What Affects Millennials’ Mobility? PART II: The Impact of Residential Location, Individual Preferences and Lifestyles on Young Adults’ Travel Behavior in California

Giovanni Circella, Farzad Alemi, Kate Tiedeman, Rosaria M Berliner, Yongsung Lee, Lew Fulton, Patricia Mokhtarian and Susan Handy

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Abstract: Young adults (“millennials”, or members of “Generation Y”) are increasingly reported to have different lifestyles and travel behavior from previous generations at the same stage in life. They postpone the time at which they obtain a driver’s license, often choose not to own a car, drive less if they own one, and use alternative non-motorized means of transportation more often. Several explanations have been proposed to explain the behaviors of millennials, including their preference for urban locations closer to the vibrant parts of a city, changes in household composition, and the substitution of travel for work and socializing with telecommuting and social media. However, research in this area has been limited by a lack of comprehensive data on the factors affecting millennials’ residential location and travel choices (e.g. information about individual attitudes, lifestyles and adoption of shared mobility is not available in the U.S. National Household Travel Survey and most regional household travel surveys). View the NCST Project Webpage

Keywords: Social and Behavioral Sciences; Automobile ownership; Mode choice; Residential location; Statistical analysis; Surveys; Travel behavior; Travel patterns; Vehicle miles of travel; Young adults (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-03-01
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