that public transport usage had developed "a very strong and negative attitude" in India and China.

Dorina Pojani of UQ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences said, "On average, professional, educated households in Anglo and Nordic countries are wealthier, so one would expect that they would be more attached to cars and more negative towards public transport .But what we found is that they were actually more indifferent.”

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Poojani further addedm "By contrast, professionals in China and India -- who haven't experienced car ownership en masse for that long -- have already developed very strong and negative attitudes towards public transport."

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Pojani said that Changing thinking around public transport can help us build a brighter future for all."

The research says that changing these attitudes is critical to develop well-used, sustainable public transport systems across the globe