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According to recent research, the foreign-born in the United States make use of carpools, transit, biking and walking at much higher rates than US-born persons during their first years in the country. This paper takes a new look at the travel behavior of immigrants by using data from New Jersey and examining the differences among the foreign-born from the populous immigrant sending countries: India, the Philippines, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Korea. Previous research has tended to categorize immigrants by large geographic sending regions and/or race/ethnicity but these groupings gloss over the important differences that exist across sending countries. The results of this study find support and contradictions of the previous research. Some immigrant populations in New Jersey appear to follow the expected path: high rates of carpool, transit and walking/biking during their first years in the US giving way to drive alone rates that are comparable to the US-born in later years. However, not all immigrant populations follow this trajectory. This analysis finds that travel behavior of Korean-born residents in New Jersey changes little during their years in the US, their rate of drive alone is comparable to US-born and they use transit at lower rates than the US-born.

01147878

10-3043

English

17p

2010

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures; Maps; References (23) ; Tables (4)

Bicycling; Data collection; Immigrants; Mode choice; Public transit; Social factors; Travel behavior; Walking; Work trips

New Jersey

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-3043

TRIS, TRB

Jan 25 2010 11:30AM