Explaining transit ridership: What has the evidence shown?

BD Taylor, CNY Fink - Transportation Letters, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
What explains transit ridership? The answer to this simple question is both obvious and
complex. Public transit systems carry large shares of person travel in older, larger …

What affects transit ridership? A dynamic analysis involving multiple factors, lags and asymmetric behaviour

C Chen, D Varley, J Chen - Urban Studies, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This study seeks to determine the relative impacts of various factors in affecting ridership, to
quantify their short-run and long-run effects, and to test the symmetry in ridership in …

Travel behavior of immigrants: An analysis of the 2001 National Household Transportation Survey

G Tal, S Handy - Transport Policy, 2010 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between travel behavior and
immigrant status. The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) allows us to explore the …

Getting by with a little help from my friends… and family: immigrants and carpooling

E Blumenberg, M Smart - Transportation, 2010 - Springer
While much of the scholarly literature on immigrants' travel focuses on transit use, the
newest arrivals to the United States make over twelve times as many trips by carpool as by …

Immigrants and travel demand in the United States: Implications for transportation policy and future research

DG Chatman, N Klein - Public Works Management & Policy, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Immigrants account for a majority of recent urban population growth in the United States,
and for much economic growth as well. This is expected to continue for the next several …

Moving in and moving around: immigrants, travel behavior, and implications for transport policy

E Blumenberg - Transportation Letters, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the size and growth of the immigrant population in the US, only a handful of scholars
have studied the travel behavior of immigrants and its impact on our nation's roads …

Travel behavior among Latino immigrants: The role of ethnic concentration and ethnic employment

CY Liu, G Painter - Journal of Planning Education and …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates the determinants of Latino immigrants' travel mode choices (auto
alone, carpool, transit, and other modes) from six different immigrant gateways: Atlanta …

Cycling culture and socialisation: modelling the effect of immigrant origin on cycling in Denmark and the Netherlands

S Haustein, M Kroesen, I Mulalic - Transportation, 2020 - Springer
This paper focusses on travel socialisation by examining the effect of immigrant origin on
cycling in two distinct European cycling cultures: Denmark and the Netherlands. Based on …

Ethnic diversity and transport poverty

SA Churchill - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
Transport poverty is a growing concern in many developed countries. However, research on
the determinants of transport poverty is relatively scant. We contribute to the debate on the …

The impact of migration background, ethnicity and social network dispersion on air and car travel in the UK

G Mattioli, J Scheiner - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
While there is a saturation of car mileage per head in developed countries, international air
travel has grown rapidly until 2020, making it crucial to better understand its drivers. An often …