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Generation next: The changing travel habits of
young people
Elizabeth Box
Head of Research
RAC Foundation
April 2015
Generation Next
• Driving mileage by 17-29 is on a downward trend (-30%), along with car passenger travel (-25%)
• 11-16 car passenger travel has increased (by 13%)
Changing Lifestyles of Young Drivers
• Significant, ongoing trends:
• Delayed transition to adulthood• Staying in education longer• Entering employment later• Later transition to residential independence,
partnership and parenthood.• Increased levels of education and female
employment• Greater licence holding amongst women.
Study background
• Berrington and Mikolai, University of Southampton• Demographers not transport researchers• Uses Understanding Society (incorporating British
Household Panel Survey)• 40k households in UK, longitudinal survey, enough data for
regression• Includes some transport questions• 17-34 yr olds’ driving and individual, household and local
area characteristics• Licence holding, miles driven, mode to work, difficulties in
commuting
Changing lifestyles of Young Drivers
• 65% of males aged 17–34 and 58% of females aged 17–34 held a full UK driving licence in 2009–10
• Most important predictors of licence-holding among men & women aged (17–34): • age• area type• level of education• individual income• living arrangements
• Other variables to have a significant association, net of other factors:• economic activity status • housing tenure
Changing Lifestyles of Young Drivers – Driving licence-holdingPredictors:
• age• area type• level of education• individual income• living arrangement• economic activity
status• housing tenure
Changing Lifestyles of Young Drivers – annual car mileagePredictors:
• age• whether or not you
drive to work• economic activity status• individual income• area type
Summary
• Social change is strongly linked with transport attitudes and behaviour
• Mobility changes have knock on consequences for the composition of drivers on the road, and hence their road safety profiles
• There is a changing world of young drivers, and their economic circumstances, which has implications for insurance, telematics, uptake of education courses and other road safety interventions
Elizabeth Box MA MSc MCIHT
THANK YOU
Elizabeth Box - Head of ResearchRAC Foundation89-91 Pall Mall,LONDON. SW1Y 5HS
Tel no: 020 7747 3489Email: [email protected]: www.racfoundation.org