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The authors examine changes in travel behavior in the Philadelphia region between 2000 and 2012. The authors use two household regional travel surveys over a decade apart, the 2000 and 2012 surveys, from the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). Previous research, at the national scale, has highlighted changes among the Millennial cohort. The authors use these two regional datasets to examine the changing travel behavior among Millennials and to put these changes in context by comparing them with changes among other social groups of interest: women and minorities. The authorsfind that the travel behavior of young people did not change substantially between 2000 and 2012. Where there are changes, these pale in comparison to the changes among women and black residents. And finally, the authors find that the built environment factors appear to influence travel more in 2012 than in 2000. Taken together, the authors' findings fit an overarching narrative about urban gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty, rather than a story of Millennials’ changing travel behavior.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE70 Standing Committee on Women's Issues in Transportation. Alternate title: The Philadelphia Story: Age, Race, Gender, and Changing Travel Trends

18-01042

English

17p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Age; Built environment; Females; Gender; Low income groups; Minorities; Race; Travel behavior; Travel surveys; Urban renewal; Young adults

Millennials

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)

Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General)

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-01042

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:15AM