Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis

Chatterjee, Kiron; Goodwin, Phil; Schwanen, Tim; Clark, Ben; Jain, Juliet; Melia, Steven; Middleton, Jennifer; Plyushteva, Anna; Ricci, Miriam; Santos, Georgina; Stokes, Gordon

Abstract

Young adults in Great Britain and other countries are driving less now than young adults did in the early 1990s. The Department for Transport (DfT) commissioned the Centre for Transport and Society (UWE, Bristol) and the Transport Studies Unit (University of Oxford) to carry out a systematic assessment of available evidence on the subject, both by review of UK and overseas published literature, and by new secondary analysis of existing UK data sets. The study sought to address the questions:
In what ways have changes in young people’s social and economic conditions, and lifestyles and attitudes impacted on their travel behaviour? How might those drivers, or other anticipated changes, be expected to impact their future travel demand?

The evidence has been evaluated on the basis of an extensive review of both transport-specific and wider social science literature in the UK (and other countries where, despite national differences, the trends show many similar patterns), and new analysis of data from the National Travel Survey (NTS) (1995-2014), the Census (2001 and 2011) and Understanding Society (five waves from 2009/10 to 2013/14).

Citation

Chatterjee, K., Goodwin, P., Schwanen, T., Clark, B., Jain, J., Melia, S., …Stokes, G. (2018). Young people’s travel – What’s changed and why? Review and analysis

• Report Type: Project Report
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2018
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: young people, young adults, travel behavior, urbanisation, car ownership, licence-holding
• Publisher URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/young-peoples-travel-whats-changed-and-why