The Impact of Residential Location, Lifestyles and Emerging Technologies on the Travel Behavior and Vehicle Ownership of Young Adults (“Millennials”) in California

To investigate this topic, this study builds on an existing National Center for Sustainable Transportation/California Department of Transportation (NCST/Caltrans) research project which funded an ambitious data collection on Millennials’ personal preferences, lifestyles, residential location, adoption of technology, car ownership, travel behavior (by different transportation modes) and future aspirations to purchase a vehicle, from a sample representative of the population of young adults (aged 18-34) and a control group comprising members of the previous Generation X (aged 35-50) in California. As part of this study, the project will analyze the collected data, integrate additional information available from other sources (e.g. the land use characteristics of where Millennials live), and develop statistical analyses of Millennials’ travel behavior, car ownership and future propensity towards mobility.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Department of Transportation

  Sacramento, CA  United States  95819

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Chursenoff, David

• Performing Organizations:

  Regents of the University of California, Davis

  Davis, CA  United States  95616

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Circella, Giovanni

• Start Date: 20150831
• Expected Completion Date: 20161230
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age groups; Automobile ownership; Data collection; Land use planning; Life styles; Mobility; Residential location; Statistical analysis; Travel behavior
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01620637
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: California Department of Transportation
• Files: UTC, RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 4 2017 10:57AM