Young people’s travel: what’s changed and why? Review and analysis

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) 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: 1. In what ways have changes in young people’s social and economic conditions, and lifestyles and attitudes impacted on their travel behaviour? 2. How might those drivers, or other anticipated changes, be expected to impact their future travel demand? This report sets out the main results obtained from the study. Altogether, 272 published references were identified, by search engines and direct correspondence with researchers working in the field, in the initial search stage. Three large data sets were analysed as part of the secondary analysis stage. Appendix A summarises the review methodology. ‘Young people’ were defined for the purposes of this study as those aged 17-29. It was also important to consider what happens to young people as they reach 30 to see if there was any evidence that differences persist over time as they get older. The original motivation for the study was the observation of changes in car use, and much of the available evidence focuses on this, but consideration is also given as far as practical to changes in public transport use, walking, cycling and total travel. The period considered was from 1990 to the present day.

• Record URL:
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/young-peoples-travel-whats-changed-and-why
• Corporate Authors:

  Department for Transport

  London,   United Kingdom 
• Authors:
  • CHATTERJEE, K
  • GOODWIN, P
  • Schwanen, T
  • Clark, B
  • Jain, J
  • MELIA, S
  • MIDDLETON, J
  • Plyushteva, A
  • Ricci, M
  • Santos, G
  • Stokes, G
• Publication Date: 2018-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 72p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Modal split; Travel behavior; Travel demand; Young adults
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ATRI Terms: Attitude; Modal split; Systematic review; Travel behaviour; Travel demand; Young person
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01660750
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 20 2018 10:42AM