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Title:

Are Changed Living Arrangements Influencing Youth Driver License Decline?

Accession Number:

01475674

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Young people in the developed world are less likely to hold a drivers license and, if they can drive, they are driving less. This is a remarkable trend which is not well understood. This paper is an empirical analysis exploring how changes in youth living arrangements, notably living with parents and postponement of child-rearing, influence youth driver licensing. A binary logistic regression model of travel survey data (1994 to 2009) for Melbourne, Australia is used to explore these issues. Results demonstrate a statistically significant link between 24-30 year olds living with parents and reduced licensing. Some 30% of this age group lived with parents and this has been trending upwards in Australian and international data. In addition, 24-30 year olds living independently with children are more likely to have a driver license. Between 14% and 21% of this age group lived independently with children and trend data shows this is in decline. Together it is theorised that these changes in living arrangements may be influential in overall licensing decline rates. Analysis also established that these living arrangements were not significant predictors of licensing rates for 18 to 23 year olds, suggesting that in this age group living with parents/children was less important than access to a household car, gender, age and employment status. Living independently with children was unlikely to be a significant influence with this group as less than 2% fell into this category. The paper considers implications of findings for policy and opportunities for future research.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD20 Social and Economic Factors of Transportation.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-1284

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Delbosc, Alexa
Currie, Graham

Pagination:

10p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Melbourne (Australia)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-1284

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:21PM